Wednesday, June 4, 2014

June 3rd 2014 Release of 'Season X'

'Season X' is completed.
It went together within six weeks.
I have been busy elsewhere with work (the income that music does not provide).
I like the album, I can listen to it for hours on end but, I have no idea at all as to the interest of this album in other people.
Another notch in the belt of MPK Production so that I can listen to my own music?
Admittedly, much of this album could have been far better if it had been collaborated by others that could contribute by expertise and performance.
One person (myself) sat down and laid it down over six weeks.
Enjoy it, it was intended to be emotionally captivating so that the listener would want to hear more.


(front cover)


 
‘Madam Tier’
The Voorholes
2014

Madam Tier, Madam Tier, Madam Tier, Madam Tier,
I’m no longer looking at my younger years.
Madam Tier, Madam Tier, Madam Tier,
I guess I should have so much more to fear.
I guess I should be the one to never stand near.

And now………..
As the sun sets from the sky.
I sometimes just take the time to not even try to ask why.

I’m older now but, I still see it all, I still see it all, I still see it all,
The same as I did before.
That’s no where to go, and that’s no way, and that’s no where to say where I’ve been.
That’s no way to say that it’ll mend.
And it’s not even a vague attempt to look like its mending.

Here I go around again; I’ll keep my head up like the suns good medicine.
When I mend.
When I mend.
When I mend.

And now, I’m just thankful to be out of the storm, just to be out of the storm
I’m just grateful to be out of the storm; jus to be out of the storm.
And everything’s broken on the ground and, it won’t mend.
The sun in the sky is my only medicine

Walk right down and look around, here I am on not so sacred ground
Here I am.
Here I am.
Here I am.
Here I am.
Here I am.
The suns beating down just like when I was younger.
The same old that it was before.


(insert)


 
‘Edna Goes To Waverly’
The Voorholes
2014


(back cover)


 
‘Madam Tier (Reprise)’
The Voorholes
2014


Essentially, I started recording under a different name.
At this point, I'm not so sure just how different The Voorholes are compared to MPK (Band).


It was good to lay down these tracks and finally achieve 
The Voorholes third album.





Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Uncle Fred Sent Me

I had driven through northern New Jersey and The Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York.
It was a busy day involving much handling of product onto a handcart as I would eventually empty an entire tractor trailer.
I returned home pleased with my surroundings but, tired.
So,  I picked up a guitar and turned the microphone pre-amp on and sang 'Uncle Fred'.
I didn't have any great plans for it but, I then recorded the ambient guitar track and decided to just go with it.
I was tired so, it took much more time than usual but, I did record the backing guitar track for the instremntal portion of 'Uncle Fred'; the second part.
I recorded two overlay guitar tracks and then mixed them.
I'm really quite pleased to have a recording like this, it just doesn't come about in a very conventional manor for me.
Fortunately, there never was a 'Uncle Fred' in my life or the entire family that I'm aware of.
I guess, I'm attracted to songs about pain in passing.
Also, the voice in the recording that says "Stop Uncle Fred, Stop" is myself with a pitch increase.
It is not Natalie Wood.
The song is about a character that would equate with a very bad Fred Gailey that was never scripted.
In conclusion, this would be the worst Christmas song ever recorded but, it is a type of rock song that I have been interested in producing.



 


 ‘Uncle Fred’
The Voorholes
2014

Hey kids, gather around, I got a sad song to tell.
Uncle Fred, he’s so much more than dead.
Uncle Fred was using heroin when he was loaded to the core.

On Christmas morning, Uncle Fred stole a house; he slowed down right in front of it.
And, a little girl full of delight, she said this is my plight, this will be my home.

Uncle Fred,
Uncle Fred,
Uncle Fred,
Uncle Fred,
Why did you turn out that way, Uncle Fred?

Uncle Fred, he used heroin five or six times a day;
Uncle Fred.

Stop Uncle Fred, Stop!




 Perhaps, there will be a Voorholes book in which the reader 
will have a opportunity to identify 'Uncle Fred' 
in a assortment of photographs.
Perhaps not.





Live! Just out of bed in Erie, Pennsylvania.





Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Season X: Now What?

Last year in 2013, The Voorholes debuted with four releases consisting of two albums and two EP's.
The last release was a EP titled 'Badly In and Out of Love', it was a mellow end to the year of The Voorholes.
It's now late April 2014, a project titled 'Season X' (season eX) is under way; at this time only two tracks have been recorded.
Admittedly, the project needs direction and dynamic material that these two tracks do not represent.
I am keeping this project open until I'm satisfied with the overall content.
I don't necessarily want Season X to be a extraordinarily hard rock album but, that could be the result of limitation.
I will try to compose above and beyond (It may seem weird to site Buck Owens for 'Above and Beyond' but, it really does move that way around here).

 
 ‘D Part, now, A Part’
The Voorholes
2014

(Departure, now apart)


 This is actually about 80 feet high on the side of US Highway 46 but, 
it would be more fun if it was 277,000 feet  (84,429M) tall 
and drew the Earths atmosphere into a tail 
that would eventually form a ring around the planet 
(maybe only high clouds).






 
 ‘Season X’
The Voorholes
2014