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So Long, Atticus
Words and music by Briyan Frederick
© Brian F Baker | Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP
All rights reserved.
This was originally written and recorded during a songfight where participants are given a song title and challenged to write and record a song in a week or so. It’s based on the book, To Kill a Mockingbird.
The resulting recording below was done in the house off 39th in Salt Lake around 2003 and has me playing guitar, bass, keyboard, drums and vocals.
The Blind Mime Ensemble version is a cover of this recording, faithful to the original, made for the Leave the Silver Coins Behind album in 2024.
Marbles and chalk
A broken pocket watch
I found them in a tree
He left them there for me
A pencil and a pin
A whistle made of tin
A button and a ring
For lack of words to sing
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
The town was filled with rage
To hide from their disgrace
The stranger ran from harm
They shot without alarm
And wise, beyond my years
I called these men to hear
But some things never change
While hatred still remains
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
Then before their hate filled me
The mocking bird in the tree
He filled the night with song
It's been so long…
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
It's been so long
It's been so long, Atticus
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Blind Mime Ensemble is a multimedia art project by Briyan Frederick.
Blind Mime Ensemble is virtually fronted by Riyan and Freyd, two enigmatic, mimes who navigate a surreal, ever-shifting world of sound, silence, and absurdity. Their blindness is fluid—sometimes self-imposed, sometimes real, sometimes performative—as they search for meaning, expression, and each other in an evolving landscape of experimental and electronic pop music, visual storytelling, and conceptual art.
Their performances blur the lines between dreams and reality, chaos and order, seeing and unseeing.
Blind Mime Ensemble VS is a secondary project where BME creates albums from audio seeded from other artists, Tapegerms, videos, found recordings and more. It’s more experimental glitchy electronic and explores the boundaries of modern composition with AI and other methods.
Blind Mime Ensemble Variations is where we explore variations of found sounds, art and maybe other things. These explorations result in album-length pieces. Send us something for us to into something new.
You can find Briyan Frederick‘s home and studio recordings at briyanfrederick.bandcamp.com.
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