The Art of Being Alone (2023) [LP]

by Jim Byron

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1.	Exquisite Sadness 05:57		buy track
2.	Old Pictures 04:16		buy track
3.	Forever/Whatever 03:00		buy track
4.	I’d Give Up Everything 03:39		buy track
5.	The Art of Being Alone 02:49	info	buy track
6.	The Dark Side of the World 03:24		buy track
7.	Raziel 03:42		buy track
8.	Cancer & Sagittarius 03:23		buy track
9.	Minnehaha Falls 03:33		buy track
10.	Song of the Summer #2 05:14		buy track

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The Art of Being Alone is a ten-song diary of songs that bring the listener on a tour through the halls of profound heartbreak on a journey towards healing and redemption. Devastating sadness, the habit of looking at old photographs with a newly former lover, reconciliation of broken promises of forever love, willingness to sacrifice every to bring them back, the Jungian shadow, past guidance by a guardian angel, horoscopes, the memory of the place of a first kiss, and resigned acceptance of loss - all of these are themes explored in an album that is tied together by the thread of self-discovery through intense emotional self-examination. Written at the end of a “Sovereign Heart Summer”, The Art of Being Alone marks the end of a phase of denial and heartens the listener to meditate on the deep lachrymose of the experience of loss through to the fond celebration of joyful memories of a lover with whom one has parted ways.

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released October 30, 2023

Cover painting by Dead Harlem

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Jim Byron Minneapolis, Minnesota

U.S. alternative musician, songwriter, and producer. Has released over 30 albums since moving to Minneapolis in 2015. Genre- fluid. Mentored by two poet laureates of major cities: Jack Hirschman of San Francisco, and the late Barry Spacks of Santa Barbara. Also mentored by the mythic Baby Gramps, who once toured as Bob Dylan's personal backstage entertainment. ... more

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