2005/10/03 - Monument
Monument was created at the same time as Commemoration, and was my first attempt at any kind of collection of ambient music. I got a lot more into using field recordings, and doing subtle layering of barely audible sounds. Running through the background of part of the album is a 30 minute recording of me spilling my guts about my life and feelings at the time as I walked down a beach on the Oregon coast. As the album progressed I started to incorporate more of my usual synth lines, melodies and vocals, but it still has less lyrics than any other album I’ve made. It has no real statement to make, and is instead content to be reserved, contemplative and thoughtful.
The album is as grey as the hole shown on the cover, and hopefully deeper than it. This is a dense world of sounds, cool and subterranean in feeling as I often like to do, but more like a trip through my subconscious than a journey through an actual place. Themes recurr often if you’re paying attention, and it all leads to what I think turned out to be a sad, beautiful closing few minutes with “Alcohol Empires”, in my opinion one of the best tracks I’ve ever produced.
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1. Moving Throats
2. Flood Pressure
3. How About You Hand Over That Phone
4. Something Ate Him From The Inside
5. Salon Adventures
6. Energy Spike: Fashion Sentence Constriction
7. M80: Sex / Lifestyle
8. The Art of Being Stabbed
9. It Threatens The World
10. Spike Two At*Eight: Excelsior
11. Late Night Computer Incident
12. Spike Following Nine: CATCH!
13. Alcohol Empires (And Three More)
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