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In Our Time

by P.J.M. Bond

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The vinyl of "In Our Time" on black 180g vinyl, including liner notes by Dr. J. Gerald Kennedy, a photograph by Nadia Morsink, and lyric sheet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of In Our Time via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is the book of "In Our Time" (including the CD), with 3 essays by Dr. J. Gerald Kennedy, Jan Donkers and P.J.M. Bond, drawings by Pepijn van den Wall Bake, a wood cut by Rogier Willems, all original vignettes published by Hemingway in 1925 and all lyrics to the songs written by P.J.M. Bond.

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1.
On the Quai at Smyrna 02:22
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2.
Indian Camp 03:26
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3.
The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife 04:18
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4.
The End of Something 03:39
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The Three-Day Blow 03:26
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6.
The Battler 03:19
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7.
A Very Short Story 01:39
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Soldier's Home 02:22
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9.
The Revolutionist 01:27
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10.
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot 03:06
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11.
Cat in the Rain 02:45
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12.
Out of Season 03:20
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13.
Cross-Country Snow 03:37
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14.
My Old Man 03:16
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15.
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I 02:57
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Big Two-Hearted River: Part II 04:37
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17.
L'Envoi 01:37
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about

“In Our Time” is P.J.M. Bond's debut album inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s eponymous short-story collection published in 1925. Each of these songs transports the listener to the little universes created by Hemingway, while Bond shows off his chops as a multi-instrumentalist. On the album, Bond plays guitar, piano, flute, jew harp, blues harp, and organ. Bond collaborated with Ed Brooks (Fleet Foxes, R.E.M., Pearl Jam) for mastering on “In Our Time.”

For years, P.J.M. Bond had a dream to make a musical album inspired by a literary work. After obtaining an MA in English Literature from the University of Amsterdam and writing his thesis on the work of Ernest Hemingway, he visited the Hemingway Conference in Paris (2018). Here, he was re-introduced by David Wyatt to Hemingway’s debut short-story collection titled In Our Time. Bond says, "I quickly realized that the short story is a perfect vehicle for the song form, and especially Hemingway’s writing, which despite its seemingly simple prose, is characterized by intricately crafted stories."

For “In Our Time,” Bond started with rough ideas, and then wrote an entire album based on Hemingway’s short stories. To help him crystallize the songs and process, he locked himself in a log cabin to record the songs in isolation, with just the literature and music. Bond says, "Accepting Hemingway as my guide was liberating on the one hand, because I did not have to think of a track listing, the moods were already there, and the themes and directions of my lyrics to each song were already contained within the stories. On the other hand, this way of writing proved to be quite restrictive and alienating, because you cannot make a song fit if the story is unaccepting of it."

Acclaimed Hemingway scholar J. Gerald Kennedy wrote the following:
“P.J.M. Bond has deftly captured the plangent music of In Our Time in this act of creative homage. For anyone familiar with Hemingway’s ground-breaking collection, the songs that fill this album will recall both the beauty of its prose and the lurking nostalgia for lost innocence and belief after numbing disillusionment. Sweetly melodic phrasing, quiet lyrics conjuring key story lines, commonplace sounds (falling rain, footsteps on snow, a ratcheting reel), pulsating rhythms, metrical changes, sometimes unnerving dissonance—these are the hallmarks of the brilliant musicality offered here. Bond’s compelling guitar work, lush keyboard creations, and poignant vocals make Hemingway’s pieces come alive in new and surprising ways. He recalls both the radical discontinuity of these stories and the connective emotions, often expressed in irresistible cello refrains that evoke a primal yearning.”

credits

released October 9, 2023

Music and lyrics by Paul Bond

Produced by Paul Bond and Marcel Fakkers

Mixed by Marcel Fakkers at PAF! Studio

Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, Seattle, WA

Titles, vignettes and short stories by Ernest Hemingway, as published in his debut short-story collection titled In Our Time (1925). Included on this album is “On the Quai at Smyrna”, as added by Hemingway for the 1930 edition of In Our Time.

In February 2022, recordings started in the Lochem Log Cabin. Engineered by Marcel Fakkers. Recorded here were: acoustic guitars for “The End of Something”, “The Three-Day Blow”, “The Battler”, “Soldier’s Home”, “Out of Season”, “Cross-Country Snow”, “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I”, and “Big Two-Hearted River: Part II”, electric guitars for “The End of Something”, and “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I”, all electric bass guitars (played by Danny van Tiggele), flutes on “Indian Camp”, piano and chimes for “The Three-Day Blow.” All other instruments were engineered and recorded by Marcel Fakkers at PAF! Studio, from May until September of 2022.

All string arrangements by Reyer Zwart, except for “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” and “The End of Something” by Paul Bond and Saartje van Camp.

MUSICIANS

Paul Bond - lead vocals, harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar (on “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I”), piano, flutes, Hammond organ, Farfisa organ, Clavioline, Mellotron, Moog (on “Cat in the Rain”), blues harp, jaw harp, pump organ, bells, chimes, snow steps recorded in Grua, Norway (on “Cross-Country Snow”)

Danny van Tiggele - electric bass guitar, and electric guitar (on “The End of Something”)

Jeroen Kleijn - percussion, scissors (on “Out of Season”), chains, drums and castanets (on “My Old Man”)

Saartje van Camp - singing saw, and cello (on “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”, “The End of Something”, and “L’Envoi”)

Theo Sieben - banjo, mandolin, lap steel guitar, twelve-string guitar, and electric guitar (on “Indian Camp” and “Big Two-Hearted River: Part II”)

Marcel Fakkers - engineer and producer, vibraphone (on “Cat in the Rain” and “Cross-Country Snow”), sound effects (on “On the Quai at Smyrna”, “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”, “The Battler”, and “Cross-Country
Snow”), and shakers (on “My Old Man”)

Reyer Zwart - string arrangements, and upright bass (on “Cat in the Rain”)

Maria Gîlicel - violin

Simone van der Giessen - viola

Marije de Jong - cello

LYRICS AND COPYRIGHT

All titles, vignettes and short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Work cited: Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy, W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. Many thanks to Dr. J. Gerald Kennedy and Michael Katakis for their blessings and help.

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P.J.M. Bond Amsterdam, Netherlands

“One true sentence”. That’s what Ernest Hemingway was aiming to write during his stay in Paris in the Roaring Twenties of the previous century. The music of singer/songwriter P.J.M. Bond is greatly inspired by Hemingway’s philosophy and artistic vision: his music reminds listeners of white crests on the waves, the smell of burnt leather, and the crushing of shoes on a mountain path. ... more

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