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Matthew Joseph Payne

by Matthew Joseph Payne

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Eliot Lash This album took me by surprise and roped me in with its antique beauty and not-so-antique sense of the unbalanced and self-destructive future of humanity. The harmonies cut their way into my soul, and I want them to stay there. This album is a thing of beauty. Favorite track: The Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices pt. 1.
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Some thirty-odd years apart, pins, posts and arteries intertwined and intermingled with all fourteen of us. You walk on sprained ankle back to the house you were born in, your head pummeled and habroneme, shows us what you've done. Our view here is unobscured, and now we know that yours is too filled up with lacerating tails of demons and ties that bind you to the past and we are here to set you free with these scissors with pewter handles that you've never seen before.
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Love is a bomb in your heart, ready to explode on you anytime. You and me belong together like two peas in a pod. Being with you is like staying on cloud nine. The sun smiles as it rises above the city, the cherry blossums dance in the wind freely. Both of these things describe you well. My heart, overwhelmed by the sight of you, taps a wild beat inside my chest! Bum bum bum! The hole where my heart once laid hurts, for you have stolen my heart. Darling, the bomb in my heart has exploded... boom!
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Fish God 07:30
Getting a head start on regret, a thousand boldfaced pages of text, a labor of love. For you to go and find the truth, the throng will mock and ridicule you, a labor of love. Something for you that you need to continue. Something for you that you might find within you.

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This tape was released in a limited fashion to support the debut performance of Matthew Joseph Payne's own musical material on Thursday February 25th, 2010 at the Starry Plough in Berkeley, California.

It consists of a combination of demo and rehearsal recordings of said material, edited together into a facsimile of the set performed on that date.

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released February 25, 2010

The Players

Jocelyn Bentley-Prestwich: vocals, oboe, percussion
Jason Countryman: vocals, electric piano, electric guitar, 8-string tenor ukelele
André Custodio: percussion (TKoIMD, Fish God)
Brandon Martinez: percussion (Pewter Handles)
Matt Payne: vocals, autoharp, bass guitar, trombone, saw, accordion, electronics
Andrew Wilke: trumpet, flugelhorn, electric piano
Kevin Yuen: bariton guitar, percussion, graphic design


The Music Movers

Ken Mahru: engineering (TKoIMD, Fish God), mixing (all)
Fernando Flores: engineering and mixing (Pewter Handles)
Matt Payne: composition, arranging, production, "engineering" (CBD, PCTaPFT)

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Matthew Joseph Payne Oakland, California

Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer with a flair for the dramatic. Bluegrass, chiptunes, ondes martenot and more swirl through unexpected soundscapes with hidden meanings. Also memes.

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