The Quiet In Your Bones Dave Kerman and 5uu's

• 1 Sign Maker 04:36
• 2 Quills And All 12:31
• 3 King In A Coma 03:25
• 4 Sociopath Song 04:05
• 5 Routine 10:52
• 6 Immured Again 03:05
• 7 That Saved A Wretch Like Me 06:21
• 8 War Elephants In The Room 02:59
• 9 Occam’s Razor 11:43
• 10 Mouthfuls Of Gravel 03:28
• Total Runtime 01:03:05

Info for The Quiet In Your Bones

"In November 2015, I decided to get back into writing music, after a 12 year break, to make this demo. It took 8 months of full-time work, between December 2015 and July 2016, to compose & record. Then a 7- month break, during which I was the musical director for a project with Theatre Basel. February thru December of 2017 was again full-time work, rearranging much of it, replacing most of the original midi instruments with real ones, editing out parts that felt “compromising”, and fine-tuning the whole shebang, as best I could.

I initially worked in the kitchen, recording instruments onto a laptop with an old condenser microphone: my Stratocaster thru a little Pignose amp, two nylon and 1 steel string acoustic guitars, Harmonium, bass guitar, a mini keyboard controller, and anything around the house that would make noise. Usually, the microphone couldn’t generate enough signal, so I beefed it up with a tiny iPod amp. After the aforementioned break, most of the work commenced from the bedroom. I fell asleep with these songs, and I woke up to them.

The drums were recorded in a local band’s rehearsal room, except for a couple of instances, which were done in Les Reines Prochaines’ cabin.

The Harmonium was made in Stuttgart in 1846, kept in immaculate shape, and still adhering to the original tuning parameters (Diapason Normal, A435hz, seven decades before Germany was forced to adhere to A440 Standard, as part of the Treaty of Versailles). As a result, it is a bit creepily out-of-tune with the other instruments. I could have electronically tuned it, but where’s the charm in that?

Though many parts of this recording used looping and cut & paste, most of it was played in real-time.

One thing I had in mind was that each song should display a sense of theatrics; The lyrics were written in the first person, to hopefully portray a kind of actor’s soliloquy. So, apart from a couple of instances, the singing is that of a lone voice, without any kind of accompanying harmonies." – Dave Kerman

Dave Kerman, words and music, instruments
Michele Fuchs, vocals, trumpet, euphonium
Liesbeth Lambrecht, violas (track 2)
Bill Gilonis, twangy guitar, bass clarinet (track 4)
Dave Willey, organ solo (track 5)
Keith Macksoud, bass (track 9)
Joel Trieger, intro guitar (track 9)

Dave Kerman
(b. 1959), is best known for his work with the experimental rock groups 5uu's, Present, Aranis, U-Totem, Motor Totemist Guild, Thinking Plague, Nimby, Ahvak and Blast. As a member of these groups he has recorded over forty studio albums in the past two decades. Dave has toured N. America and Europe consistently since 1990, and has appeared at many of the world's most prestigious festivals dedicated to new, experimental and progressive music: Rock In Opposition (Japan), Mimi (France), Victoriaville (Canada), New Music America (USA), Rock In Opposition (France) Patronaat (Holland), Nearfest (USA), Tritonale (France), Gouveia (Portugal), Frankfurt Art Rock Festival (Germany), Wurzburg Freakshow Festival (Germany) Prog Day (USA), Heinekein Music Festival (Israel) etc. Along with other notable percussionists (ie Charles Hayward, Chris Cutler, Daniel Denis, Guigou Chenevier) Dave has helped to change the stereotyped image of the drummer as a "sideman" into a more viable role; one where they are capable of leading a band, composing the music, producing the recordings, arranging tours and organizing the business affairs. For 11 years (2003 - 2014) Dave was the CEO of ReR USA (the North American branch of Recommended Records) and served as President of the Ad Hoc Records label.

Dave was born and raised in So. California, and educated at Cal State Dominguez Hills, where he studied contemporary and electronic music with Professors Marshall Bialosky and David Champion. He also studied audio engineering at Sound-Master Institute with the late Brian Ingoldsby, then President of ABC Records. During the late 70's Dave worked as a freelance session musician by day, and as a performing drummer up and down the Sunset Strip at night. By the mid-80's he had put together his own band, 5uu's, as a vehicle to explore his compositional muse. Over the years, the work of this band afforded him the chance to reside and work in France, Italy, Slovenia, Colorado and Israel. At the time of this writing (Autumn, 2014) he lives in Basel Switzerland, where he plays with the bands Mrs. Understanding, Stepmother and Les Reines Prochaines.

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