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time is being

by Jill Whit

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    200 professionally dubbed Super Ferric tapes in light pink shells imprinted with white ink & a full color j-card, plus a 128 page, cassette-sized zine of full color photos, drawings & lyrics, packaged in a butterfly-style double cassette case. 10 tracks, 28 minutes.

    All orders come with a PDF version of the zine.

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1.
A veil to cover your face As we enter into a ceremony; A marriage of a new life. A symbol of protection. Do you remember when we use to see the sun As the color it was intended to be? Yellow days are over Blue skies dried up The moon, a ripe tomato. I vow, six feet away And forget the sense of touch. Touchless Touchless Touchless Touch
2.
There is light, Even at the ending. Something you can’t hold, But you can feel. Your touch Is like a symbol. The language of light A token of what is real. Your love Is so simple. Like a river that runs While I’m standing still. And every cowboy Needs a cowgirl.
3.
To take a pause To remember to just be To remember how to look around To remember the power of wonder To remember that living in the moment is both birth and death of past and future True silence The easiest and hardest time to stay sober To let loose To tidy up To take the day off To build a routine To create To reflect To connect Transformation is intimate Transformation is personal Isolation, solitude, clarity The importance of positive thought And the celebration of simpler things Everything stops and everything keeps going To reach out To stay in To enjoy boredom To crave purpose To breath To remember you breath To love just breathing Inhale , exhale Inhale, exhale To live with yourself To build a new relationship with yourself To think more about yourself To be patient with yourself Feeling worthy of someone else Unconditional issues you’ve never addressed Are you scared? Or just not sure? Because maybe probably means no. And I won’t cry forever Just in the morning before I leave Purple light in the darkness When I roll over and there’s no one next to me To take care of myself Be aware of my mental health Clarifying light and the fullness of being alive And I won’t cry forever Just in the morning before I leave Purple light in the darkness When I roll over and there’s no one next to me
4.
Tell me you don't love me Like you once did. Tell me you don't want me You want her instead. Tell me you don't want me And make it seem true So maybe then, I’ll stop loving you. So maybe then, I’ll stop loving you. Hold her cheeks Between your palms. Pull her in close Till your lips almost touch. Tell me you don't love me And make it seem true So maybe then, I’ll stop loving you. So maybe then, I’ll stop loving you. So maybe then, I’ll stop loving you.
5.
A life full of self reflection A never ending progression. Do you ever feel alone and content in solitude at the same time? Like a waking from a dream Like the opening of the eye To be alive. A collection of thoughts Of comments you liked and some you don't. A photograph of your dog A collection of sounds Of tones you liked and recordings you don't Like that voicemail you wish you’d never sent Another photograph of your dog To take a dip in the lake To be surrounded by water To be reminded of summer every year An exertion that is both yours and everybody elses. Invisible mountains and low water levels A perfect circular stone Tears on my cheeks and the lines on my palms A sound comes out of my mouth that sounds familiar It's my own voice
6.
Windows 04:04
Life is open doors But it feels more like windows Repetitive circles One thing ends and one continues Take me back Then watch me go It’s like I’m slipping through your fingers Like something you can’t hold Life is open text But it feels more like silence Wondering what’s next Always looking for a balance Take me back Then watch me go It’s like I’m slipping through your fingers Like something you can’t hold Time is just a clock But it feels like a pattern Never sure of what I want Or if it really matters Take me back Then watch me go It’s like I’m slipping through your fingers Like something you can’t hold
7.
Quarantine 01:27
8.
Real Silence 02:36
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10.
I wade my feet And tilt my head back Cosmos heavy with familiarity The waning moon rising And the fading light Silence wont fix me but a soft hum A whisper sent high Dear god, dear god Like she’s to direct me on some predetermined path I drink the holy water And wonder what it would be like to swim in it Without sinking Set sail and submit to immortality I sink I sink I wade my feet

about

Jill Whit is a Salt Lake City-based creative artist. Her work as a songwriter, musician, tattooer, and fine artist has allowed her to create a large community which spans across the country. Her creative practice has always been an intimate experience; for Jill, making music is an incredibly personal practice. Her album, time is being, is her first entirely self-recorded project. The album was written during the long days of the pandemic in 2020, when, like many others, she found herself spending more time alone than ever before. "The album is really an exploration into the body,” Jill explains, “It's about knowing yourself through solitude - gaining a connection to your physical body. It relates to opening up to your inner voice, and connecting the body and spirit through physical and emotional movement; to be ever accepting, shifting, breathing, living, being."

time is being’s distinctive style of “bedroom ambient" blends lush but lo-fi synth pads, gentle electronic beats and wisps of atmospheric guitar as the foundation for Jill’s spoken poetry and emotive singing. time is being and its accompanying zine are an intimate and affirming document of a year spent in isolation and an artist finding new confidence in her voice and vision.

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released May 28, 2021

Written and recorded by Jill Whit
Except 'Real Silence' written by M. Ward
'I Always Get Lucky With You' written by M. Haggard, F. Powers, G. Church & T. Whitson
Guitar on ‘Maybe means no’ by Joshua Doss
Photography by Joshua Doss
Artwork by Jill Whit
Mastered by Matt Bachmann
Released by Orindal Records

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