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The Beautiful Mirage

by Laurence Lam

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You're The Only Thing That Makes Sense To Me 04:19
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Must Be Going Crazy 02:04
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If Only You Could Hear Me 01:54
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Let's Not Waste Time 02:45
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Baby's Not Home 04:10
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There's No One Beautiful Like Her 04:17
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Well I'm Glad You're Doing Fine 02:28
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Resting In My Mind 02:19
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The Beautiful Mirage 03:50
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about

A concept album about the illusion of short lived attraction we feel towards a close friend, usually experienced during the height of an emotional turmoil.

This album was originally comprised of all the unused songs from "A Notebook About Autumn", reworked into an entirely new concept album that was conceived during December 2017, only a few days after completing "A Notebook About Autumn".

Despite having the album's structure decided from the start, I continued to composing new songs as a backup, which is a usual process for me. This proved useful because after listening to a rough cut of the original listing, I found it to be very sub par and decided to restructure the whole album so it flowed naturally and the lyrics were reduced to give the feeling of expression through the music.

The album's music style builds on the previous album and improved with overdubs and better sound quality since the songs are not being interfered with outside noise.

Fun Fact: The album was inspired initially by Roger Waters' "Pros and Cons Of Hitch Hiking" and David Bowie's "Station To Station". However as the album's production progressed I found myself taking inspiration from Albert King's sentimental album "Born Under A Bad Sign" and Pink Floyd's overlooked "Obscured By Clouds".

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released July 28, 2018

All songs are written by Laurence Lam.

Laurence Lam: Vocals, Guitars, Production

Radio voices provided and compiled at: www.text2speech.org

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Laurence Lam England, UK

I'm a friendly musician with a passion for blues jamming and for writing songs that tackle different subject matters.

Taking the lyrical songwriting from Bob Dylan, with the album structures of Pink Floyd and the subject matter resembling that of The Velvet Underground; I have my unique style of writing complex songs and very far out albums that separates me from your average artist. ... more

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