Excalibur
The Record: It’s called Excalibur. 400 copies, comes with a 24-page zine, and a download code (everybody made me), and it’s pretty good. Read the zine for the full story, but it’s long and convoluted so basically: I recorded 85% of it at home, playing most of the instruments myself (with notable help on things like drums and trumpets and other things I can’t play all that well… all told there were 13-odd Mathletes this time) and got some help from Steve Finley (Linus Pauling Quartet) to make it “sonically palatable.” My words.
Thematically it’s an album about cycles and communication. There is a booklet with all the words and lots of other things. I wanted there to be something for you to do while you listened to the record; hopefully it's the kind of thing you'd like to listen to more than once. Look at the cover (art by local garbage pail kid Devin Finch), look at the liners, listen to songs, turn the record over. It's 13 songs; think of it November to November. The way I’ve always dealt with things (meaning, y’know, life and love and happiness and how they all fucked up) is by making songs and then trying to figure it out from there. That’s what Excalibur is about.
