New Jason DuMars solo album release -- Songs From Oil City
I am really happy to announce that I have completed this year's recording project and hope you'll take a listen to some of the music. I know some of you have dial-up Internet connections and won't be able to download the files, so let me know if you want me to send you an audio CD.
Here's the link to it: http://www.dumarsengraving.com/sfoc
This album was mostly recorded during the first half of the year in our tiny little apartment, and was particularly challenging since I played all of the parts (over 15 different instruments) myself and did the recording part too. The project started out as a series of very loose, rhythmically-ambiguous layered improvisations, but transformed into something more thematically coherent as I progressed. The order of the songs is basically chronological and shows a sort of de-evolution into simplicity -- really culminating in the last 6 minutes of the last song. I realized at the end of doing this that it was a very personal reflection on my own struggles with living in the waning years of the Age of Oil. By the way, the real Oil City was located where the Hoh River meets the mighty Pacific Ocean on the Olympic Peninsula, and indeed there is nothing left of it other than memories and driftwood.
Please share your thoughts with me about the music, life, or anything else. This is an important time to come together, and this is my way of sharing my deepest self with you.
With love and peace,
Jason
3 Comments:
Hi Jason,
Loved what I heard....it was something I could relate to in a very personal way.
When I was growing up, my father took me to a wooded area on top of a mountain that used to be a coal mining camp that he grew up in.
He would point here and there, tell me who lived where,the place of their old clapboard house, where the old persimmon tree was, the community pump, the ropeway house that took miners down the mountain to the mine, etc....
Hearing it come alive in my fathers descriptions and gesticulations yet only being able to imagine what it must have really looked like has always been a haunting experience for me....it reminds me so much of what you have done with songs From Oil City....
Nice, my friend!
By the way, it's me, Randy.
jason, great music. i listened to a few of the tracks and bookmarked the page for later listening. well done sir.
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