Artist Notes:
"The purpose of this cover was to highlight the song’s lyrics and distill its social energy."
Bio:
Dave Scanlon is a composer, guitarist, vocalist, and electronic musician. Scanlon is an active member of the experimental rock band JOBS (fka killer BOB). Scanlon has released music on New Amsterdam Records, Tzadik Records, Hometapes, Clean Feed Records, New Atlantis Records, and Primary Records. He has had the pleasure of performing at Jazz Art Sengawa (Japan), Sapporo City Jazz Festival (Japan), Incline/Decline (Canada), Pop Montreal (Canada), Hopscotch Music Festival (USA), SXSW (USA), Northside Music Festival (USA), and other festivals. He has performed at venues such as Issue Project Room (NYC), Roulette (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Shinjuku Pit Inn (Tokyo, Japan), Yokohama Airegin (Yokohama, Japan), Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA), Casa Del Popolo (Montreal, Canada), and many more. In March 2013, Scanlon was honored to curate The Stone, a not-for-profit art space run by John Zorn. Scanlon's writings on music have been published in Arcana: Musicians on Music VII. In April 2016, Scanlon and quilter Emma Banay presented their collaborative project, Quilt Music, at Interlude Asheville hosted by the Black Mountain College Museum and the Media Arts Project. Scanlon has performed with Otomo Yoshihide, David Behrman, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier, Jessica Pavone, Hayashi Eiichi, Yamamoto Seiichi (of The Boredoms), Nonoko Yoshida, Shannon Fields (Stars Like Fleas, Helado Negro, Leverage Models), Aaron Roche, Jason Ajemian, John Niekrasz, and others
lyrics
Senators
I am a raft on the ocean with undocumented eyesight
And I feel the Gulf Stream
High on that kind of midmorning sunlight,
the kind of light that sells a lie.
And you feel “alright”.
Okay, so,
We made coffee on the hotplate
We ate ramen in the hallway
We identified the exits (just in case).
I know you don't do this most days,
And you're falling for the ‘wrong kind’,
But does it feel all right?
Do I remind you of your dad?
When you were born your father wondered what kind of drunk you would be.
We have spoken up and savaged
I'm an [Object]
You're a [Measuring Tool],
an [Instrument For Shaking Down a Government in Turmoil].
I have left my body.
You are breaking someone's bread for “Progress”.
I am a [Raft On the Ocean]
You are an [Animal Skin Rug]
I don't expect you to embrace this
(and we're both drunk).
If not tonight, maybe next year I'll aspire to something better –
maybe a butcher or a driver –
and I will fill my lungs with you.
When you were born your mother
(glittering, mad to see, neurologically lost),
wondered what kind of Senator you would be.
We won't speak up
Our language fails to find a hold
Sincerity slides, as advertised
Our brothers joined their fathers…sung for banks
And this is not our protest
This is just the end of Progress.
credits
from Greys,
released August 28, 2019
Performed by Dave Scanlon and Louisa Denison. Mixed by Matt Mehlan at The Stuudio.
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