![]() ![]() A crown jewel of one of indie rock’s most ambitious songbooks, “June” found its home in a world that seems as absurd, doomed, and oddly romantic as Bejar has always seen it. If we’re to take him at his word, this really is what life is like-alternately gliding in ecstasy and waging war on each passing thought, all while still making time for the everyday absurdity that falls in between. Randy Sparks had been a solo performer, mixing folk music with pop standards and playing club dates on the West Coast and in Manhattan. My Account My Purchases Advanced Search Browse Collections Rare Books Art & Collectibles Textbooks Sellers Start. But when a black family moves in to the all-white community, an. The Summer the Wind Whispered My Name: A Novel by. The onslaught of non sequiturs is chopped and layered against wafting disco, like the soundtrack to a mirrorball head-trip sequence in the Hollywood adaptation of his life. In 1959, eight-year-old Davy Connors leads an idyllic life in his small Midwestern neighborhood. ![]() The Canadian songwriter’s spoken-word vocals are processed to sound like a montage of various Dan Bejars complimenting and contradicting one another, musing on art and existence or cracking an “I barely know her!” joke while pondering the meaning of love. “Speaking of lifelike, this is what life’s like,” Dan Bejar declares midway through “June,” a gloriously surreal destination following three decades of journeying into the heart of his subconscious. ![]()
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