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Their story, poured into two minutes of music.
Field recordings from hospice rooms, hospital wards & shelters
We sit with someone, listen to their stories, and then we press it.
The Archive
Three people who let me sit with their story. Press play to hear where it landed.
D.C. · 1960s · Hamilton, ON
Who's pressing the records
I play bass, and I've always thought of songs as the most honest way to hold onto a person. A few years ago I started visiting hospice rooms, hospital wards, and shelters in downtown Hamilton with a recorder and a lot of questions: where did you grow up, who raised you, what did you dance to, what did you never get to say, and more than anything, what would you want the world to know.
Afterward I go home and turn what I heard into a short piece of music. A recording of them. Some of them have generously let me share their music, so I built this website to share their stories.
"Everyone's life moves at its own rhythm. I only try to capture it and pass it along."
— Bo Kang, founder
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