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The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock

by The Monkey Power Trio

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    Let us not mythologize this band. Let us not put on gilded pedestals their dedication, their crossings of thresholds, their ventures into Cleveland and beyond. They are simple people, who love their families and work their jobs, and only annually heed the call of their dusty instruments and rusty microphones, which summon them on some Orphean descent into an underwordly region where songs must be yanked, Excalibur-like, from an unyielding boulder of thought and expression.

    This band of brothers crosses into some American Hades or another and snatches tunes from the aether, making confusing little melodies that become the actual 1s and 0s or vinyl grooves which you hereby consume. Year after year, they just do their duty, which they have stupidly put upon themselves, and heed the call to play through the hate. Maybe when they are long dead, and the laughter has stopped, will their road of trials lead to their mythic birth as heroes of art and music and hope.

    Here they have woven a balladic tapestry from voyages to the Deep South and the Rusting Midwest. They have fished these harmonious elixirs from under lakes and rivers, through time travel, and from the bombed out urban wastelands of the 1970s. They have tried on black wigs and pushed the black box's button.

    You will change listening to this record. You will complain and grow older. You will demand a better hero, but for your money, for your effort, and for your lack of vision, this is the unholy grail with which you must return home.

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1.
Bottom of the Lake 02:09
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2.
Gordon Muir, Time Traveler 02:32
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3.
Feed Your Hunger 03:14
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4.
Deadhand Button 01:19
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5.
Black Wig 02:30
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Under the River 02:20
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7.
Olympus Mons 03:08
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8.
Hello Cleveland 02:43
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about

Years 21 and 22 of one-day recording sessions are hereby released on an unprecedented 10" vinyl platter and as; digital nonentities. This record is fraught with peril for the listener. She is asked to venture hand in hand with the band into the future, into the darkness, into a sylvan realm where the Ballad of Christian Wolfcock echoes off rotting stumps and ancient stones. Also, we don't practice.

Songs 1-4 were recorded in a basement in Cumming, GA in 2014.
Songs 5-8 were recorded in a basement in Cleveland, OH in 2015.

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released September 1, 2018

All songs by Krizowsky, Maynard, Richardson, Bell, and Miller

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The Monkey Power Trio is both an art project and an oddball DIY band that makes songs by recording for 24 hours once a year. In these 1-day sessions, they create messy songs without the usual constraints of genre or musicianship. The group has convened annually since 1995 and is honor-bound to continue until the last guy alive does a solo album. ... more

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