Hey there, experimental noise folk band. You guys are called Dragon Ghost, right? I heard you just recorded an album about wizard home invaders using only the sounds of cats fighting and frisbees smashing through windows. You’re so avant-garde!!!
I have a question, though. Imagine you’re moving from Chicago to Savannah, and when the moving company finally delivers your valuables, you find all of your instruments in pieces. Destroyed. Snapped cello, splintered banjo, crushed bell set, broken organ. And your studio time is right around the corner. Can you handle this shit, Dragon Ghost?
When Ryan Graveface (a.k.a. Dreamend, also of Black Moth Super Rainbow) recorded And the Tears Washed Me, Wave After Cowardly Wave, follow-up to 2010’s So I Ate Myself, Bite By Bite (TMT Review), he had to handle that shit. He decided to record as planned, only using the damaged instruments. “You can hear these instruments dying in each note,” Graveface says. “Most of the percussion on the record is done by me bashing my anxiety pill bottles onto the floor or table.” The resulting 12 tracks reflect the album’s narrative — that is, the continuation and conclusion of a story begun on So I Ate Myself, Bite By Bite, the psychological breakdown and ultimate death of a serial killer, all inspired by a journal Graveface bought at an auction in the woods.
And the Tears Washed Me, Wave After Cowardly Wave will be available February 28 on Graveface. The LP will approximate a phenakistoscope a.k.a. a Victorian animation machine.
So, Dragon Ghost, how about heading over to Prefix to check out “The Face on the Tinytype,” or maybe to Absolute Punk for “Your Apparition Stays With Me Still?”
And the Tears Washed Me, Wave After Cowardly Wave tracklist:
01. Another Day
02. Winter Wheat
03. The Face on the Tinytype
04. Off Route 8
05. Mothers
06. Interlude
07. God Went Out of Me
08. Cold & Dead
09. The Sick Call Cabinet
10. Your Apparition Stays with Me Still
11. Oak Tree
12. Final Truth
• Dreamend: http://www.myspace.com/dreamend
• Graveface: http://www.graveface.com