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I've been recording music for over a decade, but this little 5 track EP is the first official release; ironic since the whole thing is a joke. Farm to Table is available on all the streaming services (not just all the major ones, all of em - even Tik Tok 🙄). Here's the brief story:
EJ (the producer on this project) was having a conversation with his wife about how vapid LA is (they live in LA). She said, I bet you could make an album called Farm to Table and LA would eat it up just off the name alone. I said ha.Â
About 5 minutes later I said let's do it. I was on the precipice of trying to turn a few of my hobbies into business ventures, and this was a surprisingly great segway - I could write and record a mini-album as someone else; I could be a character in my own play; I didn't have to stress about the lyrics; I could loosen up on cohesiveness. But most of all I could make 5 different genres of music and see what stuck.Â
And that's what you have here. The following 5 tracks are related only by their titles. I won't say there's no deeper message - it's still me writing... but they're decidedly not about me. So enjoy the easy listens.
Of the 5, Non GMO is the closest to the music I used to make, which I'm not sure I like. It still has that underlying sadness (sorry) but with a spring of hope and understanding. On its face, it's a story of 2 people who didn't love each other enough to put in the work when things got tough.
A little deeper though and it's actually a story of man vs self; struggling to understand when the happiness of others is worth self-sacrifice. Maybe unrelated, but it was written in the dead heat of the pandemic. It also has a quadruple entendre tucked somewhere if you really stretch it. And yes those are actually my (our) tomatoes from my (our) garden.
Inspired by Malcom and the Middle and also Billie Eilish somehow, Whole Grain materialized over the course of a summer with an average temperature of like 99°.
Truly embodying the irony of the project, Whole Grain is the story of a kid who's so self-confident by virtue of the attention he garners, that he misses the obvious advice of those trying to guide him. The quick meals that fuel the hype really just make him malnourished. Fame'll do that to you.
Also, look at that picture. That's hilarious. I'm so good at taking pictures.
This song created itself. Within a few minutes of saying "let's do it" to the project, I sent him a voice recording of how I thought the vibe should go. Either a couple hours or a day later, the instrumental you hear now was complete. I wrote the rest of the lyrics in a few more hours.Â
Free Range (First Pass).wavFree Range is honeslty my most fun song to date. Maybe I should think less. But hey, when in TX, you might as well make something you can line dance to. Also, it's basically child-appropriate, as long as your child can't read between the lines. You're welcome.
Oh and yes I took 200 photos of a Popeye's chicken sandwich in a field. And no I didn't eat it cuz the ants got to it and it was 2 hours cold.
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