This "Open See" EP was written and inspired by the photography exhibition "Open See" by Jim Goldberg (which documents the experiences of people who travel from war torn, socially and economically devastated countries, to make new lives in Europe) (Read more) and performed for the special event in his honour "Open Listen" organized by the Teen Forum associated with the gallery. We performed it live with 6 extra musicians on 16th Jan. 2010 and are pleased we can show the full set thanks to Dominic Jacobs who filmed and edited the video for us. It's a deep subject politically and emotionally. We tried as much as we could to feel and understand what they went through, even taking many words directly from phrases used by them that appeared on the portraits and putting them in the lyrics. It was a process of trying to feel their suffering and being passionatley driven to make the music we made inspired by what we saw and felt. We hope you enjoy listening to and watching it and also we hope it can make you feel and think about them a little bit (if thats not too St Bono-ish to say).
Clinker
Peter Jordan - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tomoko Matsumoto - backing vocals and glockenspiel
Antonio Campbell - violin
Ichiko Watanabe - piano, backing vocals
Guest performers Choir
Yukiko Hayashi
Maggie Brown
Nami Nagata
Naomi Doi
