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This is an email from Brett Kull, guitarist on this album and for Echolyn, on the Echolyn email list:
We just finished the new DOUBLE album which features Tom Brislin on
keys, Dorie Jackson on backing vocals, Jamie Bishop on bass and Paul
Ramsey on drums. I somehow even managed to get some guitar on a couple
songs which is pretty tough to do considering the talents of Francis.
The album is available at http://www.francisdunnery.com/shop.html - http://www.francisdunnery.com/shop.html
The Album, "There's A Whole New World Out There" is one of the best
I've been involved with. The SOUND is deep and wide and high and low.
It washes over you and pulls you in like a Saturday night bath. Tracks
like Staring At The Whitewash" could go on forever as far as I'm
concerned. I'd like to fall asleep to it then wake up to the same
progression in the morning (or in the middle of the night when I take
a leak).
What this album has, is a rare "betterment" of an artist’s songs. Rare
because most of the time, when an artists attempts to re record their
songs, they usually come up with a flat, half assed version of the
original. I promise this is not the case with this record. When
Francis started sending me the original versions of the songs we were
going to record by his old band It Bites I thought ‘damn, these suck!’
They did not travel well through time. "Dated" is an understatement. I
was not familiar with the band It Bites and now know why. They were
pretty much everything I hated about the eighties rolled in one. Bad
hair, processed drum kits, too much reverb, sh*tty sounds and big
light shows.... and yet after listening more I found that there was
melody and a good lyric.... it was just bludgeoned to death by the
horrid sounds of bad technology and overplaying. I KNOW what that's
about because I've done the exact same thing!
Trying to re-create anything is always BAD. Timelessness means the
Present because it is only in the present that time does NOT exist.
Francis is not trying to reclaim It Bites and the past, nor is he
trying to bring his songs into the future and onward. To make
something Present is to make it timeless and real. It's what every
great artist strives for. To give a song a soul and breath in the NOW
is magic. Listen to Joni Mitchell's Travelogue.
God knows I've seen a thousand soulless bands playing their hits,
doing the circuit and pandering to the sentiment of the collective
past of the audience. Being progressive in music/art has nothing to do
with that in my opinion. This album is part of something that is
daring, and not chained to the past or concerned with the future.
Francis has accomplished the rare feat of stripping away the fat,
bringing to light the heart of the song AND at the same time,
shattering singer/songwriter pretension and platitudes. These songs
are in focus now and truly timeless in their delivery.
The recording we did is simple and pure. Real musicians singing and
playing instruments mostly live in a room together. Mistakes, magic
and the moment are on this recording. Its "high class" as Francis
would say and not "RAAACK" music. I've learned many things during this
process. Things about feel, time, sound and soul. I've learned about "
The Land", "Riding The Bus", "Blaggin' it", and what my porn name
would be, (Lady Flourtown).
I hope you enjoy it as much as we do...but we don't really care ;-)
Hope to see you at one of the shows this Fall!!!
sincerely
bwk
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"I have seen the broken sky turn blue."
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