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Did anyone hear that

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I'll try again! Did anyone hear that new track he did about the Paris shootings? Very moving I thought. Interesting that during it he mentions he had been listening to some new songs he recorded too.

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Yes - I must admit I've been wondering about whether he still 'had it'. Whatever 'It' is.

He's still very much got it.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06q652p - forward to one hour in and it's the next song.

Something feels very wrong enjoying it when you consider what prompted it.

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Wow, that was lovely.

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No shame in enjoying it at all, I felt my eyes water it was so touching. I've said on the Facebook page it deserves a wider audience and asked if anything will come of it. Like you said, he still clearly has it, when the subject matter was so affecting to him.

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There's a vid of the track on the Sunday Service Facebook page now.

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There's a version here on the BBC now, so hopefully that will get some more attention, it's been on Twitter a lot too. I heard it first on the programme on Sunday afternoon. I also keep wanting to say it was lovely, then feeling that is entirely the wrong kind of word, appropriate is rather limp. I had wondered if he was there all through it when the previous week's programme was recorded in Paris.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34911352



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A facebook post from Rough trade Records:

Jarvis about his Jamma on 13.11.2015 on the Sunday Service
"The attacks happened about 4 hours after I'd pre-recorded the Sunday Service for that weekend in the BBC studio just off the Champs Elyseés. I believe they got a BBC newsreader to say as much just before the show went on air. I always mention if the show is coming from Paris so I guess the listeners might have found it strange that I made no reference to the recent events otherwise.

I was in Paris until the morning of Wednesday the 18th when I was due to travel to London to do some recording. I found myself writing stuff down in my notebook constantly: I imagine a lot of other people found themselves doing that too. When your world is threatened you tend to see it in sharper focus. I didn't really have a plan of what to do with the writing - it just seemed important to get it down so I wouldn't forget things. A lot of it is just mundane details.

Sometimes on the show we have this feature called "Jamma" which entails me reciting or (almost) singing a text over an accompaniment improvised by a musical guest. (David Cunningham & Beardyman are amongst those that have participated in the past). Sometime during the Eurostar journey to London the idea of doing a "Jamma" based around my Paris scribblings came to me. It felt like the best & most personal way to communicate to the Sunday Service listeners my impressions of the past few days. I got the other stuff I had to record out of the way & then we started work on it around 7pm. Serafina Steer had been playing on the other material & she graciously agreed to give me a hand. We didn't discuss it very much - I just gave her a couple of vocal cues where I thought the mood of the music should change. I sat by the microphone & she sat at the keyboard. I think we had one false start but what you hear is basically the one & only time we played it all the way through. I misread a couple of bits but, hey....We added a bit of piano at the end & then that was it. I was home by 9:30pm.

It's not really a song - I'm not sure what it is really - but hopefully the sentiment gets across: I'm not generally a lovey-dovey person but that weekend in Paris I really kind of felt besotted with everyone I saw! We all sort of bumble around & sometimes mess up & stuff but everyone's trying their best & in the end we have the freedom to fail & that's important too.

This was the best I could do given the time & the circumstances. Thanks for listening.

(& thanks to Serafina & Ross for helping make it happen).

xx Jarvis "

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