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Heaven is at a Distance

by Jonathan Fraser

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I feel like I could put this album on repeat, and – trust me – I don’t feel that often.
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Luana One of my favorites post black 2020. Amazing from start to finish, great journey. Favorite track: Empty Prayers, Hollow Gestures.
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TONY ZAGORAIOS Jonathan is delivering again a great album. I have been following his work for a while and in this release, he manage to create a sorrowful journey through amazing guitar melodies/riffs and intense drumming. I really love the way he moves through different atmospheres, in most of the songs, by being brutal and dreamy at the same moment!! Favorite track: Heaven is at a Distance.
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Wasted space begets wasted directions Wasted anger begets wasted valuable time Wasted time begets a wasted life You're wasting over. You're wasted again. I cant recall what I was supposed to feel In the middle of the disappearing act my heart put on. Even if it wasn't the first time, it never is a thing you're ready to learn. So again I sat. So again I stared. So again I waited for the rest of time to burn. If I could only check in at the horizon with their remnants. To see what they chose to leave behind. I haven't given myself a chance to really let it set in. So I decided to let everything beside me walk a hundred miles away. I'm twisting until the threads come apart. I'm warping until theres nothing left. Theres plenty more space now. I remember now how its supposed to feel.
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Spring has stripped itself from the year’s wintry veil once again, In an annual mission to animate wilted flowers and deciduous skeletons, Though it lingers in my shadowy corner of the universe, To me it imparts nothing, I remain empty at the core Its light traces the darkness of my silhouette only to fade, Its love confides in me only to perish at the distant sight of better days, Late at night it stares back at me through the mirror, So as to make me forget my being entirely, Deep within its voice echoes only to be forgotten Mother who has cast me into this world, I long for your comfort amidst this lonesome war, The trumpeter struggles to find the right notes, Years of forsaken songs yearning to be sung This loneliness I’ve carried doubles in weight, How I wish for someone else to alleviate this pain, The gaping hole within expands and grows worse, The longer I wait for that someone and she who loved me first
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Bring forth my judgement Tear me apart Show no mercy Bring forth my judgement Set me ablaze
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. Live on

about

For this past year and a half since my mother passed, I have been going through a time of reflection. This included grief, guilt, depression, withdrawal, rage, self-hatred, regret, apathy, and loneliness. These emotions were distinctly separate and intertwined. What I felt the most, was death. I wished most days that I was dead, that I could fade away from this pain. Nothing motivated me. I was just putting on a mask, faking my existence, wandering aimlessly day by day. Then, one day, I looked within myself and realized that I was already dead. It seemed like most of me died along with her and what was left was just a hollow shape without direction.

I've forgotten how to live.

With this epiphany, I now know that this isn't how I want to be; I want to live. That is what this album encapsulates; being in a state of death and then the journey of rediscovering what it means to be alive.

I don't know what that is yet, but I know I'll find it.

Guitar Playthroughs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmcCzWJcB4&list=PL7KEcRT1tBvPK34wVBO9R_bM4hBr5X9Kv

Music Video for Heaven is at a Distance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYVNH3hdWo

Music Video for This Gaping Hole Within:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqHDErqdljM

Music Video for Vengeful Burden
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwHwm7lyOZc

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released October 24, 2020

All music composed by Jonathan Fraser
Guitars, keyboards, spoken word on track 9 by Jonathan Fraser
Lyrics on track 7 by Théo Machifila
Lyrics on track 9 taken from Louise Erdrich's novel, "The Painted Drum"
Saxophone on track 2 by Reid Noble
Vocals on track 4 and 8 by Jake Eras (karasofficial.bandcamp.com)
Vocals on track 7 by Lainey Lavender (soundcloud.com/catpillowyo)
Bass by Bryan Kingsley (harm-less.bandcamp.com)
Drums by Elias Jackson (christianlovers.bandcamp.com)

Music composed between winter 2018 and summer 2019

Drums recorded and engineered at Ftg Studios by Pedro Mancillas
Mixed and Mastered by Bryan Kingsley
Artwork by Jesus Lopez

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Jonathan Fraser Huntington Beach, California

Booking: jlfraser555@gmail.com

Been playing and recording music since 2009. Most of my music revolves around melancholy, anger, frustration, love as well as hope. Emotion will always be what drives me.

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