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14 tracks | 41 minutes
Released Dec 2006
on Rough Fish Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:59 rhibrhumba lyrics BUY MP3 00:59 rhibrhumba lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:59 rhibrhumba
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:14 Porta One lyrics BUY MP3 03:14 Porta One lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:14 Porta One
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:39 Are You Here to Dance? lyrics BUY MP3 02:39 Are You Here to Dance? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:39 Are You Here to Dance?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:25 Any Given Tuesday lyrics BUY MP3 04:25 Any Given Tuesday lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:25 Any Given Tuesday
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 Early Bird lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 Early Bird lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 Early Bird
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:31 nordeast berlin lyrics BUY MP3 01:31 nordeast berlin lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:31 nordeast berlin
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:55 Final Destination (Part XLV) lyrics BUY MP3 02:55 Final Destination (Part XLV) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:55 Final Destination (Part XLV)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:52 Word to Hold Onto lyrics BUY MP3 02:52 Word to Hold Onto lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:52 Word to Hold Onto
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 Fancy Mansion Party lyrics BUY MP3 03:57 Fancy Mansion Party lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 Fancy Mansion Party
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:40 Doesn't it Break Your Heart? lyrics BUY MP3 03:40 Doesn't it Break Your Heart? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:40 Doesn't it Break Your Heart?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:53 che lives in penguins lyrics BUY MP3 00:53 che lives in penguins lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:53 che lives in penguins
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:35 Let Me Have the Sunrise lyrics BUY MP3 03:35 Let Me Have the Sunrise lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:35 Let Me Have the Sunrise
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:11 Electric Coffee lyrics BUY MP3 05:11 Electric Coffee lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:11 Electric Coffee
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:13 Fancy Mansion Party (Reprise) lyrics BUY MP3 02:13 Fancy Mansion Party (Reprise) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:13 Fancy Mansion Party (Reprise)
Sometimes trippy, dark pop record built around acoustic guitars and intriguing lyrics set to experimental arrangements ranging from stark to totally groovy.
Bio / Background
Joe Fahey is a Minneapolis-based songwriter & guitar player. He has played bass and guitar in various cellar-dweller, and occasionally-gigging, rock and blues bands starting in the late 70s; always careful to stay out of the way of the strobe light.
Born in Minneapolis in 1959, slightly downstream from the University of Minnesota where he would later earn a Fine Art degree with a concentration in painting, prepping him for many years in the Janitorial field; Joe eventually became a Freelance Graphic Designer. He specializes in book & magazine publishing, designs children’s book covers and actually worked as a model in a How-to book about roofing.
↓ more ↓Joe moved around the country quite a bit as a kid living in Hyde Park, New York (where he saw the Beatles on the the Ed Sullivan show, in other words, he watched TV); Boulder, Colorado during the colorful 1960s as the Boulder Beatniks gave way to the Boulder Hippies; Auburn, Alabama during one of the George Wallace regimes; the small town of Marengo, Illinois located somewhere between Rockford & Chicago where one of the most popular ways to pass the time was cruising the country roads listening to Pink Floyd and smoking pot. But Joe took no part in that, umm activity because he was more involved in ... uhhh ... let’s move on, or back.
As a Junior High Schooler in Alabama, a new series of “mini-courses” were added to the curriculum and it may as well have been called the “DIY Rock & Roll Band Prep School.” The first quarter was “Typing” which would come in very handy for someone who might write a band newsletter later on. Next was “Pin-hole Camera Photography” which also proved to be a valuable training ground for self-promotion. 3rd Quarter was “Drama” which comes into play heavily if you know any musicians. And finally, the crown jewel “Guitar” or “Git-Tar” as it was pronounced.
The guitar teacher was the choir teacher and was given a crash course in guitar and she was about 2 weeks ahead of the students. For the most part it was a room full of kids strumming off-beat to “I Think I Love You” by the Partridge Family. At the end of the session, the students performed for the school, sitting on bales of straw and playing songs by Johnny Cash and fellow Alabaman Hank Williams Sr.
Around 1990, he formed a band called Carp 18 with Paul Schmitt and Dave Helgerson, They were together until 2000, releasing a cool CD called Russian Racehorse in 1997.
Carp 18 took a record length hiatus to "get it together" following the infamous Y2K Disaster and its lingering effects. But, everything seems cool now and Carp 18 is back together playing & writing music and celebrating the release of their 2nd album/record/CD "bug rump."
Joe also released his solo debut "Tote Bag" on October 31st (Halloween), 2006.
Joe also has played in an acoustic duo with Tom Herbers, acoustic jazz standards with vocalist Sarah Greer and currently plays in a 3-piece acoustic cover band (Johnny Cash/ Beatles/DEVO) called "The Bottom 40" with djembe-ist Kraig Olmstead and bassist Mike Mahin.
1. rhibrhumba (0:59)
joe: baritone guitar, non-tubular bells,
no lyrics
tom herbers: wurlitzer sideman, acoustic slide guitar, theramin, tabla
aquarium community: background vocals
percussion by bell & howell, great
northern railway & the freight elevator
2. Porta One (3:14)
joe: acoustic guitar, electric guitars, bass, fuzz bass
tom: skeletons-playing-fussball sounds
3. Are You Here to Dance? (2:39)
joe: acoustic guitar, electric guitars
tom: bass
kraig olmstead: drums
4. Any Given Tuesday (4:25)
joe: acoustic guitar, bass, arp, piano,
high-strung guitar
tom: casio, electric guitar, carnival-cruise-line-shuffleboard sounds
5. Early Bird (2:59)
joe: electric guitars, acoustic guitar,
banjo, pump organ (he said pump organ)
tom: bass, chamberlin, stylophone
bob herbers: drums and short notice
6. nordeast berlin (1:31)
joe: electric guitars, munchkin music &
rainy nights
tom: airwaves
7. Final Destination (Part XLV) (2:55)
joe: bass, electric guitars, acoustic guitar,
dead poet thievery
tom: piano, shakers, snare, pigeons-
eating-angel-food-cake sounds
john bonham: kick drum
charlie watts: snare drum
ringo starr: floor tom
d.j. bonebreak: tom-toms
keith moon: clave
8. Words to Hold Onto (2:52)
joe: acoustic guitars, electric guitar, talk box, handclaps, vox jaguar, rabid muskrat love explosion
tom: bass, acoustic slide guitar, shakers, stomp box, triangle (a vintage grimley)
kraig: drums
9. Fancy Mansion Party (3:57)
joe: electric guitars, accordion,
pump organ (light chuckle)
tom: optigan loop (buh-duh-dah-DAH-dah), electric guitar
mike whitney: bass
logan erickson: piano, prepared piano
lucy the sheepdog: howling
10. Doesn’t it Break Your Heart? (3:40)
joe: acoustic guitar, silly strings (arp)
tom: wurlitzer electric piano, bass
kraig: congas, tambourine,
shakers, claves
mr. roboto: cold, calculated drum beat
11. che lives in penguins (0:53)
joe: electric guitar, high strung guitar
tom: non-tubular bells
mike whitney: bass
12. Let Me Have the Sunrise (3:31)
joe: acoustic guitar
13. Electric Coffee (5:08)
joe: acoustic guitar, electric guitar
kraig: drums
14. Fancy Mansion Party (Reprise) (2:16)
joe: high-strung guitar
tom: pump organ
train: clang
thomas: crash
Mostly recorded on 8-track tape at Third Ear in Minneapolis during the festive & stress-free holiday season of December, 2004. Most songs were started in a fairly spontaneous manner and finished on the same day. Cassette 4-track recordings were done at Can Crusher Sound & The Scotch Room, Fridley, MN. rhibrhumba recorded while wandering around a switch yard and a warehouse with a laptop using Garage Band and the built-in mics.
Produced by Tom Herbers & Joe Fahey
Mixed, mastered and that kind of stuff by Tom Herbers • Studio assistance by Mike Whitney
Thanks to Mark Downey at Nerve Center for getting the CDs made
Album art, design & some photos by Joe Fahey
Tote Bag photo by Jerry Fahey, London, 1969
Tofte Riviera photo by Kathy Fahey, 2004
Dock photo, plus help putting the dock in, by Dave Helgerson 2006 (thanks, man)
Additional photos by various people
Thanks to Kathy, Ryan & Sean for
making me homesick 24/7
Thanks to my Mom, Mary Sue, Pam, Scott, Paula & Colleen • we miss you Dad
Thanks to Tom Herbers for the relaxed, creative environment and the scared-straight Marine-drill-sergeant/Southern-gym-teacher-with-a-whistle approach to producing and all the hard work ... yes folks, it takes a lot of hard work to be a Hippie these days
Thanks to Carp 18 for finally coming back its nonsenses
Special thanks to Randy Justesen, Steve Hendrickson, Mark McCauley, Mike Whitney, Michele Beardsley, Marcie Stresemann, Kim Horecka, Sarah Greer, Bob Herbers, Kraig Olmstead, Paul Martinson, Logan Erickson, Rev Ripple, Udupi & the Life Aquatic
All songs by Joe Fahey
Tuar Mhic Éadaigh Music
© ASCAP 2006
Rough Fish Records
P.O. Box 21568
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55421
(763)-574-2277
joefahey@carp18.com
www.myspace.com/joefaheymusic
www.myspace.com/carp18
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