We don’t believe in genres.
We believe in music.
We put our faith in the frequency.
2. pirouettes
You ever manifested someone who felt perfect for you for a time and even though they weren’t forever they helped remind you how beautiful love can be and how much you deserve it? You know when a relationship ends and you have to gently remove those pain fragments as to not destroy your restored faith in love like an archeologist trying to unearth a T‑Rex spine.
Yeah.
I spent a year and a half with my head down in the healing solo. And then she danced in. The kind of beauty that doesn’t have to try at all because it radiates from under the skin. She wore hustle like a perfume and kissed me like she missed me every time I walked in a door. One of those immediate connections so intense that it will make a hardcore Christian believe in reincarnation because you MUST have done this some other lifetime.
The relationship didn’t last. I won’t bore you with the details (DYWMYB) but I will tell you that it was the most honest I have ever been in a relationship (both with a partner and myself) and that I grew a lot from my time with her. And that she’s dope and I wish her all the best.
Post breakup one day I was telling my friend about this song and how it was beautiful but I wasn’t sure about putting it on the album and played it for her. She explained how love is no less present or beautiful after what it was outwardly focused on is gone (way better than that).
When Clarence got here from Texas and heard it he loved it. The only problem was that he wanted to record with an acoustic over it and only had his electric. Right then our dear friend Lejmarc who we’d only known for a couple weeks at that point wandered in unknowingly with a beautiful nylon string guitar.
Clarence didn’t even say hi. He just asked to see the guitar and headed to the lab to record. And this song would not be what it is without it.
This is easily Clarence and Lejmarc’s favorite song on the album. Pirouettes was written super early on in the process and set a precedent for exploring some different feels and sounds on this project. Thanks love.
It’s a delicate dance that devils do but blame the angels that taught it to ’em:
4. deeper than six feet
Long before I wanted to be a rapper I wanted to be Henry Rollins.
I grew up in southern California skating until we bled blasting punk rock music. It’s in my veins. When I started playing with different genres for this album I did a few punk songs. This was the only one that made the cut. Is there an Andru Defeye punk rock album coming soon? Who knows.
My biggest confusion in Sacramento has always been the lack of crossover between our punk scene and our hip hop scene. In cities I’ve been to across the country it’s a natural collaboration. Sacramento is the only city I know where the two don’t really work/play together (with a few exceptions … I see you Destroy Boys). And what goes better with punk rock than trap beats?
Anyway. This is Paul Willis’ favourite song on the album. Which just goes to show we all got a little punk rock in us somewhere:
5. dywmyb
DYWMYB was never intended to be an album cut.
The last song that made that album, DYWMYB was a little rap banger that I worked out to kill some time on one of the last days of recording waiting for Uncle Jay to come over and record his guitar for All the Way Off.
While I’d traipsed a few genres on the album and it had some rap on it, it didn’t have a banger for the club on it. I was okay with this. I’d been talking to a friend of mine who works a lot in the clubs. We were talking about a collaboration and I was trying to get myself into that state of mind so I started banging out this beat. By the time the beat was done the hook had come to mind.
It’s sage advice for ourselves as well as others.
Drink Your Water.
Mind Your Business.
if your night needs a soundtrack
Frequency has dropped, the above tracks and more – album available on Bandcamp.
Send as gift also available, of course.
Completely produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered on the iPad. With musical accompaniment from Clarence Nelson II all the way out of Texas and Sacramento’s own Jay Sales and a few appearances vocally by Diamond Aiko Minori (Diamond key), Chazahyah Yisrael, and Deveon Smith.
And for those of you asking, YES. Frequency will be available on all streaming sites but not until 11 January 2020.
Figured I’d try and make a couple dollars off an amazing album’s worth of hard work before y’all only pay 0.666 cents per play on the Spotifys, Itunes, and Google Plays.
Just so non-artists understand … songs have to be streamed approximately 1,800 times in order to make the $12 that the album is selling for. Physical copies of Ultraviolet made over 20x what streaming has made thus far.
(And the music is always free for anyone who doesn’t got the $12 on it. Just ask.)
(Also I would be remiss not to mention that Library Of MusicLandria loaned us a couple pieces of gear we needed to make this album come to life. Support them Sacramento!)
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Love y’all.
—andru defeye
Flommist Andru Defeye is the Guerrilla Poet Laureate of Sacramento. Copyright © 2019 Andru Defeye.
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