Heavily inspired by The Caretaker's soundtrack to Grant Gee's documentary 'Patience (After Sebald)', 'One forgets that last time we parted without shaking hands' compiles looping, peaceful and reposeful melodies with ones that are dark, brumous and distant. With titles sourced from Sydney Schiff's translation of Marcel Proust's seventh and final volume titled 'Time Regained' from the series 'In Search of Lost Time', the album focuses on the chapter's themes of love and recollection. As well as using various recordings with J.W. Myers credited as the baritone vocalist.
01 - An oblique ray from the setting sun
02 - And spelled to my tired eyes a name I did not know
03 - Those imaginings of my childhood which had once seemed the most beautiful
04 - Certainly I intended to start afresh from the next day to live in solitude
05 - Explained by a thousand shades of meaning
06 - The sweetness of a mystery which is but the twilight
07 - Isolated in the golden penumbra of the night
08 - Almost ignorant of the realities of life
09 - I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory
10 - The memories we have of each other are not the same
11 - This idea of death installed itself in me definitively as love does
12 - One forgets that last time we parted without shaking hands