TEMPLE REDUX
a new world music album
Temple Redux
I’m not afraid of your suffering
I see you
Welcome to Temple Redux – Autumn 2024 edition.
A few nips & tucks – shorter/more streamlined.
In the 30 years this album has evolved, I think it’s the best version.
It should be noted that these are collaborations with others in other parts of the world.
All credited in the blog, website & YouTube. Thank you for watching and listening.
Countries of origin below …
it is recommended that you crank up the sound and turn the lights off
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ZDZ – Poland/Sweden
REQUIEM – Argentina/Angola
I WANT – USA
LOYALTY – Do or Die – Canada/USA
DYSTOPIAN 2125 – USSR/Greece
CONSTANTINE – Morocco
ENTANGLED IN ALGIERS – Algeria
GROOVY – Germany
RUN – Majorca
VICTORY – UK
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THE STORY BEHIND TEMPLE REDUX
Temple Redux is 30 years in the making
In 1995/96, I received a Toronto Arts Council grant and a FACTOR loan
to do a new world music album
I called it Temple
Having to rush it’s completion
(because FACTOR gave me a deadline to deliver CDs)
it fell short, even having taken 2 years
seeds were however planted
I’ve added, dissected & remixed (3rd time)
now here in 2024 – finished
My first inspiration came from having watched
a Scorsese film years earlier
called ‘Last Temptation of Christ’
and the soundtrack blew me away
I bought my first CD player that summer (1988)
and listened to Peter Gabriel’s ‘Passion’
endless times, fascinated
several years, then even decades later
and finally
Temple Redux
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