Touching Chicken - Don't Drink the Mating Waters
About the Album

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Don't Drink the Mating Waters is a project I've been working on since I got my first recording too, a Tascam 4-track portastudio, in 1999. Most of the songs I've recorded on my own are collected here. I play and sing everything unless noted otherwise. Feel free to download as you please, but don't redistribute/re-use without letting me know and giving due credit.
Tons of Darkness

Recorded: 2004
My friend Dave and I decided to undertake a project similar to Please Let Your Faith and Patience Be Mine by Jeff Fal. We agreed on a song title, then each separately wrote and recorded a song to go with it. Then we exchanged songs to hear what other came up with. The plan was to have an album's worth of songs at the end, all with identical titles but with completely unique identities. This is as far as we got.
Dirt

Recorded: 2002
a two-part song that includes my best attempt at melodic guitar soloing.
Gorm

Recorded: 2000
i wrote the lyrics for gorm during my final months of my final year at hamilton college when the place had taken on a distinct flavor of bizarre surrealism for me. i spent my entire junior year in europe and when i returned, it was like stepping back into the world i knew, yet everything was different. it was a very strange time.
Less Into More

Recorded: 2000
a song put together with little more than one guitar, a microphone and an effects bank, less into more is very loosely based on one of my high school friends who was diagnosed with cancer.
Nowhere Found

Recorded: 2001
appropriately, this song just sort of came out of nowhere. i still don't understand what it means.
Window Pain

Recorded: 1999
this is the first song i recorded with my 4-track. i am still very happy with its musical concept, if not its execution.
Ralph, Princess und der Hoont

Recorded: 2000
the results of experimentation with my macintosh computer after staying up on a few too many all-nighters at college and listening to too much radiohead.
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