Drunken Sailors
Track Listing
Drunken Sailors is my latest full-length release. These tracks were all written and recorded between 2006 and 2007, once again, in my “Roomcording Studio”; but this time they were recorded with an AT4040 condenser microphone, hooked up to a preamp, and mixed on Cakewalk. So there’s a slight increase in fidelity as I tinkered with these new gadgets, and a slight decrease in fidelity in an attempt to give some parts & tracks that beloved (by me, at least) “lo-fi sound.” The CD was released December 10, 2007.
Acrobat was written only a month or so after Terra Firma, so if I had been a bit lazier with that CD, it probably would have appeared on it. However, I really like the way this version here came out (the one I recorded when I initially wrote the song? Not so much). I decided that I liked Senescence and 1 x 1 a lot, and wanted to re-record them for this CD. So, it crawled out of my catalogue and, well, I guess into my catalogue again, but further down the line in a later release!
So, I can just hear people saying “What’s with track 12?” Well, in this computer age that we live in, you can usually spot a hidden track a mile away. You put a CD into your computer, rip it, and think, “Oh, the last song is 13 and a half minutes and the rest of the tracks are about 2:30? I’m sure there’s a whole mess of silence in there.” I own an MP3 player, and I like to make mix CDs, and, well, I like it when I put something on shuffle, and there’s not six minutes of silence after a song and before another one. But with all that said, I still do like “hidden tracks.” So, track 12 is really what it says it is. And track 13 is your “hidden song.” I separated it in case people just wanted to have Let’s Go Exploring! as its own song, and not have to fast-forward through silence to get to it. I know no one will probably burn the CD with the blank track on there, but that’s the way I intends it, it is, so it’s the ways I’ll keeps it.
Let’s Go Exploring! was also the name of a band I was in with Matt Carnovale and Joe Jamsky. Both the song and the band were named after the last strip of Calvin & Hobbes. Much love goes out to Bill Watterson, as that strip, and Calvin & Hobbes in general is not only an inspiration to this specific song, but to my life. Thank you for all you’ve given us, Mr. Watterson.
Drunken Sailors features a whole mess of my talented friends on it. I listed them below. The album wouldn’t be the same without all their help.
This album was recorded between early-Spring 2006 and late-Autumn 2007 in the Roomcording Studio (my bedroom).
Bird & Moon is based on a comic of the same name by Rosemary Mosco.
Album Artwork by Kristen Ciotti
All songs written by Mike Goldense.
All other instruments and vocals, except where noted below, by Mike Goldense.
Adam Stankiewicz – Drums on 1 x 1
Chris Fleming – Trumpet on Alarm, Satellites (A Short Drag), Directions
The Drunken Sailor Choir appears on Hang Up the Phone:
Chontel Barone, Matt Carnovale, Kristen Ciotti, TJ Debole, Chris Fleming, Adam Mancuso, Laura Sidden, Adam Stankiewicz, Kenny Walker
Copyright 2007, Mike Goldense.