"Nobody knows who Daguerreotypes' James Samimi Farr is, and judging from his expansive and warm folk debut, This Is My Way to Tell You That Everything Is Real and Is Happening Now, this knowledge has eaten away at him quietly for the better part of a decade. After abandoning his dreams of a music career in his early 20s, Farr has returned to these dreams, or perhaps to the grave where he believes they are buried."
"The album's 20 songs are the resigned and rueful sound of him making amends with his obscurity, and his larger place in the universe. "If this is all there is, and we are all alone/My voice can go no higher," he sings on "Born a Baritone." As a writer, Farr belongs to a long and storied line of married men wrangling poetry from their bewildered happiness and vague dissatisfaction."
James Samimi Farr abandoned early music ambitions and later returned to record a 20-song folk album titled This Is My Way to Tell You That Everything Is Real and Is Happening Now. The songs articulate resigned, rueful acceptance of obscurity and a search for meaning within domestic life. Lyrics juxtapose contentment and unease, often in a "domestic cosmic" register, with references to aging and small, repeated moments. The album was recorded on vintage TASCAM multi-track recorders with reel-to-reel overdubs, imparting tape artifacts and a lived-in room tone. Performances feel intimate, warm, and attentive to texture and process.
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