We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Self-released cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    Each tape is dubbed onto a Maxwell UR 90 cassette on my home Technics deck. The five panel J-Card is black and white high-resolution print of the lyrics and the artwork by Josh Lewis.

    I think we made around 10 copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Jared Both & the Secret Hymns via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

about

London, Ontario-based folk songwriter Jared Both has teamed up with community developer Matt Thomson (featured recently by the CBC )
to tell stories of life around the Golden Horseshoe. Both’s lo-fi and earnest presentation tells difficult stories--of families, local politics, and larger world issues--each possessing an intimacy that pierces and echoes long after the last song. Living in Hamilton, Thomson’s commitment to local community is told through early morning community coffees, potluck holiday dinners, Christmas sing-a-longs, and helping with other people’s taxes. Nina Franconcheta, a newcomer to Canada hailing from Strausberg France, joins Jeanette Eby, a social worker, to bring vocal harmonies to the mix.

Working and living in the rapidly gentrifying east Hamilton is an exercise in resistance. For the community centered on Matt and Jeanette’s Hamilton house on the edge of Beasley Park. it’s about knowing your neighbourhood, your city and continually welcoming people in. Both’s writing, expanded from his own life growing up in rural Ontario, and birthed from Canadian folk, tenderly limns the networks of relationships that grows and sustains from playing music. (Steacey Easton)

lyrics

We are up and down
all the time
I want to stand on Solid ground

Are we swimming in? Sunlit seas?
Swim on through, though sunless seas

Markets go up, markets go down
Markets rise and fall and crash into the ground

Empires go up
Empires go down
Empires rise and fall into the ground

Hold my hand, come dance with me
swing and twirl and move with me across the floor with me
I want to dance
with you my girl
swing and twirl
and move with me.

We are up and down
All the time
I want to dance with you my girl
I want to stand on solid ground

credits

from Jared Both & the Secret Hymns, released March 1, 2020
Recorded and mixed by Nimal Agalawatte
Film by Michelle Both
Songwriting - Jared Both
Art - Josh Lewis

GUITAR - Rodney Barnes
TROMBONE - Paul Schmidt
BASS - Jeanette Eby
DRUMS - Pat Piper
VOCALS - Nina Franconcheta & Jeanette Eby

license

tags

about

Jared Both image

Jared Both London, Ontario

I am a London Ontario artist and I write in the vein of other Ontario indie folk artists like The Stars. In the cities I have lived in, I have bicycled through many snowy streets to attend and perform at small venue shows.

Past bands include:
Barn Owl (Toronto)
-Young Feathers (Kitchener & Hamilton)
-Gospel of Barn Owl (Hamilton) ... more

contact / help

Contact Jared Both

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Jared Both recommends:

If you like Jared Both, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now