Tuesday, April 20, 2010
The Crutches
..........-Serious guitar squall. Like being lost in Scotland during a blizzard. Perfect soundtrack to the Icelandic volcano blast of 2010. Is this the answer to the Volcano Suns?
caroliner rainbow
Caroliner Rainbow-SanFrancisco
.....this seems spawned from a fever dream-a hymnal from a logcabin polyastery found?but mysteriously unable to recall the trail back-and if I knew my toungue would become tied with blissful horror. A misssionary reckoning-a Call to pollinate an extinct ancient species based upon mutually shared hallucination. 20 so years in the making they are the beacons of 19th century animist wanderers. compost piles for the bitter fruit of the devicefully imaginant. What a floorshow! One wonders if they eat raw oysters. Pink Houses and Mad Cows...This is a bercuese for a time prior to ADHD. Crank up the kerosene lanterns-the redmen just invaded the train.I love Neil Diamond as much as the next day but this is the real "Sweet Caroline" Tom Edison seems the great anti-hero. Still plenty of mold left for the winter in Salem. Revenge of the Pagans- qoute Melchizedek "King Me"
.....this seems spawned from a fever dream-a hymnal from a logcabin polyastery found?but mysteriously unable to recall the trail back-and if I knew my toungue would become tied with blissful horror. A misssionary reckoning-a Call to pollinate an extinct ancient species based upon mutually shared hallucination. 20 so years in the making they are the beacons of 19th century animist wanderers. compost piles for the bitter fruit of the devicefully imaginant. What a floorshow! One wonders if they eat raw oysters. Pink Houses and Mad Cows...This is a bercuese for a time prior to ADHD. Crank up the kerosene lanterns-the redmen just invaded the train.I love Neil Diamond as much as the next day but this is the real "Sweet Caroline" Tom Edison seems the great anti-hero. Still plenty of mold left for the winter in Salem. Revenge of the Pagans- qoute Melchizedek "King Me"
Friday, April 9, 2010
mike mountain EP
Mike Mountain is a band. Originally conceived as a nickname, the moniker became a stage name. The project was formed around January 2009. Steve Kelly (guitar), Jeff Gobush(bass), and Mike Almond (drums) forms the nucleus of the present lineup. M.R provided saxophone and appears on the E.P.(75 or less Records, Providence R.I) until we decided to tighten up the unit. A 7 month hiatus began at the beginning of August as I was legally institutionalized. The CD was released in November despite a lack of fanfare as were at the time disbanded. The EP was unconsciously chockful of a dark foreboding lyrical quality which prophetically spells my eventual spiralling into acute psychosis.
We played many shows(almost exclusively in our hometown) and were gradually gaining momentum amoungst friends and bystanders. My mental health-a mixture of mania coupled with delusional grandiosity-began to erode around midspring as I quit taking my psychotropic medication. Serious problems ensued and I currently hoping to sort out legal difficulties.
As a band we are proud with the recording as a start in our formation. It consists of six songs and comes in at a tidy 17 minutes. The opening track, "Goat", staggers and boasts with an almost gangster-rock quality. "Secret Soceity" displays a paranoid, conspiratorial look at modern culture. The next track, "Social Climber", is a jealous rant at a former girlfriend who took off for greener pastures. It is indeed deliberately spiteful and lashes out at the success and happiness of someone who was nothing but kind to me. "Racket" is political in nature and its wordplay(i ran, i rack) or (Iran, Iraq) is full of double meanings- a cry where I hallucinate with the fury of a zealot preoccupied with messianic leanings and political tribulation. Armageddon is apparently drawing nigh. "UK Threat", pure punk energy, catapults frenetically in which I imagine my every move tracked by diabolical surveillance methods of mindcontrol. The last song "A loan"-with its cascading surf-like breaks- hopes for deliverance -at least in the imagination.
The music throughout is groove-orientated (danceable?) while retaining an agressive edge. (My greatest inspiration is the Almighty Jesus Lizard.) In a world of noise-for-noise sake and hipster criticability, we set a course for likeability and originality. Being still a young band we have room to expand recording-wise but our live shows are always energetic and seem to please audiences. Check us out at MikeMountain5@myspace.com and get in touch for the recording. Thanks
We played many shows(almost exclusively in our hometown) and were gradually gaining momentum amoungst friends and bystanders. My mental health-a mixture of mania coupled with delusional grandiosity-began to erode around midspring as I quit taking my psychotropic medication. Serious problems ensued and I currently hoping to sort out legal difficulties.
As a band we are proud with the recording as a start in our formation. It consists of six songs and comes in at a tidy 17 minutes. The opening track, "Goat", staggers and boasts with an almost gangster-rock quality. "Secret Soceity" displays a paranoid, conspiratorial look at modern culture. The next track, "Social Climber", is a jealous rant at a former girlfriend who took off for greener pastures. It is indeed deliberately spiteful and lashes out at the success and happiness of someone who was nothing but kind to me. "Racket" is political in nature and its wordplay(i ran, i rack) or (Iran, Iraq) is full of double meanings- a cry where I hallucinate with the fury of a zealot preoccupied with messianic leanings and political tribulation. Armageddon is apparently drawing nigh. "UK Threat", pure punk energy, catapults frenetically in which I imagine my every move tracked by diabolical surveillance methods of mindcontrol. The last song "A loan"-with its cascading surf-like breaks- hopes for deliverance -at least in the imagination.
The music throughout is groove-orientated (danceable?) while retaining an agressive edge. (My greatest inspiration is the Almighty Jesus Lizard.) In a world of noise-for-noise sake and hipster criticability, we set a course for likeability and originality. Being still a young band we have room to expand recording-wise but our live shows are always energetic and seem to please audiences. Check us out at MikeMountain5@myspace.com and get in touch for the recording. Thanks
new bed for D
This blog will explore the peaks and valleys of an apparently disordered mind. The contents will be mostly about the state of musick both past and present. Mirroring the states of an empty slate liberties will be taken as to include any subject I deem interesting enough. I hope you find these musings worthy of your time. Stay tuned!
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