First written & performed in 2010 by Patrick Watson for the French film Meres Et Filles (AKA Hidden Diary), the lyrics are about the singer leaving notes in various imaginative locations where they might be found by a loved one. This track was remixed at Hellcat Studios (USA).

This video presentation of “I Send You Notes” is dedicated to my late wife Karon.

Instead of aiming for a perfect digitised sound, this version was designed to emulate a time when our music came from often scratchy portable record players; I interpreted the singer as a ghost, reaching across an unimaginable distance to comfort her lover…the imperfections in the soundtrack being a tacit acceptance that their separation is an inevitable, imperfect & painful sentence; hence the closing quotation from Sainte-Exupery which roughly translates as:

Of course I will hurt you. Of course you will hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But that is the very condition of existence. To become Spring means accepting the risk of Winter. To become Presence means accepting the risk of Absence.

Singer: Marianne Beaulieu.

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