The Summer Projects (album) (2013-08), It’s Another… Wonder Under, Over You (EP) (2013-09)

-Summer Projects- (2013-08)

This release consists of various recordings from early July through early September 2013.
I had been working with The Voorholes (Pronounced 'Voor-'ōls) in June with a result of two albums and one decent EP.
Of the time in between, there was an occasional recording that didn't fit in anywhere; it proved very useful to have a reciprocal project underway.

 ‘The Computer Mouse that Misfired and Destroyed The Whole World’
MPK 2013

We define our elapsed time based upon our expectations before the occurrence?

What a brilliantly shitty Summer, it could be a film in the French Republic.

In a rather roundabout manor, I stated that I liked a first cousin (born one month apart from me).

Essentially, what did happen is that I asked for my cousins e-mail address by contacting her children on Facebook; I had no other contact data.

Eventually, I had a conversation on the telephone with her father, my uncle.

The problem was that there was no capacity in the discussion to accommodate my objective to contact her.
I wanted a mailing address, I didn't receive as much as that.
I don't trust him in an any affair because his preconceived notion is the basis of extinguishment.

‘Summer of No-Distance’
MPK 2013

I have known my uncle as something of an evangelist that regularly worked with children's ministries throughout the northeastern United States.

About twenty years ago, I drove my Grandparents out to his house for Sunday dinner.

There were too many people seated at the dinner table so, I was told to eat in the basement; I had to come up stairs for additional items on my plate.

I guess that's why I really don't believe much of anything my uncle says; he animates the truth as a cheap corrosive 'guiding light'.

I wanted to contact my cousin in person a and basically say 'hi'.

So, hello to the family!

‘Distant Child’
MPK 2013

So, as of early July, I'm really unhappy about non-communication in the family.

If I knew how to stick my foot out more, I would; because I want to communicate not, have someone do it for me.

‘Focal Wind To The South (When I Call For You, The Truth Is Never Told)’
MPK 2013

I see murky layers where none would have been expected.

I see incompetence where communication should have flourished.
I see a family that maintains a thin outer truth without a interior. 

‘Dead After I’m Young’
MPK 2013

I like this song with the typical two part composition that I enjoy.
I recorded the second part first; a few days later I recorded the first part with a 12 string.

So, I wanted to return to my church and that was fun too.

In fact, for the rest of this album, you can go through and pick and choose what topic these songs belong in.

‘What If I Had It So Wrong, It Could Only Be Right?’
MPK 2013

This song was composed quickly.

‘So…Our Church Is In Good Company, and You Are Becoming Increasingly Alone’
MPK 2013

mmm....there was this e-mail.......

‘The Uninhibited Corridor’
MPK 2013

I really need to be walking outside.
 I really need to be driving outside.
I need an income.

‘Why Don’t You Travel With Me Over The Hills and Through The Ravines?’
MPK 2013

The Summers coming to an end and I need to be somewhere soon.

‘Misunderstood Without a Reply’
MPK 2013


Someone is pissed off somewhere.

‘Dead After I’m Young (Reprise)’
MPK 2013

One more time around.

‘Out of My Head’
MPK 2013

At least I'm using it.

‘Worthless American Ministers’
MPK 2013

Chain letters are for assholes.
mmm....there was this e-mail.......

‘Thoughts Of The Unseen Child That Will Not Be Extinguished’
MPK 2013

This song is part of ‘The Computer Mouse that Misfired and Destroyed The Whole World’ set.

‘Midnight Highway’
MPK 2013

It's quick.

‘Are You Severe?’
MPK 2013

Not the most difficult style to play.

‘I Can’t Explain This Morning’
MPK 2013

Nothing new here.

‘All Roads Are Built To Be Spoken Of’
MPK 2013

Minimal recording
 


 
‘The Writing On The Earth and In The Sky’
MPK 2013

Overcast and similar but, it's familiar.

‘Lately...’
MPK 2013

Sound shaping!

‘Come On…Pull the Weary Soul Away From Hell 

and Walk with It In The Light of Assurance 

(Corner of Time)’
MPK 2013

Words of encouragement to walk by, with and, through.

Audio Release:

-Summer Projects- (2013-08)

It’s Another… Wonder Under, Over You (EP) (2013-09)

Sitting here alone, thinking about how everything is regarded and handled.
I decided to scribble together a small album; many of these recordings are two tracks only.

Dysfunctional Family I-IV

‘Dysfunctional Family-I’
‘Dysfunctional Family-II (…i name you…)’
‘Dysfunctional Family-III (…and now there are two…)’
‘Dysfunctional Family-IV (…and now there are three…)’
MPK 2013

It's about a really nice person and he gets rotten feedback about the manor in which he addresses others as he attempts to contact his cousin.

It's about not being encouraged to speak freely.

It's about corrosment.

Fearful of Truth V-VIII

‘The New Star Rests Quietly On A Park Bench-V’
‘I Said I Wanted To Be With You Because I Knew I Would Do Well For You-VI’
‘Fearful of Truth-VII’
‘Many Different Colours In Fuckland-VIII’
MPK 2013

It is quick and moderately fluid in nature.

Human IX and X

‘Reach Out To So Many Of You-IX’
‘The Selfish Diving Human Cannonball Misses The Swimming Pool and Stuns All!!!-X’
MPK 2013

I had this long instrumental piece that needed to be inserted somewhere, I used it in the last track.
Mostly, this summer was desolate as it revealed an element of the family that is so goddamn irresponsible that it cannot permit communication.
Yet another minister type character that has a rotting core of truth; I am so fucking pissed off at this holy mans standards.
I eat in his basement while he proclaims the unchallenged word of the lord.
In the past, I would attempt to avoid anything like this but, lately, there's not too much to step aside onto.

For the record:
The album is OK.
I really like my cousin.

This is my fourth time at attempting to straighten up the writing in this blog.
I have had too much caffeine.

That's how things went this Summer; I need to be situated in life with work and a family.

Audio Release:

It’s Another… Wonder Under, Over You (EP) (2013-09)