How Could You Disappear?

by AJIMAL

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‘How Could You Disappear?’ is the second release from AJIMAL's upcoming album, ‘As It Grows Dark / Light’, produced with Guy Massey and due for release Spring 2020 via Wow and Flutter Records.

The soaringly beautiful, yet sparse, single features a driving electronic rhythm with overlaid dreamy piano textures and examines the frailty of memory. AJIMAL aka Fran O’Hanlon said about the single “How Could You Disappear? is about memory and the idea of looking back on things that you might feel you could never forget, but which also inevitably warp and change with time. Memories are mostly lost, but they can also morph and swell into something completely different from the events that actually occurred. In the same way, some seemingly banal and insignificant things can persist for a lifetime. These can have a powerful impact on our subsequent behaviours, hopes and fears, for the most part in ways that we’re totally unaware of.”

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I'll remember you always
Precious things not yet forgotten
Like my first second skin
With my first jump into water
In that wild, blue embrace
And the dark bite of November, I remember,
As the wind whispered of fate

I’ll remember you always
Among the first of the surprises
In the summer of my spring
As a whistling adventure
As a song of foolish joy
And the rising bounce of green grass, as time passed,
As it lifted birthday boy

How could you disappear?

I'll remember you always
Until the end of the last ember
Till no one knows my name
As we crept into your bedroom
Let our fingers trace your sheets
With an air of still about you, that devout hue
As you drifted into peace

I'll remember you always
As one of few things best forgotten
Through a faded film of shame
In the eyes-locked lust of first love
With the thrill of what we’d found
As we clutched our sacred secret, swore to keep it
Swore to never make a sound

How could you disappear?

Every fateful celebration
Every painful souvenir
Every look of wide-eyed wonder
Every all-consuming fear

How could you disappear?

credits

released October 18, 2019
Written and performed by Fran O’Hanlon (AJIMAL)
Produced by Guy Massey and Fran O'Hanlon
Mixed by Guy Massey
Mastered by Matt Colton

Artwork by Drømsjel.

Released on Wow & Flutter Records
All rights reserved.
ⓟ & ©AJIMAL 2019.

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AJIMAL UK

“Soporific, pianistic folk...displaying a charmingly earnest approach.” The Fly

"A new benchmark for sensitive pop in 2013"

Ajimal is the solo project for Newcastle’s Fran O’Hanlon – a collaborative ‘in-ear experiment’ with the aim of writing about the interplay between ideas from music, medicine, art, ideas, literature, science and stories. ... more

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