Dive

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Album Info

Release Date: 2020-05-29

Label: NorthSphere Records

Hype sticker reads: 'Remastered - 2020 Definitive Archive Edition Reissue'

[from the inlay]
‘Dive’ was recorded entirely at my apartment on 815 Clinton Street in Waukesha, WI. in 2004, but which is now Taylor’s People’s Park bar and restaurant. I went there shortly after it opened and ate lunch in the room that used to be my bedroom.

I released ‘Dive’ hot on the heels of an anthology collection entitled ‘The Nidus’, which also contained some songs that would later that year appear on ‘Dive’. The collection sold very well for me, and I invested in a Fostex digital 8-track studio around this time for the completion of the album.

The cover version of “Cornfield” I recorded with Tara appears on this version of the release, as I’d already begun recording some of the arrangements for it during this time, for inclusion on a His Name Is Alive tribute album that never came out. My magnum opus: “The End of the Machine” appears in a newly minted version here as well.

True story about that: ‘The End of the Machine’ was the name my father gave to a sculpture he made in middle school depicting, quite literally, the end of a machine. The sculpture was a very minimalist interpretation, being simply a tangled ball of spring nailed to a marble slab. The nameplate on the front of it bore the title. Seeing this as a young boy myself, I was immediately intrigued by its context, and as I grew older this deepened. Eventually, after a night on the rooftop of my apartment building on Clinton Street, drinking with friends and yes, literally so drunk we were carelessly “pouring expensive wine into the street” below, I finally stumbled inside, grabbed a notebook and penned the lyrics for what would become the song interpretation of my father’s sculpture. A few years later, an artist friend of mine found herself taken by the lyrics to the song, and requested my permission to use them in the background of a watercolor on canvass that she also wanted to grace with the same title. I was truly honored, and of course granted her full creative liberty to interpret her piece in whatever way she saw fit. So as of this writing, The End of the Machine has incarnated itself as a sculpture, a song and a painting…. What’s next - a movie title.. maybe a novel?
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Tracks 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are original recordings remastered
Tracks 2, 5 and 11 are 2009 re-recordings
Tracks 4, 12 and 13 are 2007 recordings, previously unreleased
Track 8 is a cover of "Cornfield" by His Name Is Alive (c) 1993, Perforate My Heart, BMI.