Artist Notes:
"When he asked me to join the project, Shannon mentioned he was curious what a more stripped down piano version would sound like. After improvising out a form and meditating on that for a week or so, it finally hit me the night before it was due and I tracked and mixed the whole thing (Including the singing with a friend sleeping in the other room) that evening until the sun rose."
Bio:
Emanuel Ayvas is a Brooklyn based musician and composer. He founded and leads the band Emanuel and the Fear, co-founded and fronts the band Pale Ramon, and also co-founded a noise/film project named Ayvas and Baller. Pale Ramon just released their debut album this spring. This coming year Emanuel and the Fear is going to be releasing a new full length album, Ayvas and Baller will be releasing a 30m noise/poetry film, and Emanuel will be releasing his first music as a solo artist starting with a suite of solo piano pieces coming out on Historical Fiction Records, followed by a self released EP.
lyrics
Day One
by Leverage Models
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Little towns revive, then they choke. And failure is a turn-on in every farmland small town I know.
We hate to be talked down to but we love it in song.
I won’t tell you it’ll be all right, I don’t know. But it gets better than this (well, not for certain, but it happens).
At 40 years old, sentimental songs can seem like ethical transactions.
Things have to fall apart some more before we know why we care or what we’re here for.
You have dressed yourselves for class war and I am wearing everything that I own.
This is ‘last call’, where are you going? Is there somewhere safe you can stay?
I make you laugh and you make me laugh,
and I know that we both feel like we are parodies of God.
The airwaves are full of no one like us, of models who brag. Isn’t it strange we’re inspired by these people so rich and loud, and so perfect, saying they’ve won?
Day 1: We can do better than this (I’m trying harder to believe it…)
credits
from Greys,
released August 28, 2019
Recorded, Produced, Mixed, and Performed by Emanuel Ayvas
supported by 7 fans who also own “Day One (Leverage Models Cover)”
Service is truly a great album! It is such a crossroads…There are parts that are heavily Stars Like Fleas, parts that are the first twitches of Leverage Models and other parts still that are exactly that: other. Martin Otis
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