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Like Godzilla towering over Las Vegas in a Manchester United F.C. jacket demanding access to the high roller tables, Japan's Shirt in the Jupon shrieks forth from deep in the heart of Vegas with a blistering, joyous debut full of fuzzy hooks and howling distortion.

"Japanese soloist turns the finest parts of garage, J-rock and psych into pure, catchy chaos." --Las Vegas Weekly

Lyrics and Translations

Weather Report
Motion
Frustration
Distortion
Daddy
Your Cruel Body
Cried Over Sepia October
Curtain
Well, It's My Repeated Dream
Corpus of Love
Love You Baby

Ten organically acoustic songs that suggest Iron and Wine's Sam Beam having a drink with Tom Waits in a lonely Vermont tavern, while Leo Kottke nurses a double bourbon in a dark corner. Includes a cover of Ween's "Sarah."

Here is the first in a series of projects by Still Valley, the musical moniker of one Chris Branaman, a deft instrumentalist and songwriter from the back roads of Medora, Indiana. Here he beautifully and bravely incorporates elements of banjo, acoustic guitar, keyboards, Fender electric, vocal percussion effects and pizza pan to create an evocative landscape of lonely sound.

Four instrumentals and six vocally-driven songs take you through 28 minutes of Branaman's musical vision, his Midwestern roots, and his varied spectrum of influences.

A 5-song EP recorded in a forest studio in 1999 with occasional bizarre freestyled lyrics and Bowie-esque vocal passion. The sound of a human tree falling in the forest 5 times.

Taking its name from a mass mind-control concept from the cult sci-fi novel "Illuminatus!", The Fnords is the brainchild of one Matt Gordon, a young man who, like many, spent his childhood surrounded by cornfields and cultural dissonance. Born In San Antonio, Texas and raised near Columbus, Indiana, Gordon presents a snapshot of his talents and vision as captured during a brief allotment of studio time on luxurious two-inch analog tape.

The songs here were recorded in the summer of 1999 and kept out of circulation until sufficient passage of time deemed it proper to release them to the public.

Instrumental soundtrack themes for those raised on "Silver Spoons," "Back to the Future" and mild to considerable cultural chaos. A veritable "Another Green World" for the New Aeon.

Matthew L. Gordon was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1975 and grew up near Columbus, Indiana. Long before he understood that he possessed vocal pipes of great power(see "The Fnords"), he found the piano and slowly began a love-hate relationship with the cumbersome instrument. After attending college at nearby Butler University in Indianapolis on a few voice scholarships, he sequestered himself in downtown Columbus, bought a Yamaha Clavinova CVP-107 and began teaching piano and vocal lessons on it. He also started noodling around with song ideas, utilizing the 16-track recording capabilities of the digital juggernaut.

Far from having mastered the instrument, he did manage to produce a number of soundtrack-like compositions that ranged from sentimental early 80's yearning(A Tear for E.B.) to early 80's police show themes(Hoboken Heat) to lovelorn midnight stargazing(I Know You're Out There), as well as others inspired by bits of films, lines from arcane books, and the ghosts of former companions.

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