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I recorded this last night – it’s the phenomenal Chris Garneau’s song – he’s an amazing songwriter and a creative friend.
This is the first take – there were three others but they lacked the reality of emotion, even with the little guitar recovery in the first chord change. But this shows emotion and the gravity of the emotional depth contained within the song, which I feel adds to it.
In 2010, I played violin dressed as a “Blue Cowboy” during his live recorded show at the Bellhouse in Bushwick, right when the venue had opened up. It’s utterly strange to see him dressed as a Blue Cowboy on his home page just now. I had no knowledge of this at the time of writing, only adding this sentence after. In 2010 I was smoking American Spirit cigarettes at the time, the ones that came in the teal package. This was poorly calibrated self-medication for a broken heart + the bizarre idea that smoking cigarettes could help dystonia (which is so closely related to Parkinson’s) after reading that people who smoked had 50% less chance of developing other dopamine-related motor diseases. 15 years ago I covered this song. Along the way I got to play violin with legends CocoRosie (in DC) and Peaches (in Berlin). A lot of things have changed – but this song, particularly the lyric ‘I hurt somebody, I love you too, I love you underneath the moon’, is so devastating. Some love is born out of hurt – sometimes caused by our own hearts, sometimes caused by the heart of someone else. He was always ahead of the curve and his lyrics and melodies really touch me still. You can hear my voice break in this, I couldn’t sing the line, “I love you un…” – words allude to the concept but the voice even when silenced still echoes the emotion and idea
“This town is my favorite
and I promise I’ll come back.
Girls I promise you too”
Boys I promise you to”
– Chris Garneau
‘Gas Station Violence‘
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At the heart of my connection with music, as well as what gives me my fearless approach to creativity, is the ability to use the electricity generated through sound to move currents of Qi.
It’s with that same spirit and electricity that I share this piece and name it for the surreal pulp-esque, random violence, that made this neccesary to express through electric creativity, and share.
I hope this gives you courage.
On an musical note :
All the strings were created using sample library. I feel this adds to the gravity as well as the depth. Let me know in some way what you think! I used two antique Himalayan singing bowls, lingam bowls to be specific with a dominant pitch of C and E/F respectively.
It bears mentioning that at the time of writing and recording this I can’t play cello because of a ruptured tendon that requires a few more months to heal.
Thank you for listening. Thank you for reading.