rachel (fear of heights, the sort ofs)--songs, vox, keys, detritus
ben landsverk (foh, holcombe waller and the healers)--viola, vox, detritus
chris robley (foh, the sort ofs)--guitars, vox, detritus
arthur parker (trashcan joe, foh)--bass, vox, detritus
john stewart (foh, the sort ofs)--drums, vox, detritus
Influences
Randy Newman, Lynda Barry, Olympia Binewski, Eeyore, discomfort, Fruko!, Elliott Smith, Annie Ross, Betty White, Freddie Mercury, teevee, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sheri S. Tepper, Ron Burgundy, Shaun Tan, crossword puzzles, Schutz, Jabbawockeez, Ramblin' Rod, Rusty Nails, morbid curiosity, Monteverdi, Larry David, Stanislaw Lem, Burt Bacharach, psoriasis, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Leonard Pitts Jr., Dorothea Lange, winter daphne, Majid Majidi, Stevie Wonder, Remedios Varo, Charles Ives, a melancholy disposition, Strindberg & Helium, Little Lulu, La Presion, Hugo Distler, Star Trek, Nichols & May, Nikola Tesla, obituaries, Elly Ameling, Gloria Steinem, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Rachel Carson, Marvel Comics, Argh!Yle! (DC), Joss Whedon, BBC costume dramas, Bela Bartok, Tom Jones, Corin Redgrave, Fred Astaire, peevishness, Ann & Nancy Wilson, Randy Cohen, Carolyn See, books, The Beatles, Clara Rockmore, Deerhoof, Jane Austen, iconoclasm, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Ann Evans, a nervous breakdown, Goodwill, Shane MacGowan, Elinor Lipman, isolation, Netherlandish painters, Planet Unicorn, Amanda Plummer, Bobby Hill, Debbie Drechsler, movies, Albert Brooks, Niatia Jessica Kirkland, Benjamin Britten, Barbara Mertz, Kip Dynamite, outside, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, The Daily Show, Samuel Barber, The Colbert Report, a cursed soft hide, my husband Jay, my sister Katie, friends, haters, my cat Rosie, the absurd and beautiful world.
Sounds Like
a work in progress.
SOME PAST SHOWS
please note upcoming shows above to the right!
(PAST SHOW: Rachel + band)
Doug Fir Lounge
June 19
Rachel Taylor Brown + Band
Sophe Lux
Per Se
(PAST SHOW: Rachel + band)
Black Forest
June 12
(PAST SHOW: Rachel trio)
Mississippi Studios
May 24, 2008
True Stories--courtenay hameister, jim brunberg, mark acito, chelsea cain, stacy bolt, scott poole, rachel taylor brown
(PAST SHOW: w/ FOH)
NW Tour, April 30-May 4, 2008
(PAST SHOW: Rachel + full band)
PORTLAND CD RELEASE SHOW HALF HOURS WITH THE LOWER CREATURES
Mississippi Studios
April 5, 2008, 10pm
w/ Kaitlyn ni Donovan and Isolade, and The Brothers Young (formerly Fourever Young)
(PAST SHOW: Rachel trio)
Mississippi Studios
February 16, 2008, 10pm
w/ Ali Wesley (superXXman) and Ali Ippolito (Heroes & Villains)
(PAST SHOW: w/ FOH)
Berbati's
January 24, 2008, 9pm
(PAST SHOW)
Wednesday January 9, 2008
rachel + trio @ Doug Fir Lounge
in music we trust showcase
w/ scotland barr, michael dean damron
(PAST SHOW)
Thursday December 20, 2007
rachel @ w/ Cappella Romana, Portland Baroque Orchestra
russian baroque xmas. music by titov, bortniansky. 4 shows.
(PAST SHOW)
Saturday December 8, 2007
(w/ chris robley & foh) Mars Bar
seattle cd release show for "drunken dance of modern man in love."
(PAST SHOW)
Thursday December 6, 2007
rachel @ the old church/WORKS art & music
rachel trio (chris & ben). a night combining art show, poetry and music, curated by matthew henry curl of jonah. with the dimes, and chris robley & the fear of heights.
(PAST SHOW)
Friday November 9, 2007
(w/chris robley & foh) CD RELEASE SHOW, Berbati's
release party for "the drunken dance of modern man in love." w/ leviathan, fernando.
(PAST SHOW)
Thursday October 18, 2007
(w/chris robley & foh) Holocene
leigh marble's cd release. :) foh, jared mees.
(PAST SHOW)
Wednesday September 26, 2007
(w/ chris robley & foh) WEST COAST TOUR
9/26-10-13. portland-eugene-chico-sacramento-san francisco-los angeles-san diego-tucson-phoenix
(PAST SHOW)
Saturday September 22, 2007
rachel @ The Press Club
w/ the lovely kaitlyn ni donovan.
(PAST SHOW)
Saturday September 15, 2007
(w/ the sort ofs) LiveWire Radio Show, the Aladdin Theater
also stars of track & field, storm large.
(PAST SHOW)
Wednesday September 12, 2007
rachel @ Barbara Mitchell Cocktail Hour, the White Eagleheld the second wednesday of every month, cocktail hour is more than just another songwriter showcase. it's a cross-genre community event curated and hosted by music industry veteran barbara mitchell. each event features short sets from some of the nw's finest songwriters as well as occasional national special guests. songwriters from genres as varied as rock, country, experimental, folk, punk, alternative and garage have graced the stage, finding new audiences willing to support their craft.
w/ kaitlyn ni donovan (isolade, high violets), matt mencovcik (saeta, ms. led).
(PAST SHOW)
Friday August 31, 2007
(w/ chris robley & foh) Mississippi Studios
fear of heights, derby.
(PAST SHOW)
Friday August 17, 2007
rachel @ Xtabay
w/ treva jackson, per se.
(PAST SHOW)
Wednesday July 25, 2007
(w/ the sort ofs) PDXPopNow! Music Fest
(PAST SHOW)
Wednesday July 11, 2007 @ 9pm
rachel @ Barbara Mitchell Cocktail Hour, the White Eagle
rachel taylor brown, nick jaina, mike coykendall, jon garcia, chris robley.
(PAST SHOW)
Friday June 29, 2007
(w/chris robley & foh) sunset tavern presents PDXplore
seattle club features portland artists.
(PAST SHOW)
Friday June 1, 2007
rachel @ the Mission Theater--Siren Nation Benefit
beth ditto & marisa anderson, rachel taylor brown, sarah dougher, laura gibson, the mighty ghosts of heaven, stephanie schneiderman and more. www.sirennation.com
(PAST SHOW)
Sunday May 27, 2007
rachel @ Alberta Street Public House
solo
RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN: Half Hours with the Lower Creatures
Supporting the USA and fighting terrorism at Hot Dog on a Stick.
RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN: 7 Small Winter Songs
Alternative Christmas Carols for the Post-Modern Holidays.
RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN: Ormolu
Icarus's poor legs stick out of the placid pretty sea.
RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN: Jonah Days
"...the blurred line between dream and waking." dave mazza, the portland alliance
RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN: Do Not Stare
"...thoughtful music for the thinking person." s.p. clarke/two louies
Living in an old house in SE Portland with her beloved husband, Jay, and cat, Rosie, Rachel makes sometimes disturbing yet ultimately sensible songs, mostly on the piano. She’s not a summer-lover and avoids the sun except on cool to cold days. She reads a lot and watches too much tv.
She used to get out a lot more but worried frequently about going crazy. Then she had a nervous breakdown and was a hermit for about 8 years, during which she wrote a lot. She writes a lot still.
Her music reflects a love/hate relationship with humanity and persistent awe at the beauty and horror in the world. Trying to capture that sweet and sour thing in a song is what she’s mostly trying to do.
Half Hours With the Lower Creatures and her previous two records, 7 Small Winter Songs and Ormolu were all recorded in Portland, Oregon with audio midwife and Jackpot! Studios mainstay , Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Menomena, Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus).
Some have called her a mix of Frankenixon (Sword of Exactly) and Charles Ives, w/ sprinklings of Randy Newman and Kate Bush. Other names that have come up are Rufus Wainwright, PJ Harvey, American Music Club. A local critic has dubbed her music “creep pop.”
"Brown looked outward at a troubling world and discovered some of the haunting, humorous and ultimately beautiful songs that appear on her latest CD, Half Hours With the Lower Creatures. Brown has a gift for channeling her inner demons into a mesmerizing world of sound...distant, ethereal harmonies, toy pianos, guitars on overdrive and various swirling effects." Robin Hilton, NPR's Second Stage
"A marine biology textbook from the early 20th century inspired Portland singer/songwriter Rachel Taylor Brown to pen her latest breathtaking offering. A fanatic of the works of Vonnegut and Lynda Barry, Half Hours with the Lower Creatures finds Brown at odds with the world within her own element — the storyteller — yet in the end, she manages to paint a stark and brutally honest portrayal of taboo themes such as consumerism, murder, isolation and religion with unflinching valiancy. With a vocal delivery on par with the fiery barks of Kate Bush and soft lilts of Eleanor Friedberger...the one spirit that Brown channels throughout the album’s breath is Paul McCartney’s. During the rocking “Abraham and Isaac,” one can almost hear McCartney’s warble slice through the roar of the guitar solo, or the twosome sitting side-by-side at the piano during “Another Dead Solider in Fallujah.” However, unlike the Englishman, Brown is unafraid to saturate her pop songs in gloom-and-doom, defying the belief that a sad pop song can’t be a catchy one." Chris Sabbath, West Coast Performer Magazine
"It's like a Sergeant Pepper for a decade lacking in hope. The opening track, "Hemocult/I Care About You," may chirp and plink like the soundtrack to a trippy video from the 1960s, but it's the right introduction to the unique sonic world that's encompassed in this plastic disc like a weird playground in a snow globe. Brown and co-producer Jeff Stuart Saltzman have twisted and woven Brown's off-kilter songs (and "songs") into a forceful and intriguing suite that uses some of the conventions of rock and pop - from the Beatles to PJ Harvey, from Laurie Anderson to noise-rock - but in unexpected combinations that somehow always make a kind of sense. ...Rachel Taylor Brown isn't like most singer-songwriters, and Half Hours with the Lower Creatures isn't like most CDs....the poetry of 21st century disillusionment. Just in case you were looking for it." Jon Sobel, Blogcritics Magazine
"Regina Spektor + The Beatles (White Album) + Kate Bush = Rachel Taylor Brown.
Rachel Taylor Brown starts you off with the assurance, “You’re alright./ This will only hurt a bit,” and then proceeds to take your senses for one helluva ride. This album features everything from a mini rock-opera (“Abraham and Isaac”), to “Hemocult”: seven minutes of white noise taken from a mall, layered together with ethereal vocals and toy piano accompaniment. Light and bouncy melodies and haunting ballads offset strikingly political and spiritual themes so that the album never feels weighed down, or comes across as preachy. Brown has put together a bold, highly intelligent album that no one, musician or poet, should miss."
Kat Kellermeyer, SLUG Magazine
"I was spellbound by the new album by Rachel Taylor Brown, a Portland, Ore., singer/songwriter who's a true original. Brown's not a typical singer/songwriter on any level. These songs are eccentric, often fractured bits of verse punctuated by strange sounds and haunting background vocals. Taylor's vision (is) rendered with intimacy, clarity and a good dollop of uncommon imagination. Half Hours is truly a fascinating record, probably the most original and provocative song cycle released by a woman in the U.S. so far this year."
Kevin Renick, Playback:STL
"Though not one of Portland’s widely known talents (yet), singer/songwriter/pianist Rachel Taylor Brown can certainly lay claim to one of the city’s most imaginative musical minds. Her sparse, 2006 mini-album Ormolu firmly established a fruitful and satisfying musical relationship with producer Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Sleater Kinney, Stephen Malkmus). Half Hours with the Lower Creatures takes a bold step forward in Brown’s musical arc, utilizing the Fear of Heights band and pushing them into some stunning prog-like arrangements, with pointed lyrics questioning our “higher” moral authority.... It’s an album that is all too easy to obsess over, chock full of headphone moments and subtle-yet-stunning church-like washes of vocals providing intentional juxtaposition to pointed lines... It connects on that visceral level and is so musically well-thought-out, one wonders just where Rachel’s musical journey will lead next."
Michael Fortes, Bullz-eye.com Bullz-eye.com/Interview
"Brown's chamber-arena tunes--think Tori Amos fronting early Genesis--embody subject matter serious and disquieting. Similar to Laura Nyro, Mia Doi Todd or Kate Bush, Brown layers ashen lyrical issues with astute arrangements, utilizing everything from ringing telephones to Bach-like trimmings. Grade: A."
Doug Simpson, Campus Circle
"Rachel Taylor Brown tramples on the weeds of cliche and anything else that could cloud her paradise and leaves nothing but a beautiful album. Make sense? Buy it."
Rick Barnett, Synthesis Weekly
"Half Hours with the Lower Creatures is not an album for the ultra-religious, who would probably call it blasphemous, and Rachel Taylor Brown a minion of the devil. This is a beautiful album on the outside, but incredibly disturbing lyrically. It’s not an easy listen, but it does cause you to think. Anything that can make you think about and study ideas that have been taken for granted for generations needs to be heard, if for nothing else, to solidify what you believe, regardless of what that is."
Tim Wardyn, Ink 19
"Brown plays with mod-popper Chris Robley in local outfits the Sort-Ofs and the Fear of Heights, but her solo work doesn’t make a listener’s job easy. It defies genre classifications or comparisons to other artists; her lyrics often elude rational understanding—heck, she’s just plain strange. Silly love songs these ain’t. “Hemocult” shares its name with Hemoccult, a cancer test detecting (in the words of its manufacturer) “occult blood in the stool.” From that point, Brown sifts through our culture’s shit, wondering why it’s so damn ill. “Passion” amounts to a musical review of Mel Gibson’s infamous torture-porn Bible epic and might be Brown’s first truly great composition, rivaling Terry Allen’s “Dogwood Tree” in milking lyrical profundity from the crucifixion. Brown’s music (pretty as it sometimes is) doesn’t make for “easy listening.” She never lets herself get away with easy writing, arranging, playing or singing. Life is hard; art imitates life; and this is art as hard—and ultimately rewarding—as life itself." Jeff Rosenberg, Willamette Week
"Brown covers a lot of ground, but she manages to do it with control and poise throughout. Hooks on either the piano or the guitar set the base for a full band performance track to track that is tight and aggressive. From the beginning, Brown shows that there are few boundaries to her work, and within that wide space she has nearly universal strength...you'll be in for a helluva album. Who knew?" Dan Shvartsman, 30MUSIC.com
"...permeated with an aching honesty. A singer, songwriter and pianist, Brown makes music that reaches into sometimes painful parts of the human heart for its power with an emotional forthrightness some artists struggle all their lives to achieve. A tremendously accomplished album, with a depth of craft underscoring Brown's musicianship. It is, in other words, the real deal." Luciana Lopez/The Oregonian
"If you spend a lot of time reviewing local music, you hear a lot of the Chris Cornell guy singing over a “dunh dunh dunh!” guitar line, or those screamer-Kinney female vocalist clones, or the keyboard duos that Just! Want! Dancing! As such, when something different comes along, it merits a further look. So, what exactly is this warbling-but-better-than-that beautiful thing that has landed in my mailbox today? Why, it’s Rachel Taylor Brown’s new album, Half Hours With the Lower Creatures! The vampy piano, quiet-loud dynamics, and bass instrumentation recalls Ben Folds Five, especially in the beginning and ending sections of “Mette in Madagascar,” when the band bounces along, propelling the song. I bet her music will fill the room at Mississippi Studios, and I hope I can make it out." hardlikealgebra.com
"Anyone who’s ever seen a Tim Burton movie knows it’s possible to find the beautiful in the macabre. Local songstress Rachel Taylor Brown does just that on her gorgeous new album, her clear, expressive voice drawing forth the sunshine in material that’s lyrically dark and musically complex. It’s on tracks like the opener and “This Is a Song,” however, that Taylor Brown sends shivers down the spine. The voices in her head may be disturbing, but she’s managed to imbue them with enough of a sense of wonder to make them fascinating." Barbara Mitchell/The Portland Tribune
"...an interesting record of rather untraditional boundaries, but clever pop arrangements. Miss Brown likes ugly noises, sharp harmonies and Geraldine Fibbers style guitars. She also likes fun lyrics, occasional operatics, Beatlesque chord changes and the Omnichord (google it, trust me). This record keeps you guessing in a good way, and every song has its distinct character. Recommended." Reax
"Brown realizes that there are plenty of normal albums for normal people already crowding the bins at the local record store. To borrow from Monty Python, Half Hours With the Lower Creatures is "something completely different," odd but intriguing, challenging but never boring, just as its cover suggests." All Music Guide/review
"If you're the kind of listener that likes things safe and familiar, this disc may be a bit much for you. Rather than create predictable music, Brown lets her music take her all over the place. Some of the tracks on this album are surprisingly complex and orchestrated (readers might want to take note of the fact that many unorthodox instruments were used in recording these tracks). There's a lot to take in here...as Rachel proves she is much more than a mere flash in the pan. Her music may be too smart for the average listener...but our guess is that more refined fans will find a lot to love here. Cool inviting progressive pop tracks include 'Passion,' 'Another Dead Soldier in Fallujah,' 'Vireo,' and 'Love, the Omnichord.' Very mature sounding stuff. (Rating: 5+)" babysue.com/LMNOP
"'Half Hours With the Lower Creatures,' the new release from Portland's Rachel Taylor Brown, opens with ambient noise that slowly builds into an ominous dreamlike pulse. If Ennio Morricone could be convinced to score a nasty slasher film he would do well to come up with something as eerily evocative. It's an appropriate start to the bleak and often harrowing album. Inevitably, Brown's art-pop will receive comparisons to Tori Amos and Regina Spektor, but it more closely resembles Supper's Ready-era Peter Gabriel. "Abraham and Isaac" is representative of the album's ugly beauty. "You always hurt the one you love," she imagines Abraham sighing as he prepares to sacrifice his son." There Stands the Glass
"Brown is the type of songwriter that, regardless of the underlying musical content, delivers song after song of complete and utter fascination. This traces back to her ability to analyze the actions and possibilities of human nature, doing so entirely with an unbiased mindset. Her lyrical content delivers a variety of topics, with politics, religion, and history incorporating themselves seamlessly alongside the constant etchings of sociological analysis... When Half Hours With the Lower Creatures is released on May 6th, fans of her ardent portrayals should be quite pleased with the budding Portland-based songwriter... a flourishing singer/songwriter with a future as bright as the sun." ObscureSound.com
"Rachel Taylor Brown's latest album, "Half Hours With the Lower Creatures," is another positively breathtaking album from this musical chameleon. When Brown is not performing her own material, she lends her voice to various classical groups around town, as well as playing keyboards and singing alongside Chris Robley. But it is within her own creative vision that this supremely talented singer/songwriter really blossoms, bringing to mind Vashti Bunyan's roundelays and the furious, dramatic pop of American Music Club." Bob Ham, livepdx.com, 2/14/08
"I was praying that this album wouldn't end up being a dud--especially coming on the heels of her brilliant 2006 release "Ormolu." To be honest, I've been hording this little gem for the past two weeks and listening to it continuously. Perhaps becoming a little obsessed with it. For those of you not from the Portland area or a regular to my station or currently not residing on planet Earth, Rachel Taylor Brown is the best fucking artist that you've never heard of. PERIOD. And "Half Hours With the Lower Creatures" is perhaps the album of the decade. The album is a cornucopia of layers and sounds--a truly amazing ride. I give major props to both RTB and Jeff Stuart Saltzman for putting together such an amazing creation." Mark Collins/wot90s radio
"It won't be out till spring, but on Rachel Taylor-Brown's new CD Half Hours with the Lower Creatures, she has put it all together…her classical training and performing experience (Cappella Romana), her poetic talents and commercial possibilities. She writes, sings, plays piano and eleven other instruments. It was co-produced and recorded by Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Stephen Malkmus, Sleater-Kinney, Menomena). Remember you heard it here first. At last, she may be the next big thing to come out of Portland. Couldn't happen to a nicer girl, too." Tom D'Antoni, livepdx.com, 2/6/08
"Rachel Taylor Brown has really outdone herself with her upcoming album 'Half Hours With The Lower Creatures' due out this May 6th (2008). If you already love her in 'regular strength' then get ready for her in 'concentrate' because that's exactly what this sounds like. You newbies will have to go listen (and please do) because she's not easy to describe. What I hear is an oft quirky-noir vibe with elements reminiscent of The Beatles tucked in here and there." Frank Gualtier, Seven of Eleven
"Portland, Oregon singer, songwriter and pianist Rachel Taylor Brown has a quirky, alt-pop sound that merges a dark blend of chamber music with an almost glam-tinged arena rock ambiance, all driven by eccentric lyrics that tackle difficult (and often unpleasant) subjects...her writing approach and style is as complex, haunting and striking as it is demanding." Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
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(press for "ormolu"/2006)
"Aimed at that mysterious vulnerable spot between your heart and stomach. If singer-songwriter Rachel Taylor Brown's third release, 'Ormolu,' needed to be summed up in a single word, it would have to be 'melancholic.' But 'pensive' could work well, too, as would 'brooding,' or to keep it simple, 'sad.' And 'beautiful' would be apt as well.....And that's the difficult artistic trick Brown has pulled off with 'Ormolu.' She's managed to construct a quick listen that feels almost epic, an album that demands to be encountered and examined again and again. " The Oregonian
"'Upright Man'" truly showcases Brown's voice and songwriting skills; the image she conjures of a man being trampled, almost peacefully, by a steady stream of foot traffic while repeating, "I'm under you" and "I'm a good man," is desperately sad, but ultimately very human and empathetic." Willamette Week
"Her voice sounds pure and gorgeous; her songwriting and sparse, piano-based arrangements are classic. Ormolu (is) a collection of hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking songs that illuminate what happens when love turns into something poisonous and people turn into something other than what we wanted." The Portland Tribune
"Brown never loses the humanity of each of the characters she creates, in the same way that Breugel could record our follies while also expressing the love he felt for our silly species. As with her past releases, Brown exercises her considerable range as a vocalist, reminding us of her classical work and her ability to put that to use to create dark expressionist tonal worlds like the ones found on Ormolu. Think Randy Newman meets Stravinsky." The Portland Alliance
"Delicate, contemplative and beautiful in its melancholy, Rachel Taylor Brown's music will wend its way into your soul, and there it will stay. A truly remarkable and unique talent worthy of your attention and further exploration" MastanMusicHour
"Ormolu is only 23-1/2..minutes long and I guarantee that you will keep hitting the replay button on your CD player... over...and over... and over... Hell, I played it back to back five times in a row. This is a must have...will be in my TOP 10 list for album of the year." [Ormolu was named 2 Album of the Year] WOT90s Radio
"Unlike anything else... incredible... a completely unique visionary." Mississippi Studios
"Each precious piece of music deliciously served on its own, unique emotional platter." Apotheosis di Musica
“Uncompromising in her writing, willing to imbue her songs with the artful attack of dissonance, storm and stress, and lyrics that will rip your heart out. Part madwoman in the attic, part pop-diva, Rachel is a crazy talent.”
Cutthroat Pop Records
You found my playlists! Glad you are able to see how much I enjoy "Half Hours". Come play some songs on my show - I'd be honored. We could even pre-record so you don't have to get up at that ungodly hour. :)
hey sweet lady I see you may be free this friday. if you are feeling like hearing some Acoustic Minds we are playing at the Aladdin yes love that room, but eek its a biggie :) would love to have you there if you can make it we play at 8pm SHARP if not we hope you are doing great. love the new album art?? its pretty "genesis" like (cover art wise) love that!! xoxoxo
Mangy Squirrel Grows Hair on Head! The once completely hairless, seemingly fated to suffer a horrible death, mangy squirrel known as "gollum-ette" stated to grow some fuzz about the face. Feeder supplier Kaitlyn ni Donovan beams" Well I hope the supply of peanut butter with flax seed may be helping. We just wish the best for that miracle squirrel. We are doing our best to see no mange is spread."
Later in news: Brother house cats get fired from job as security at bird feeder for falling asleep on the job.
While on duty with a feeder right above there heads The two brothers known as "squeak " and "possum" slept quite decadently in the flower boxes attached to the fences inches from the feeder while jays helped themselves.
mwah! I kiss you back. I'm recovering from knee surgery in my recliner. Headed to the beach for a week to further convalesce while eating fish in all forms. Omega 3's you know.
I played "Passion" the other night on KMHD and just before it, played a recording of Nick Tosches saying, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." I got chills when I started your tune after that.
