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SILENCE IS GOLDEN
2006 ✦ 57min ✦ LP
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1. Painted into a Corner
2. Trajectory (mp3)
3. Electron Volcano
4. BANGBANG!!
5. Tiger Rock
6. Ouroboros
7. Beta Breakers (mp3) |
8. Plastic Duplex (mp3)
9. Wolf Eater
10. Holding Pattern (mp3)
11. Loma Prieta
12. Blister Pack (mp3)
13. Alternator
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14. Hell Dimension |
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This album is pretty eclectic, but had a difficult birth. Before I started it,
my plan was to make an album focusing around Japanese themes, as I'd just gotten
back from my 4th trip to Japan, and had taken a lot of sound samples while there
which I was excited to make use of. My newly-aquired Microkorg synthesizer gave
me an extra boost. Unfortunately, after a few tracks, I hit a creative
block. A year later, I got
back to work, recharged. I abandoned the original album concept
(my interest in Japan already is woven deep into my art and music anyway) and
decided to make more of a varied theme. During this era, I was listening to a lot of
electroclash and indie rock, as well as goth and industrial music (going to a
lot of goth clubs with the goth lady I was dating in those days) and I think
that - combined with my quarter-life crisis and working myself to the bone to
afford living in San Francisco - added to the dark tone that the album would
take on.
Unfortunately, this would end up being my last full-length album for 20 years
(I made a noise EP in 2011), as
my free time became more vanishingly rare the more of an "adult" I became, and
my creative self-confidence hit the wall. Even though I had my doubts about my
musical skills of the time, listening to this album now, it sounds a lot
better than I gave myself credit for at the time, and I'm proud of it. I wish I'd believed in my own
skills a bit more back then, as this is a good album.
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More art from this album's packaging (bigger &
more detailed) in the design gallery, right
here!
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RECORDED: 2003-2006, in Columbus OH, Monroe MI, San Francisco CA, New York NY, Osaka JP,
& Kyoto JP
COMPLETION: v1.0: 10/27/2005, v2.0: summer 2006
ALL SONGS BY: Evan Hayden VOICE SAMPLES OF: Evan Hayden,
Ryan Sands, Laini Stamathis, Cerise B, Dawon K, Kanako M
PACKAGING ART & DESIGN: Evan Hayden COVER MODEL: Dawon
NOTES: The original version (2005) of this album
was missing "Hell Dimension", and instead had a wild 10-minute percussion medley
track called "Beat Suite". For the Pish Posh Records release of the album in
2006 I swapped those tracks, and also made minor tweaks to a couple
songs.
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