The Magic Lantern Jamie Doe London 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. ‘Blades of Grass’ the second single from my upcoming fourth album is out now. Big love The Magic Lantern / Jamie x "Excellent, intriguing and compelling, a man to watch" -The Guardian "Something very, very special" - Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music "Gorgeous, beautiful, this stopped me in my tracks. Slightly surreal, in all the right ways" - Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 "Every now and again you come across a piece of music that will completely take your breath away. It might not be instant, but it will. The Magic Lantern’s ‘Holding Hands’ is one of those pieces of music. 8/10" - Fortitude Magazine "Creating something truly mesmerizing and incredibly unique. Jamie’s ability to combine jazz and folk into something ethereal and is undeniably spellbinding. Fans of Grizzly Bear and Chet Baker will feel at home here." - The Vinyl District www.the-magic-lantern.co.uk Contact: jamiefdoe@yahoo.com The Magic Lantern’s tracks 02 The Magic Lantern - This Life by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:18:59Z 04 The Magic Lantern - Fault Line by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:21:49Z 05 The Magic Lantern - How Simple by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:22:51Z 06 The Magic Lantern - Enough by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:25:08Z 08 The Magic Lantern - Learning To Swim by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:28:15Z 09 The Magic Lantern - Holding On by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:29:05Z 10 The Magic Lantern - Weariest River by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:30:51Z 11 The Magic Lantern - Coda by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:31:55Z 07 The Magic Lantern - There's A Light by The Magic Lantern published on 2021-05-11T15:27:10Z
