Random blaghness...
I released "This Was Tomorrow" back in 2011, and I had always wanted to have the songs "Picasso" and "Tilt-a-Whirl" together as one song. So I have remixed them to be together forever as one. Matt Lynott threw down some awesome drums, as always. The new mix sounds better than the album as well. Hmmmm...Damn it. You know sometime in the new year I will end up remixing the whole dang album. Why? Because I can!
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This album kinda came out from nowhere and everywhere. It is a compilation of unreleased songs I have had since 1999-2014. Some albums I made, there were a few that didn't get make it on the album for random reasons, perhaps there were already enough songs, or it didn't fit with the rest as well, or it was too heavy, too light, or too weird.
All this happened because I just released "Smoke Through A Keyhole" and I was backing up all my files and organizing my music. I would see these stragglers and thought maybe I should bring them up on the mixer and check them out. I haven't heard them in a long time, and songs are like photographs to me, listening to them and the reminiscence of the times. I would be remiss if I didn't mention two people who played on a few of these songs, Trace Smith and Keith Jones. They were my band mates in my project Fivecrown. They played drums and bass respectively on the tracks "Atlas", "No Phantom","Sucker Punch", and drums on "The Restoration". It took me about a week to remix all the songs. Upon listening to them, I found them to be not so different from each other, especially considering the amount of time between songs, 15 years to some, but remixing songs at the same time will tend to give things a similar cohesiveness. Playing around with the order convinced me these should be released as an album. They just seem to work together. Hence...this rather quick and unprepared release.
Some folks might think it is a little foolish to release another album on the heels of another new release. In 1980, they would be right. But honestly, for me, it is all about the process and the release...and then to begin again.
I want to be a wave that keeps coming every year with something new to offer. Who knows, perhaps one day, some of these sand pebbles will stick on the shore.
Here is the first track "So It Was Then" on Smoke Through A Keyhole, which will be released next week on October 7th!
So it was, so it was then
Come what may, I've been happy
So it was, so it was then
Time turns into space
Things of no moment
Sucking the sky
So-wrong-somewhere
You can stop believing but it doesn't go away
The radiant ones never know what's coming
You can be here if you're gonna be there
Things of no moment
Falling away
Falling away
Falling away
Falling away
Distant fingers searching
In the black blanket of Scorpio and
Whirling 'round repleat and gushing
A flooding flash bulb sunrise
Colossal and immortal shine
Envelopes me from a single source and
Hidden in the ceaseless movement
We share our secret sleep and
Diaphanous diamond supreme beings
without morning breath and seeing
Our hands clasp tight to make a fist
Of the impermanence of meaning
The nightingale that sings in the woods
She could, she should, she takes to fly and
I am spitting a rainbow stream to the sinking sky and
Blind me in my ghostly lust of
The flickering nova lighted dust.
Well, it is that time of year again...A new album release is eminent. "Smoke Through A Keyhole" will be released October 7th. For anyone that wants to pre-order the album, they will get a bonus song, "Deep In The Mystery". These 4 songs on the album are 7-8 minutes long, with 3-4 movements in each of them. Song structure is out the window here, it is really meant to be listened in its entirety (30:31), I know this goes against all reality in the land of attention deficit disorder, but that is point.
Deep In The Mystery
Blind me in my ghostly lust of the
Flickering nova lighted dust
Become my thoughts, become my blood
Into the night, below and above
You can only go to places that you let in
Losing control is how we begin
Finding solace deep in the mystery
Deep in the mystery
I beat you my heart in the silver sea
Filling in the space, by filling the time
Goes beyond our depth and beyond our minds
I twist and turn through the memories
That lie like kisses from the Siren Furies
Is it too late, or is it too soon?
A codex of the dead, of the rune
Intangible fruits, that we descend
Shattering the truths, and waking the dead
Solace in the deep mystery
Deep in the mystery
Another found song from the dusty archives, No Phantom. It is kinda fun listening to songs of a 15 year younger version of me. Definitely in the Alt Rock vein, genre or different genre, I guess there is no getting away from oneself.
No Phantom
I'm feeling you, you don't feel me.
Lovin's easy when you don't see...I'm no phantom.
Scatter 'em out, then settle 'em down,
These itchy feeling of excess
Now, what if I were to tell you blow by blow?
It's a lack of conscience I know too well to know.
Somewhere outside, far from myself
On a plate-glass window
There's a bit of me yet, it's no phantom.
Tapping into you lets me see
What part of you of you is inside me
What if I were a bullet in your gun, with nothing stopping you
You'd better run
Somewhere outside, far from myself
On a plate-glass window
There's a bit of me yet, it's no phantom.
