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QUIET AND SIRENS: An At​-​Home Song Cycle

by Jillian Hicks

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The Line Goes On 03:38
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Nobody's Hugged Me 03:10
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Quiet and Sirens 02:49
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Glorious, Glorious 06:04
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Hold Their Hands 04:33
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It's a Pandemic, Baby 03:16
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Only the Angels 02:47
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about

QUIET AND SIRENS is a homemade musical project giving voice to the season we're living through together. It merges my interest in narrative medicine with my love of music and storytelling.

I wrote these seven narrative songs in late spring and early summer 2020 in New York City and recorded them in my apartment bedroom during a two-week quarantine — using whatever instruments and technology were available in the apartment (essentially a keyboard, a microphone, a forlorn GarageBand program, and a bunch of household objects).

Each song and its "storyteller" is inspired by re-imagining various personal testimonies, interviews, and expressions of grief, hope, anger, and determination shared during the spring and summer of 2020 in news articles, literary pieces, blog posts, and on social media. QUIET AND SIRENS speaks to the power of empathetic imagination and the importance of finding ourselves in each other’s stories, using whatever tools we have to bear witness during a time of cataclysm.

AT-HOME INSTRUMENTS USED:
Yamaha P-120 digital piano, voice, water glass, pen, music stand, wooden frog guiro, doumbek, djembe, body slaps, hand claps, Pyrex container, spoon, fabric journal, cardstock paper, finger snaps, glass candle, bells mallet, recorder.

SPECIAL NOTE:
“Only the Angels” is dedicated to my maternal grandpa, and more recently, my paternal grandma, both of whom recently passed away from complications of COVID-19.
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released August 13, 2020

All music and lyrics by Jill Hicks, (c) 2020-2023.
All instruments and vocals performed and recorded by Jill Hicks.
Recorded at home in New York City, August 2020.
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All proceeds from this home recording are being donated to:

Robin Hood Relief Fund of NYC,
World Food Program,
and UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency)

to help feed and support children and families in need in New York City, the U.S. and around the world.

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Jillian Hicks New York, New York

Exploratory home demos for musical theater and other songwriting projects. Multi-disciplinary artist and musician from Minnesota studying how storytelling affects medical care in New York City.

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