Delighted to announce that Peirson's new single “Perfect Stranger” is available now on iTunes US and streaming everywhere else June 3rd. Special thanks to his loyal patrons and wonderfully eccentric imaginations who have helped him kickstart his next release with this dedication ballad/ body-painting impression animation film. Oh yes there will be screenings at our upcoming “Secret Sessions” shows and many more dreamy contributors in dance, paint, fire, song when we release the full album "Field Notes of Dormant Days" this summer. To view the body-paint pressed animation film of Perfect Stranger please visit here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanaPueYbRw
lyrics
As the reddest sun is sinking down
I feel like I got burned throughout the day
As I turned red you stayed a Banyan brown
Not from the sun but from the words you said
You're the perfect stranger to me
And I don't know how I know
When I know, I know, I know
I've only ever met you in a dream
But have you ever had a dream
When you're wide awake to see
The light of the day
In the night
Lying wide awake
As the brightest moon is rising up
I feel like you were reaching for my hand
Your lips turned blue, you started shivering
Not from the moon but from the swim unplanned
You're the perfect stranger to me
And I don't care how I know
When I know, I know, I know
I've only ever met you in a dream
But have you ever had a dream
When you're wide awake to see
All the lights on Orchard Street
In a dream of Luther King
The light of the day
In the night
Lying wide awake
As the reddest sun is sinking down, down, down, down...
credits
released June 3, 2022
Please accept my deepest gratitude @soojitsu for inspiring the piece & your helping to make my paint move on the canvas, @stew_crookes for your dreamy pedal steel and introduction to @joshuavt recording you and his drums at Dream Date Studio in TO, @mightyjoephillips for your always tasteful bowing on the upright bass, @dombort for the Dream Stream tour, fundraising and electric bass, Jason Mariani for helping to mix this and mastering @brotherynstudios in Ojai, California , @bbombier for the alt version, laughter and rehearsals, Madeline Roche for your lush French Horn, Mikey Clark @bellwoodsbeer for the beer and lending me your Voyageur Moog, Angelique Chandy for opening my eyes to the avant garde NYC studio world of paint, @bobberuck for running tunes by ear, @doubleewejay for helping me paint more in song @genevievemarentette for lending your voice and enthusiasm to the other gems on the album, Francesco Bellini for your smile and accordion, Parkdale Library for the cello, @kusterskoen for being our invisible guest star @jaycraftonmusic for tastefully sitting in, and all the fam, friends and fans waiting so patiently for this to arrive. More thank you’s to come as this one takes on a life of its own.
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