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Mono Is King! by Chris Preston
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fave it 70's Rock | 70's Pop
17 tracks | 42 minutes
Released Sep 2006
on Beverwyck
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:19 The Guitar lyrics BUY MP3 00:19 The Guitar lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:19 The Guitar
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Rawly recorded (in mono.) guitar pop saturated by 70s AOR and American musical theatre; an ambitious debut by a well-meaning analog recordist who had no idea what playing every instrument yourself can do to your mind.
Bio / Background
They say that you have your whole life to write your first album. Though I wrote the songs mostly in 1996, I definitely tried to cram a lifetime of experience into the songs and the grooves. I was out to prove a lot with "Mono Is King!" about my talent, technology, music, you name it. Oh such purpose. The whole thing is a nod to AM radio in the 70s, which I loved so well. The album is in mono (meaning not in stereo) just like the music was that came out of my transistor when I was a kid. I recorded the record on 8 track and mastered it on quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape. I rejected all special effects and digital technologies, leaving only distance (how loud something was in the mix) to make my statement. Some of the arrangements are pretty thick for such a comparatively primitive approach.
In the theme of distance, most of the songs on "Mono Is King!" were about the self-imposed isolation of ambition, and the longing for connection that always lay beneath the exterior.
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