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the bloody flux - Your Name on a Grain of Rice (1999​-​2004)

by Echo Bridge Records

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Theme for a Man with a Thick Accent 01:34
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Just Like I Shot the Moon Blues 01:44
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3.
Nothing (Minus One) 01:49
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Waiting 02:16
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In the Spotlight 01:08
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Bricks 01:21
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Just Like Me 02:22
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Overexposed 05:44
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14 Variations for One Gone Girl and her Broken Violin 09:27
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Metal Illness 01:14
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about

The Skinny on the Fat:

I've never learned how to play anything properly, and I suppose, in a way, I'm quite proud of that. There's a certain purity and freedom to remaining willfully ignorant to the way you're supposed to do things in art and life. That's not an approach that suits everyone in every way, but it works for me in spades.

Like many artists, I taught myself to play by listening to records. Early on those recordings leaned heavily on the indie, punk, hardcore, and noise genres, but, as I got older, it all expanded to include blues, folk, experimental, modern classical, and world music. It's all in the blender, I guess - everything you ever hear, and it comes out through your fingers as a conduit to your soul. That may seem a little high-minded to some, but I truly believe it to the point where it's almost a credo. I really do.

Anyway, I was eventually gifted an acoustic guitar by my father one Christmas. I can't rightly remember when, but it must have been around the end of my high school experience (1997). At first, I was simply baffled by the damned thing. I only had experience playing electric bass and guitar and these instruments seemed a great deal more versatile in practice and theory than a simple acoustic instrument.

But my acoustic grew on me, eventually becoming my preferred method of music-making for years. There's a near spiritual simplicity to the acoustic guitar, and, with a little ingenuity, you can do almost anything with it - alternate tunings, pickups with effects, capos. The possibilities are about as endless as your creative imagination.

I've recorded a lot of different music with all sorts of different equipment over the past 22 years, but I come back to these "bloody flux" recordings often and I always knew I'd release them officially as a set if I ever started a proper independent label. I could go on and on about my lo-fi influences (Lou Barlow, Smog, Jandek, Bonnie Prince Billy, Guided by Voices, David Berman) forever, but I won't. I'll spare you that.

I will only say that these are the most honest and direct recordings I've ever made, and (because of that) they mean a great deal to me. I hope you appreciate them in all their inept and ragged glory.

Yours,

John Paul Murray (2022)

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released August 28, 2022

Acoustic guitar - John Paul Murray
Harmonica - John Paul Murray
Vocals - John Paul Murray
Mixed by John Paul Murray from 4-track recordings in 2004

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