Artwork by New York Times best-selling author/artist, Kerby Rosanes in six-panel DVD packaging with six panel fold-out, glued-in artist booklet, detailing all album production credits, contributions, and dedications. We come from a time when music was an artifact of culture that preserved the very parts of ourselves that reminded us of what it meant to be human. We think that’s worth celebrating.
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Smoke is a short, concept-driven song meant to detail the fragility of chance encounters, and how people appear to seamlessly, with ease and sometimes tragedy, move in and out of our lives.
Smoke is accompanied by a distrubing but provocative music video. It is part of a three-part music video series. To place it in context, please watch this selection as one part of a Triptych with Love Leaves a Witness featuring Nicole Atkins and Pretty Girls featuring FEEK.
Video Credits:
Video Produced and Directed by Denny Kremblas
Video Treatment by Chuckie Campbell & Denny Kremblas
Production Assistant: Chantal Michaux
Casting - Chantal Michaux
Starring
Chuckie Campbell
Jasmine Collins
Nick Easton
Nima Tajdolat
Special Thanks/Filming Locations
-Long Tea 乾隆茶社 for letting us film on location at their store in... more
lyrics
She imagined crooked paths,
a burning match, a fleeting moment
Chinatown, my paranoia
passing patterns at pagodas
pantomime the wicked omens
eyelids flutter, read my palm
for a second I believed her
when that chill went up my arm
I shook it off
we took a walk
superseding suppositions
superfluous superstition
a supplement superficial
I’m a sinner, bleeding heart
lost and circling the summit
summon sundown in the summer
swigging beer and swapping numbers
She’s younger, sweet as syrup
swimming midriff in my current
talked for hours, still uncertain
serendipity was burning
I surrender on the surface
she spoke as if almost nervous
tours in Canada and Europe
future persons I would work with
I had thoughts and she would word them
almost perfect with a purpose
her assertions, coercing
coherently we’re conversing
reaching deep within her purse then
lips met in that embrace
my heart skipped and missed a beat
as neon lights lit up her face
the reflections in her eyes
something haunting in its wake
lit a cigarette, she smiled,
pulled my hand the other way
Across the street there was a scuffle
loud voices at the corner store
shots fired, broken glass
two men escape the front door
crossfire, sirens,
taxi cab lays on the horn
a baby cries, tires screech
something’s burning through my arm
time stops, stood at pause,
as if it waved a magic wand
I looked down and what I found
nearly stopped my broken heart
her lungs filled with blood
and all she could manage was a cough
even worse, as she would struggle
I was left to sit and watch
from time to time, I wonder
when my skin gets nice and hot
if this scar is just a story
left to make a, make a mark
Cigarette burns
Cigarette burns
Cigarette burns
credits
from Taking Back Tomorrow,
track released May 18, 2018
Written and performed by Chuckie Campbell for Sunsets and Silencers Music, Buffalo, NY.
Produced, and mixed at True Blue Recording by Willie Breeding in Nashville, TN
Additional Bass Guitar on "Smoke" by Rob Crowell in Nashville, TN
Additional Saxophone on "Smoke" by Rob Crowell in Nashville, TN
Recorded by Alan Dusel at California Road Studios in Orchard Park, NY
Mastered by Kevin Peterson at The Mastering Palace in New York, NY
Album Artwork by Kerby Rosanes for Kerby Rosanes Doodle Art and Illustration in Manila, Philippines.
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