Carrying Lead
Green posted the following on his website about a new musical project
Carrying Lead "A Grief Observed" in Music
My partner was diagnosed with cancer in November 2007. He died 20 months later. I often felt that nothing in my life up to that point or in our 14 and a half years of love had prepared me for his being taken from me. A few months after his death I started to write songs, they came steadily and surely and strangely effortlessly. They seem to have stopped now, but who knows, grief is a strange land and I’m sure I’m bound to encounter territory soon where I need some musical orientation again. I was not surprised to see that the songs were about profound loss, but delighted that they are also about joy. They are about depression, jokes, and the complete uselessness of self-pity as a strategy. They are about hope and moving forwards without fear. After all, if the worst thing that can happen to you, happens to you, aren’t you oddly invincible?Taking its emotional cue from the masterly work by C S Lewis' "A Grief Observed", this collection of songs challenges in its emotional rawness but engages with its warmth and humanity.
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