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Any and all money made from sales of this music will be passed on to Sarah's family, to support her husband and two young children to navigate through life without her.

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-- 1987 - 2023 --

In April 2023, Sarah Louise Brammer passed away following three years of living with triple negative inflammatory breast cancer. A voracious lover of art, poetry and music, Sarah spent the final few years of her life throwing herself into creativity, constantly creating beautiful pieces which somehow tied together everything from the ordinary everyday experience to the wild, cosmic untangling of the spirit/body in the face of the great precipice of the unknown.

Her family and friends were everything to her - much of her work features her children, her husband, her parents. Much also focuses on the stark changes in her life, focussing on the body and the spirit.

Art was immensely healing for Sarah. We regularly shared music and videos with each other of things we were discovering and becoming obsessed with. I also feel immensely privileged to have been able to work on music and art with her over the last couple of years aswell, I always told her to follow her heart and her creative muse - and that if an instinct presented itself to create poetry or art, then she should follow it and, if the muse directed her back to me, then I would drop everything and be there 24/7.
I'm incredibly thankful that the muse sent her in my direction several times, as I think what we created together is amazing and incredibly deep and beautiful.

"Shower Poem"

This was a short piece recorded by Sarah at home, intended for use in an installation she had at the Fraser Valley Biennial, held at the Reach Gallery Museum in Vancouver, Canada. I helped to piece together the recording for the exhibition.

"Courage"

Initially intended to be a song co-written by us both, I wrote and recorded the music in summer 2022, bouncing ideas off Sarah and taking guidance on structure/timbre etc. The dream idea would have been that Sarah sang vocals on this, unfortunately we didn't get to do this.

Following Sarah's passing, I found a poem that she had sent to me around the time that we had been working on this song. The poem was written for another friend named Susan, who she had met through treatment in Canada. "Courage" was a poem that Sarah read at Susan's memorial.

I stumbled on the poem while looking through messages on my phone. Somehow, it fit perfectly with the music we had written. The vocal was recorded the day after Sarah's passing.

"A Brew Sorts Everything"

We talked about creating a piece of music that was ambient and gentle, but when Sarah sent me the audio recording of her spoken word piece, we realised it was crying out for something powerful. Sarah recorded the spoken word piece directly into her phone while she was in hospital following a particularly frightening seizure.

The audio is a little messy, with nurses talking, laughing and banging around in the background. It's perfect. Isn't life a little messy? We try to be honest and open and upfront and poetic and serious, but shit happens and we're forced to live alongside the chaos, the laughter, the silliness in the face of the drama. Life is insane. It's fleeting. We're gone before we even know it.

Find your peace. Allow yourself a little moment of clarity.