Folk

Destroy this with your negativity

The original Demos of Pietro Crespi. All of the music here was made in their dorms in Seattle. Hope you enjoy!

These were originally two demo albums I made back in the summer/fall of 2009 but then I took out the songs that weren't as good and made this. It flows better than I thought this way too.

Concept album based on a college students return back to his hometown. While back home, memories from the past come to haunt him while he still tries to figure out where exactly he comes from. An album based on the never-ending search for home.

Central American Coffee- Based off returning home, exhausted from a years worth of studies. Early one morning he makes a cup of coffee, After finally getting a chance to relax, and reflects on the past year--what he's learned, what's important to him, and past relationships that year.

Blank Slate- Our character discovers that he has an opportunity to remember why he loved his hometown so much. He is a new canvas, a fresh start of confusion. He spends this time in search of how his hometown defines his personality.

Monsters- Things take a turn. After visiting with old friends and past lovers, his past comes to haunt him. Everything that he thought was important to him earlier has changed. A clash between past and present. These new urges and emotions are monsters.

Bedposts (Holy Ghosts)- Our Character returns to bed at night and cannot sleep. Staring at the ceiling, he compares his two lives--his two homes. He doesn't know what to do. Life again has no meaning for him.

Puzzles: Not knowing what to do, our character escapes and leaves home to try and figure out what's most important to him in life. Everything in his life must be reconsidered. He discovers an answer, stability, and optimism in his near future.

...I tried my best to experiment with new sounds on this album. I hope you enjoy it!

This is it, a promise that is not just words, but music too.

This was a happy album that suddenly became a sad album. I don't really know why.

Props to Gabriel Marr for drumming on Cold Nothing, Peter Felsman for percussion and vocals on Cold Nothing, and Meghan Gibbons for the sample at the end of That I Like Better and the live recordings.

This was the first official album released by The Sleepy Trees. Some of the songs are solo acoustic and others are full band.

Tracks 2,3,4,6,8 - acoustic
Tracks 1,5,7,9 - full band

Full album download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zzyyqldjyk1

'I consider this a collection of songs that I've never really finished.' - Rick

'We originally recorded this last year, in the front room with the porch doors open, when it was warm. it was rushed and rick couldn't really sing back then, so we decided to re do it and write a few more songs for it. it's not so warm anymore in summer now so we shut the door and set up the gear again. everything was recorded in one go with the odd over dub here and there. we tracked to digital for the first time because my tascam is on its way out. i mixed down to tape afterwards and that was that i suppose

oh also a magazine called punktastic gave us a really shit review of this the first time we put it out, but they can fuck off now because we know it's good.' - Matt

Recorded on a Summer night in Rick's living room
Rick: Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Matt: Guitars, Accordion, Vocals on track 7
All songs written by Rick
Recorded &
Mixed by Matt
Reece pressed record sometimes too and clapped on track 2

Released as part of White Hot Ember.

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Written in 2004. Performed live at the Red Vic Sessions in SF, CA, on July 16, 2010. Mr. Andrews on drums.

1. Chop Suey
2. Take My Edge And Turn
3. I'm From the Plain
4. Flat On Every Side
5. This Could Be Someone Else's Song
6. The Lift
7. I Don't Feel Permanent Today
8. Feeling Soft
9. I've Been To Canada Once
10. East Of Here

Songs of the slowly fading Summer, roughly hewn and laced with a love for all things living and dying.

Image: Frank Eugene Smith