The Fragile Brain, by paulfcook

The Fragile Brain

by paulfcook

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1.	Keeping Watch 02:44	info	buy track
2.	Flow 03:10	info	buy track
3.	Atrophy 03:36	info	buy track
4.	At Peace 02:19	info	buy track

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The Fragile Brain was my way of making sense of my dad’s death from dementia in April 2022. The tracks represent various stages of this from watching him in his hospital bed in the week before he died through to contemplating what the dementia had done to his brain and coming to terms with his death.

My dad's dementia meant that he lived a 'Groundhog Day' existence believing he had only been in the care home for a week and was getting out “any day now”. My mother died shortly after he went into the home, but in his mind she remained alive right up to the end.

During his time in the care home I recorded all my calls with him; snatches of which you can hear on the track ‘Atrophy’.

I cannot praise the home enough for the incredible care he received. Not only did they keep him in good physical health but showed incredible empathy for him as they did for all their residents.

Any profits made from the sale of this EP will be donated to Dementia UK.

You can find out more information about dementia through the excellent www.dementiauk.org website.

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released April 5, 2023

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paulfcook London, UK

paulfcook writes, produces & remixes using acoustic and electronic instruments & field recordings. He is a member of the London/Liverpool group Skylon (skylonband.bandcamp.com).

He has been played on Tom Robinson's 6Music show, Mixtape, & Elizabeth Alker's Radio 3 show Unclassified, as well as Exile FM's Monday Night Ride Out & Trust The Doc radio shows.

Paul writes about music for Joyzine.org ... more

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