Remember Me

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03/11/24 • 47 min

Lo Carmen hears the secrets of the Wind Telephone in Japan, and challenges her thinking about death and afterlife by learning about virtual interactive versions of ourselves that preserve our memories and live on after we go with James Vlahos from Hereafter.ai and the wild world of preservation of the human body after legal death through cryogenics from Southern Cryonics CEO Peter Tsolakides.
Original theme music by Peter Head.
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Written & recorded by Lo Carmen
Edited by Lo Carmen & Aden Young
Mixing & Sound Design by Aden Young
Black Tambourine Productions

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Go Your Own Way

Lo Carmen converses with Jason Leach from And Vinyly about living on beyond the groove and becoming a record after your death and Charles Chafer from Celestis Memorial Space Flights about making dreams come true and sending ashes on the ultimate trip to space...
Original 'Death is Not the End' theme music performed and composed by Peter Head.
'Death Is Not The End' sting, performed by Peter Head, composed by Bob Dylan
'Put Another Record On' performed/composed by Lo Carmen
'Into the Universe' performed by Holiday Sidewinder, composed by Holiday Sidewinder, Nick Littlemore, William Jay Stein, used with permission from Lab 78.
'Go Your Own Way' performed by William Tyler, used with permission. Composed by Lindsey Buckingham.
'Fly Me To The Moon' performed by Peter Head. Composed by Bart Howard.
Répertoire licensed by APRA AMCOS.
Written, recorded & edited by Lo Carmen
Black Tambourine Productions

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The Beat Goes On

In this episode, Lo Carmen ponders connections between music and death and has a conversation with drummer Jim White (Xylouris White/Dirty Three/Marisa Anderson/Bill Callahan and many more) about dead friends, seeing things, his new solo record, Dirty Three and his father's 'good death'.
We also hear from film director Ray Argall and moving stories from family friends Jane Skinner and Andrew Galpin.
Listen to Jim's new solo album All Hits: Memories here: https://lnk.to/allhits
For more about Jim White: https://www.jimwhitedrums.com/
Music from Dirty Three and Xylouris White was also in there, as was the composition 'I Am Dreaming Of You' written and performed by Rachael Coutts.
Original theme music by Peter Head.
Répertoire licensed by APRA AMCOS.
Written & recorded by Lo Carmen
Edited by Lo Carmen & Aden Young
Mixing & Sound Design by Aden Young
Additional track mixing by David Akerman
Black Tambourine Productions

Death Is Not The End - Remember Me

Transcript

Death Is Not The End/Remember Me transcript:

Lo Carmen: On the top of a hill in the small coastal town of Otsaku Japan, alive with wildflowers and cherry blossom trees, stands an old white telephone booth with a disconnected old fashioned black rotary telephone inside. This is known as the phone of the wind - Kaze no Denwa. Grieving survivors of the 2011 Great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which took the lives of almost 20,000 people, including 1,400 inhabitants of this tiny town, were