MAKIN JAN MA
dream bigger, live harder, love deeper
October 2010
Jack trying on our biker jacket!
Jack is our intern and I think now he is more like a good friend in the studio. He is very talented and he writes good stories. He is a very funny guy when you put a camera in front of him! We love JACK!!!
Moonwalking to your heart E.P.
Makin Jan Ma creates characters; their internal and external.
“The Moonwalking to Your Heart E.P” continues the journey that Makin began with his fashion collections and photography, by giving a voice to Makin’s character “Guts” through the music of Raoul Colvile.
This story is a fantasy, a love story begun in earnest and ending in destruction, as two lovers set a course, alone and together, from the earth to the other side of the moon.
The first song “Guts’ Lullaby” finds the protagonist and his lover resolving to leave for the stars. The piece focuses on the concepts of both commitment and reassurance through the metaphor of cremation and rebirth.
The second song “The Lovers’ Moonwalk” shows Guts and his lover setting out amongst the lunar landscape; bare and huge. They are protected only by each other, looking back at the world, hands held.
The third song “At the Rainbows’ End” is a song of mourning. Raw; the lovers’ journey is finishing. Lost in the wilderness of the moon in shadow, as he had known it could be, Guts’ resolve and commitment is totally broken in one sense, but in another remains entirely intact.
Like Guts, the songs are real and were recorded live in a continuous studio session.
All songs were written and performed by musician, poet and model Raoul Colvile and feature Oliver Lyon on cello.
All photos and illustrations are done by Makin.
The E.P. is presented as story book designed by Jackson Lam, Printed by Hato Press.
