"mondaytuesdaywednesdaythursdayfriday"
these songs were recorded live to 1/4 " tape, and they are presented in mono. jeremy park co-engineered it with me and helmed the reel-to-reel machine.
whilst putting this together, i was reminded of an obscure in living color sketch where two somewhat dubious youths were interviewed about current events. for each and every societal problem that was posed to them, they offered up the following solution: "put 'em in a big--a big...canister. yeah, a canister....and dump 'em in the sea." in a way, you could say that this project has been my own "big...canister."
many of us have grown accustomed to life being doled out in firmly defined week-long chunks. each monday, it feels like the following friday is quite a distance away, and everything that transpires in between is fairly all-encompassing while it's happening. then, just a few weeks later, unless something especially significant happened, you're hard-pressed to remember much of anything about that once-epic block of time: there's the small talk exchanged with the supermarket cashier two mondays ago...there's the project you struggled with for a few hours at work some thursday last month...there's the stop off at the gas station en route to a friend's apartment on the first sunday in march. while you're capable of recalling that all of the above happened, you generally wouldn't have much reason to do that, so in practice, the details (and in many cases the events themselves) are all but discarded entirely.
i decided to use this format for the songs in the hopes that i might be able to similarly wipe certain nagging feelings from my memory, or maybe just acknowledge a few unseemly habits that i might then be more inclined to break. the relation of each song to its designated day is tangential at best, the idea being that i've semi-arbitrarily wrangled these ideas into an artificial chronological framework (or "canister," as it were) that's just easier to deal with than letting them run amok throughout my everyday routine.
a lot of the music was informed by a book i was reading about popular music in the u.s. throughout the 1950s & 60s. my intention was to catch up on a lot that i had missed, being born in 1985 and all. as i was preparing to start going to school again, time became a factor, so with a few exceptions, i hardly got around to hearing any of it. the descriptions, titles, back stories, and my own limited experiences with older music filled in the blanks just enough to produce a few quick, stylistically misguided songs. they don't aspire to much, but i hope there is some semblance of charm in the scratchy recordings and unflinchingly stark performances.
if you would like to own a physical copy of this, i can make one for you and send it your way.
thanks for reading and listening.
-william cremin
(07.03.07)
