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Night River Presents: The Magic Lantern.
A magically intimate micro concert featuring The Magic Lantern and hosted by DG Solaris.
The Magic Lantern is the moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, The Magic Lantern has released four full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.
His upcoming fifth album ?To Everything A Season? was written and recorded in the months following his daughters birth and his fathers death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says 'I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward' These songs are my attempt to make sense of this incredible time - ?A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted?.
The Magic Lantern's live show captures a rich emotional intimacy centred Jamie?s immediately arresting voice and devastating lyrics to craft songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience.
Don't miss your chance to see this fantastic act perform in the most intimate of venues. Only 30 seats available.
Doors 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please be punctual to ensure you have time to find a seat and get a drink.
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The Magic Lantern Biography
What can loss teach us about love and how do love’s many small acts give a life meaning?
These are some of the questions that have preoccupied me as I’ve been making my fourth album 'A Reckoning Bell' over the last eighteen months while trying to be a good husband and son, friend and colleague and helping to care for my Dad with Alzheimer's disease.
Making music has always been a way of working out what I think, but in the midst of this intensely emotional time, it has also been a raft when the ground has given way. But as much as music helps me, I don't make records for myself. I do it because I believe that music has a social function in allowing people to project themselves into and onto songs to come to know themselves and their own lives better. This belief gives me a sense of purpose and that is the spirit in which I offer this music to you, that it may be useful if it’s what you need.
As I’ve grown I’m finding there’s no bottom to the well of human experience, that it just gets deeper and more complex. 'Such is life' Ned Kelly is reported to have said at the end. But in my experience, the light always finds a crack to shine through and there is nothing more beautiful than that. The album's second single 'Blades of Grass' - a joyous song for a desperate time - is out now.
'A Reckoning Bell' will be released on 5 November followed by a full UK tour. Hope to see you on the road.
Big love
The Magic Lantern / Jamie x
Read MoreThese are some of the questions that have preoccupied me as I’ve been making my fourth album 'A Reckoning Bell' over the last eighteen months while trying to be a good husband and son, friend and colleague and helping to care for my Dad with Alzheimer's disease.
Making music has always been a way of working out what I think, but in the midst of this intensely emotional time, it has also been a raft when the ground has given way. But as much as music helps me, I don't make records for myself. I do it because I believe that music has a social function in allowing people to project themselves into and onto songs to come to know themselves and their own lives better. This belief gives me a sense of purpose and that is the spirit in which I offer this music to you, that it may be useful if it’s what you need.
As I’ve grown I’m finding there’s no bottom to the well of human experience, that it just gets deeper and more complex. 'Such is life' Ned Kelly is reported to have said at the end. But in my experience, the light always finds a crack to shine through and there is nothing more beautiful than that. The album's second single 'Blades of Grass' - a joyous song for a desperate time - is out now.
'A Reckoning Bell' will be released on 5 November followed by a full UK tour. Hope to see you on the road.
Big love
The Magic Lantern / Jamie x
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