The Magic Lantern

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What can loss teach us about love and how do love’s small acts give a life meaning? These questions have preoccupied me over the past few years. My daughter Cora was born in July last year while my father died a few weeks later after his long journey with dementia. Making music has always been a way of working out what I think, but in the midst of an 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 just 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. 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. I am currently writing my fifth album and will be playing shows around the UK and Europe this summer. Jamie Doe / The Magic Lantern