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Covid​-​19 Vol. 3 Quarantine

by Tin Can Luminary and the Orchestra of the Unwanted

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1.
Eye of the Beholder 08:09
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2.
The Immune System Responds 05:25
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3.
Coma Dream 11:22
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4.
Waiting 07:32
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5.
The Road to Recovery 09:51
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6.
Quiet Streets 10:08
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7.
Quarantine Lifted 05:38
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Covid-19 Trilogy

Late in 2019, a novel corona virus infected human beings for the first time around the city of Wuhan, China. In time, both the US, and the Chinese governments would accuse each other of releasing the virus as an offensive biological weapon, but most virologists assumed that this new disease had evolved naturally from a strain of virus common in bats. This new disease, dubbed “Covid-19” killed thousands of people in China. The Chinese government took drastic measures to contain the spread of the disease, restricting the movement of millions of people. However, in early 2020, the new disease spread around the world, and as governments around the world struggled to slow the spread of the disease, their efforts promptly brought the global economy to a screeching halt.

Around the world, governments instituted “social distancing,” and prohibited people from gathering in groups, closing bars, nightclubs, restaurants, theaters, shopping malls, sporting events and concert venues. Even churches and courts of law closed their doors in an effort to stop the spread of the disease. From China, Covid-19 spread quickly to Europe where it killed tens of thousands of people hitting Italy, Spain and the UK especially hard. Soon after, the disease took hold in the US where the death toll quickly surpassed 100,000. By June of 2020, the whole world had changed.

The economic costs stagger the imagination. Unemployment surged to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Businesses not deemed “essential” hemorrhaged money and many never reopened. Fuel prices fell, as did global carbon emissions as the whole world stayed at home and sheltered in place, for months on end. People began chafing at the new “social distancing” policies. The human need for contact conflicted with the understood necessity of isolation. Everyone donned masks and gloves whenever they ventured out of their homes, but their eyes told the story. People wanted to get back to normal, but normal was gone. The world would never be the same again.

I created the music in this trilogy during this global transformation. California’s “Shelter in Place Order” confined me to my off-grid solar-powered studio in Humboldt County and offered the perfect opportunity to tinker with my growing collection of unique, homemade musical instruments. The Covid-19 Pandemic dominated the news, and impacted everyone in some way, during this time, making its influence impossible to deny, so I acknowledge that influence and impact in the titles of these three albums. I composed the music for the Covid 19 trilogy between January and May of 2020 using instruments I created myself from recycled materials and found objects. I think this music conveys the uncertainty, the sense of wonder, as well as the foreboding, anguish and grief that I felt over what happened, what’s coming, as well as what, and who, we lost forever.

Tin Can Luminary began as the name of my business. For many years I created and sold a whole line of lamps lanterns and chandeliers that I made from recycled tin cans. Since then, I continue to use the name Tin Can Luminary for any project that involves recycling, upcycling or turning garbage into useful objects or interesting art. For me Tin Can Luminary refers to my vision of building a new, sustainable culture from the resources exploited, transformed, and laid waste by this one. At one time, I thought we might save the world this way, but today, I’m not so naive. Still, the exotic garbage produced by our suicidal culture remain some of the interesting materials to work with acoustically, and music is such a frivolous pursuit, that to me, it makes no sense to sacrifice the world’s natural resources to create musical instruments, and the instruments I build from recycled materials place my music squarely in the times we inhabit. The bizarre assortment of exotic materials available to the resourceful artist at this time, have never been available to human beings at any time before in our history, and it is doubtful if they will ever be available again. In many ways, the garbage that surrounds us defines us and our time in history, and so Tin Can Luminary uses this material to create music that reflects our time in history, and the condition of the world we live in.

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released July 21, 2020

John Hardin designed and built all of the unique instruments heard on this album from recycled materials and found objects. He also composed the music and produced the album in his solar-powered off-grid recording studio.

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John Hardin lives Off-Grid deep in the forest in Northern California where he produces original music in a solar powered studio. He makes many of his own instruments from recycled materials and found objects. He seeks to transcend civilization through music, so he rejects musical traditions born of civilized culture and instead cultivates wild, feral, and untamed musical impulses. ... more

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