Feedback-Laden Fantasies

“Feedback-Laden Fantasies is about coming out of a dark depression, and entering into a surreal, dream-like state, full of secrecy and paranoia; a dystopic nightmare seemingly foreshadowing an apocalyptic climax.

It is also the heat, sweating out a fever, not a physical ailment, but a spiritual disease; trying to exorcise inner demons.

The album never comes to a fiery ending, nor does it end in victory.  The album is just a sort of realization, not a complete healing process, but a recognition that the soul is in a dire situation.  It is admitting things are bad, but embracing health, avoiding a bleak future, but still far from the end of the path.

The progress grows, from the first track’s hazy experimentation, discovery, and bliss ignorance, to the second’s burning emotion, as the sun sets and shadows dance while demons are cast out, finally ending in the third track’s rediscovery of creativity, and hope, gaining control over your life, and once again finding beauty.”

–Catch The Reference? on “Feedback-Laden Fantasies,” April of 2009.

“Open Your Mind”

FEEDBACK-LADEN FANTASIES

1. “Take 1”
-recorded on May 10th, 2008 (a day after seeing “Tracey Fragments, and later wrecking the home computer by infecting it with viruses.)
Catch The Reference? on harmonica, vocals, recorder, rubberband, and Maxi-Mouse (feedback manipulation).

2. “An Early Evening Exorcism”
-recorded on May 17th, 2008 (after taking a long walk to get God Of War for the PSP with little sister and the stepbrothers.)
Catch The Reference? on Maxi-Mouse (feedback manipulation).

3. “Two Track Mind” (working title of “Healing”)
-recorded on May 25th, 2008 (the only multi-track recording, and the only premeditated one too)
Catch The Reference? on Maxi-Mouse (feedback manipulation).
-includes “A Broken Social Scene” (recorded on June 7th, 2008, after taking the SATs.)
Catch The Reference? on Barnum & Bailey Tin, Gameboy advanced SP, Crayola Eraseable Pencils, and Maxi-Mouse (feedback manipulation).  Two track, track on on micro-cassette, dubbed onto tape.

recorded in Catch The Reference?’s room, mixed on William’s computer.

all track composed and produced by Catch The Reference?
Hare Krishna

additional percussion by Gerald The Mouse.  (he’s getting rather old , but he’s a good mouse.)

Special thanks for inspiration and purpose to Gerald The Mouse, Eugen Weber, Ellen Page, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Pope, the cast of iCarly, and the Trojan Army.

“The sounds of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeteers shall not be heard in you anymore.”
-Revelations 18:22