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About Me

i am henry derek. i am very passionate about life and death. i was born & raised in a little town in georgia. i've always loved to sing & my mammie taught me how. this is some of my music...to the boy elis is derived from a poem by Georg Trakl in the twilight of the thousand-year Austro-Hungarian Empire, Trakl was born in Salzburg on February 3, 1887, the son of Tobias Trakl, a successful businessman, and his wife, Maria, whose passions were music and her collections of furniture, glass, and porcelain with which she filled a spacious house overlooking a town square...check back for new songs all the time! in the works & upcoming is The Sweet Meat Love and HOLY Cult album featuring jarboe of Swans, members from The Changelings, Amber Asylum & more.

Click here to download my debut EP

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/05/2008
Band Website: www.myspace.com/goddamnthesun
Band Members: hd
Influences: people of color: washington phillips, john jacob niles, john lee hooker, james brown, charley pride, lightnin' hopkins, robert johnson, tiny tim, clarence carter, wesley willis, prince, otis redding, stevie wonder, nick drake, howlin' wolf, roscoe holcomb, bob dylan, nina simone, ray charles, billie holiday, odetta, john fahey, sammy davis jr., waylon jennings, billy ocean, muhammad ali, 2 pac, richard pryor, john balance, boyd rice, billy joel, jermaine stewart, skip james, etc.
Sounds Like: the deep south, blues, folk, psych, gospel. indie, experimental, lo-fi, country, avant-garde, noise, new weird america, anti-folk, call it what you will but it ain't no rock n roll.
Record Label: Pocket Change Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

coffee cans and other idiosyncrasies, another anal adventure

Palm trees aren't too inspiring, the sun here is all too overwhelming at times, but on thecloudy California days here, I will continue working on the next two releases. Both will be very limited. More...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:46:00 GMT

Limited Edition Handmade CD for Sale NOW

to the boy elis - love is like the cost of livin' ep Each CD is handmade and individually personalized by me. Limited to 50 copies and one of a kind. See complete packaging below! $12 USA / $15 world...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:36:00 GMT

new EP available now

New "love is like the cost of livin' EP available to download for free! On Pocket Change Records: http://www.myspace.com/pocketchangerecords Donations accepted via Pocket Change Records. CDs availabl...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:31:00 GMT

Pocket Change Records Interview

Pocket Change RecordsA glimpse of the future in an interview with an internet label.Post Rock, Ambient, Instrumental, Experimental, Electronic, Psychedelic, Analogue Noise. These are the sounds. The t...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:28:00 GMT

THE PROPHETIC POETRY OF GEORG TRAKL

THE PROPHETIC POETRY OF GEORG TRAKLby Carolyn ForcheGeorg Trakl, arguably the first poet of German Expressionism, began writing poetry in 1904 at the age of seventeen, and after a brief and unsuccessf...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 14:58:00 GMT