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Starlight Hotel

by John Furst

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HA! A rare perfect & magical album;
It is a monumental achievement, period.
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Jack Duff There's something magical in this collection that only happens when you take the time to listen to it all the way through and maybe sit down and pay attention to small things. Favorite track: Glitter and Glue.
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Blue Planet 01:06
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Neon Moon 01:05
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Worlds Apart 01:43
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Star2Star 01:45
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Ching 02:24
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Socks Off 00:54
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Any Greener 00:39
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Broken Toy 02:05
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Pretty Ugly 03:03
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Seeing Hands 01:14
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Phoebelune 01:57
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Rain Song 03:04
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Goners 00:47
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Heaven Was 00:40
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about

"May I talk again about how amazing John Furst's album "Starlight Hotel" is? Sure, I can. I love all of John Furst's work, absolutely, but this album has a relentless hold upon my soul. Brian Wilson had "Be My Baby", and I have "Starlight Hotel" (the obsessiveness is the ONLY comparison I'm making to the master). I return to this album constantly-- it is a place, it is a cathedral in my mind, it is an ineffable definition of a variety of emotions that run through the span of my lifetime from childhood to adulthood, it is the promise of God (not the mere hope), it is the beautiful bridge between reality and dreams, it is the series of stepping stones from this life to a gentler afterlife, it is the accumulation of relief/despair/sadness/glory in which all things are distilled into a calm equalizing oasis of just-so or is-ness; it is a language of innocence and experience rolled into one; it is planting the seeds, waiting for the sunflower to grow, gasping when it reaches its full height, silently mourning when the sunflower has gone, and then being filled with hope yet again for the next spring cycle. It is the awe-inspiring mirage in a dream that your senses allow you to momentarily feel completely; it is a miracle.
I will spend a lifetime discovering newness in this masterpiece."
-John Lane (Expo / A Journey of Giraffes)

credits

released August 1, 2003

all songs written and performed by John furst

originally recorded on a 2-track tape recorder, parkville maryland
remixing assisted by gerrit wessendorf
photo art by yu-ching mak
the album title was inspired by a heather bassa poem
digipak layout and design by gerrit wessendorf
management: studio wessendorf
contact: somedaynever@msn.com

thanks to terry, erica, rachel, susan, yu-ching, heather, lawrence, gerrit & alice, studio wessendorf, john & expo, lisa germano, and bouvet island.

© John Furst 2003

"starlight hotel"
the empty night swallows me
as i breathe in black fluidity
cool breeze lips
kiss my skin
dancing playfully upon my flesh
the wind grieves
though the cry of silence
outlasts its moan
blue lips surrender me to ecstasy
angels play
my heart of strings
as the cool, cold light
of distant stars
flows down my throat
to an open sea of sorrow
therein i swim
in the blue of your eyes
in the essence of the moon's light
through which the darkness of night glows
(heather bassa)

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