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When We Were Children

from CHILDHOOD by AJIMAL

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    CHILDHOOD is the debut album from AJIMAL, featuring a cast of more than 50 musicians and themed around the concept of childhood. The album explores ideas of youth, potential and play through a mix of contemporary, classical, and field recordings.

    Heavyweight 12" vinyl as part of a limited 500 edition pressing. Includes 8-page printed lyric booklet featuring original artwork by Ernesto Artillo and full digital download.

    Recorded with friend and collaborator Mick Ross in various studios, churches, theatres and hospitals in the North East, the resulting album is a carefully constructed work of remarkable beauty. It is a bold debut that combines soaring orchestral grandeur with the quiet intimacies of creaking floorboards, foot scrapes and the breath of performers.

    Includes unlimited streaming of CHILDHOOD via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

Your black skin shone out
And your eyes hung in the dark
Like the full beams

When we stop, time stops
Because who will reset the clocks, if no one’s counting?
When we were children, we knew that life meant potential of dying
And pulling faces won’t stop you expiring

But your beauty is oh so sweet
And ever lasting

Remember worship
This was our parish
Where we were doomed to perish
Remember glances
And skinless eyes which would beg you to love them
Quivering thighs which would need you above them

But what will become of your body
When all of your beauty is gone?
Tell me what will become of your body
When it’s gone, gone, gone

And eyes screwed up tight
Lips which cling to a hand, “mercy, mercy!”
When we were children, we knew that one day we’d beg for devotion
We knew that beauty was always in motion
We knew that one day we’d bury our dear ones
We knew that one day we’d see love’s destruction

But your beauty is oh so brief
And never lasting

And you say,
“I have no answers to all these questions
I have no answers to your multitude of questions”

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from CHILDHOOD, released November 6, 2015

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“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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