I was trying to record a 10 song album, but couldn't.
For my job, I was making polished-up music for commercials and little movies, and so when it came to making a perfected, high concept, 10 song'd album, I wanted to puke.
All the feeling/meaning of the songs vacuumed out somewhere. It was like writer's block but backwards. I couldn't reduce what I wanted to come out.
So instead I went out to my garage studio every evening and just wrestled with the Feeling-Vacuum. And I just kept doing that, making new songs every night.
All the songs were written in the moment of recording them, around the shape of the original thing. They're the overflowing, endless tangents, and gooey guts of that ideal 10 song'd record about Winnie the Pooh's early adulthood and religious experiences. And so it took 141 improv'd songs to hold it somehow.
The record was made in that shitty Fall-Winter 2015.
credits
released July 14, 2017
All songs written and recorded by Micah A. Tewers
[Except for tracks 26, 50, & 102, as noted]
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