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Fire Season
© 2007 Michael W. Borgsdorf (format: CD-R)
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Homemade suburban folk-blues.
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I record my music at home. I write songs based around a personal mythology nostalgic for summers in rural Northern Michigan lakeside ghost towns, steeped in dorm-room acoustic jam sessions and versed in basements and bars of Southern Michigan college towns. I followed the muse to Los Angeles. Instead of a rock star, I became a husband and father and graphic designer. I'm influenced by home cooked meals, gardening, the melancholy sweetness of the San Fernando Valley's bright hazy sunshine. I believe that music (can be / should be / is) art. I go to the park almost every day at lunch break and play lap slide and acoustic and make up songs. I like creaky rusty dusty organic things and strive to create their analogous sounds. I like it when musicians make albums like Sandinista, Tusk, Beggars Banquet, Workingman's Dead, Good Morning Spider, Quicksand / Cradlesnakes. I like it when musicians seem like they HAVE to make the music they make. If my music was a cookie it would be homemade oatmeal raisin. If I was in a band, I'd record live in the room. Since I'm not, I record all my songs in linear fashion, as a performance, singing and playing acoustic guitar live in the room. I enhance / color / fill in with overdubs of more instrumentation & percussion, like half-broken Radio Shack Moog synth, Lowrey home organ, plastic jugs and wooden shakers, lap slide. The low-budget recording becomes part of the presentation. Birds chirp, kids play and dogs bark and find their way onto the tape, and that's fine. Organic and rough-hewn. Homemade suburban folk-blues.
Fire Season is ten tracks, approximately thirty minutes. It is a homemade CDR in a cardboard sleeve handmade from reclaimed folders for minimal plastic usage / environmental impact and maximal every one is a little bit differentness. Those who like "Beggar's Banquet" by the Stones, "Bring it On" by Gomez, "Workingman's Dead," Sparklehorse, Iron and Wine or Califone may enjoy this.