February
Another album in the bag. Feeling that heady rush of satisfaction and depression that comes with finishing a big project. Also I think I have a cold or the flu or something, which isn’t helping.
I uploaded it to Bandcamp two nights ago, right as the world was learning that Osama Bin Laden was dead. So that was a pretty big day for the internet.
EP’s called “February” because I started working on these songs in February 2010 and (basically) finished in February of 2011, with a LOT of time off in the middle. The first three songs are new. The last three songs are old. I was gonna include three covers, but you can’t upload covers to Bandcamp without officially licensing them, and fuck that noise, so I’ll just upload em to Soundcloud or something at some point.
The songs are all based around loops of Sam Moss playing violin and banjo. He improvised parts for one or two songs and then I just cut them up and reused them for every song on the album. It was a really fun way to work that I doubt I’ll ever do again. There’s also some guitar that doesn’t sound like guitar and some drum samples I found on the internet and even a recycled drum track from the Green Grocer EP on one song.
Go download it now. It will make me happy.
http://sewingmachines.bandcamp.com/album/february
