Mono Sources
by Mono Sources
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New In The Old Form
05:52
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Heavy the lid of my brain colored box
where the fountain of letters spell out my thoughts
wondering how I am already off
before I've all the things I'll need when I'm gone
Often away we are restored
Reborn, new in the old form
Drawing my lines with a heart full of chalk
if I'm pressing too hard I might break it off
Moon colored hands and a lantern of loss
I am lighting my way from the harbor dock
Often away we are restored
Reborn, new in the old form
Far as a satellite
Near as a pulse
Bare as an appetite
Pulling in close
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(words by Lauren Hillman)
I tried in the summer
I tried in the afternoon
I tried every single hour
but there's nothing I could do
I can't seem to shake it
the thought of you
maybe in another city
or underwater deep
maybe if I just keep swimming
I can put this song asleep
cause I can't escape it
the thought of you
I'll try not to wonder
I'll try every afternoon
I'll try every single hour
but there's nothing I can do
cause I can't escape it
the thought of you
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3. |
Small Talk - feat SAS
04:33
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Leave it up to me
I’m bold enough to be afraid
when have I been wrong before
all the times that I’ve pushed myself through discomfort
everything that you never knew
about me I’m too tired to prove
but you can watch and learn just what I think
wait for me I’m daydreaming
would you look at how the time flies
could you ever look me right between the eyes
do I do I do I just wanna be in control
do I do I do I just wanna be entertained
peering through a stained glass pane
nothing’s plain to see but me waiting in line
for you to just give me the time
I’ll wait it out keep it casual
But I don’t know what I’ve been waiting for
you’re always out and I’m out of town
I wonder who you’ve been messing around with now
I’ll turn a blind eye, tongue in cheek
when you put down the wrong puzzle piece and declare it’s over
it won’t hurt me
I can’t be honest with myself
I can’t be honest with myself
I can’t ben honest with myself
It’s perfect timing ‘cause I’m leaving
but if you would just leave it up to me
do I do I do I wanna lose control
Leave it up to me
I’ve been bold and I’m afraid to say that
I can’t be honest with myself
I can’t be honest with myself
I can’t be honest with myself
I’ll wait it out keep it casual
I can’t be honest with myself
There’s nothing plain to see
I’m daydreaming
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4. |
The Stillness
04:57
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this deep in the winter summer don't come
this deep in the winter summer don't come
middle of nowhere
urgency gone
this far in the forest
quiet as calm
in the splintered light silence is gold
as the glimpse goes by
'member where you come from
'member what you've come for
this deep in the winter summer don't come
this deep in the winter summer don't come
this close to a mystery
verge of
alive and listening
antennae on
this far in the forest
quiet as calm
in this long short life take your own time
burdens of the day
the blessing of it all
the moments of truth
that illuminate the ways
we recover and fall
we recover and fall
when the sun gets lost
do you see inside
there's a pilot light
when the sun gets lost
and the stillness bright
the stillness
gonna let my guard down
when I get my heart up
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5. |
Uneven Ground
04:43
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I used to go out of my way around you
there was a brave about you
then you were gone
I used to feel all out of place around you
there was a maze about you
then I was lost
between moving walls
there were times I needed you to show
straight as an arrow
bent as a bow
love is like four hands on a barrow
straight as the one wheel
rolling us forth
on uneven ground
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(words by Derrick C. Brown)
hello, it doesn't matter
you two are beautiful together
and it doesn't matter
she's your only truth
star-splitter of your chest
and it doesn't matter
he's your dream museum
your favorite species
blood beating apprentice
and it doesn't matter
she is your perfect
and you think you'll die if she fades
and it doesn't matter
and she loved you like a hidden god
and it doesn't matter
and you want no one else
and you see it in her posture that she might
and it doesn't matter
and there's someone better always
and it doesn't matter
and when a bird crashes into your window
you wonder if the bird is lost
or if your window got in the way
but it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter
and your hurt and hate for me
is growing in your liver
and it's too large to cut out
or you'll bleed to death
and it doesn't matter
and you have a violence inside
that lives in your sperm
and I put it there
and it doesn't matter
and you wish you were designed better
but you weren't and it doesn't matter
and you want her to love you again
to love you harder than grammar
and it doesn't matter
and you feel alone forever on a treadmill
that slowly murders you
and you don't want to unplug it
and it doesn't matter
and she will wish it wasn't over so soon
but it is and it doesn't matter
and you'll wonder why I made your season so short
and you will hunger to know
that it doesn't matter
and you will forget how unnecessary you are
love is not the moon and the sun swapping space
it is one eating the weaker nightly
and vomiting light
so just drink your wine and cry
and become a flood
become the flood
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Dream Museum
03:16
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8. |
Contrails
05:08
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9. |
Dinosaur Men
04:05
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'nother year come to fly by
'nother year another one gone by
march of the sun up
you and I and a blink of time
needle tip and a forty five
spinning around around around
everyone listen up
get right what's right
we always feel we've been here before
we always feel we've been here before
we always feel like we're reaching our hands
but our hearts are still as as our feet on the floor
it feels like time to remember the past
to rescue the truth from the dinosaur men's cold bones
discovered underground in a back yard
buried in an ordinary town
echo of the backwards and bygone
ignorance and stunted kids
running round bigot skin amok
high on green light
blowing through the blood colored stop signs
we always fall and we count on the net
we always fall and we count on the net
we always fall on our face or our backs
as we brace ourselves for the sound of the wreck
it feels like time to remember the past
to rescue the truth from the dinosaur men's cold bones
you know how you need to come
come through now
rescue the words that blind us
you know how you need to come
come through now
rescue the words that bind us
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Home Invasion - feat SAS
03:47
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(words by Sas Liska)
I had a bad dream that no one could believe
and that day they were praying for me catching my dreams
locking me in but can we be friends
protect me or destroy me
it's a familiar scene always inviting it in
with intention or a curiosity
I don't need a tool now
imagination runs wild
was it a premonition or setting me up
you tell me that's not enough
it's not enough, not enough, it's not enough, it's not enough
I was taught not to believe
in things I could not see that linger behind
I felt something but I can't say
I never told him to go that way
to protect me or destroy me
I was inviting it in to where it is safe
not thinking is it safe for me
maybe you could have seen it fit
tell me who you wont permit
tell me I'm intuitive
and now I've driven you away
all because I was afraid
of empty spaces and idle hands
breaking through shattered glass
can we make a deal to live together
show me how to live forever
you don't have a home now
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(words by Nick Logie & Mono Sources)
Fill in the places I'm not
show me
lead me from the nothing point on
slowly
bear with my burdens
I have demanded
I'm not quite finished yet
this is gonna take until the evening
took away you thought was right
this is gonna bleed into the dust
as it does, after us
what's it gonna take until you feel the love
can you see the chaos that you've brought
what's it gonna take until you see the love
after us
bear with my burdens
I have demanded
I'm not quite finished yet
do what you wish
follow your bliss
come into this
into the dust
this is gonna take until the evening
this is gonna bleed into the dust
what's it gonna take until you feel the love
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Orbiting
04:13
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there like phantom limb I lost again
we were a ransom
money never came for the demand
but we still are
orbiting around the sun
orbiting around the might of
orbiting around the sun
orbiting
all the wonder gathers at the why
surrounded, both sides
lean down but listen for behind
drink from your reflection next to mine
while we still are
orbiting around the sun
orbiting around the might of
orbiting around the sun
orbiting
this impermanence feels like a boat with oars
facing backwards knowing from the wake
that I'm moving forth
drawn by the glade of a moon that knows
all the shapes of the distant shores
distant shores
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(words by Derrick C. Brown)
gimme chaos
gimme pure chaos
I am vessel lost
eater of dead starlight
hungry as the occult
she leans in when she is drunk
and the word kiss sounds like chaos
stop ruining love by wanting it so bad
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14. |
MS 0412
03:22
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about
Mono Sources is the creation of multi-instrumentalists Brett Bixby and Jesse Nason. The two met during recording of Brett’s album “City Lights”, after which Jesse joined Brett’s band in support of the album. In the years after, both of them exchanged touring and recording duties for Los Angeles songwriter AM and started to share a studio in Long Beach. This studio served two important purposes - a place to house their growing synth and effect collection and a place to start working on music together.
With no preconceived idea of what music they wanted to create, Brett and Jesse decided that the only rule that made sense was “if a new piece of equipment comes into the studio, it has to be used on today’s work”. The general recipe is they would each choose two synths and the pedals of the day, start playing independently to a chosen groove, until eventually one of the two would look up and say “that sounds good, let’s vibe on that!”
After some steady time in the studio, eventually some complementary ideas started to orbit each other and the D.I.Y. production process evolved. As songs emerged, so did the idea to expand the circle and invite friends to participate in the recording: vocalists SAS, Lauren Hillman (Kotomi), and Nick Logie (Hott MT), poet Derrick Brown, drummers Denny Weston Jr, Dan Bailey, Paul Doyle, guitarist Justin Burrow, bassist Tyler Chester and multi-instrumentalist Shawn Lee.
The finished album combines all that the two creators are inspired by:
moody synths, mid-tempo beats, primary melodies, and self-spun lyrics. About the album, they say it is somewhat of an experimentation - a mixtape, a collage of different sounds and voices.
"Eno-esque textures blended with a soft rock ethos give way to an
atmospheric 'After The Gold Rush' or more analogue Bon Iver."
- AM, singer-songwriter
With no preconceived idea of what music they wanted to create, Brett and Jesse decided that the only rule that made sense was “if a new piece of equipment comes into the studio, it has to be used on today’s work”. The general recipe is they would each choose two synths and the pedals of the day, start playing independently to a chosen groove, until eventually one of the two would look up and say “that sounds good, let’s vibe on that!”
After some steady time in the studio, eventually some complementary ideas started to orbit each other and the D.I.Y. production process evolved. As songs emerged, so did the idea to expand the circle and invite friends to participate in the recording: vocalists SAS, Lauren Hillman (Kotomi), and Nick Logie (Hott MT), poet Derrick Brown, drummers Denny Weston Jr, Dan Bailey, Paul Doyle, guitarist Justin Burrow, bassist Tyler Chester and multi-instrumentalist Shawn Lee.
The finished album combines all that the two creators are inspired by:
moody synths, mid-tempo beats, primary melodies, and self-spun lyrics. About the album, they say it is somewhat of an experimentation - a mixtape, a collage of different sounds and voices.
"Eno-esque textures blended with a soft rock ethos give way to an
atmospheric 'After The Gold Rush' or more analogue Bon Iver."
- AM, singer-songwriter
credits
released September 20, 2019
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Brett Bixby and Jesse Nason
Mastered by Joe Bozzi at Bernie Grundman Mastering
All tracks written by Brett Bixby and Jesse Nason except:
Bixby, Nason, Lauren HIllman - 2
Bixby, Nason, Sas Liska - 3, 10
Bixby, Nason, Derrick C. Brown - 6, 13
Bixby, Nason, Nick Logie - 11
All instruments by Brett Bixby and Jesse Nason with:
Dan Bailey - drums 10
Derrick C Brown - poet 6, 13
Justin Burrow - guitars 1, 3, 10
Tyler Chester - bass 12
Paul Doyle - drums 4
Lauren Hillman - vocals 2
Shawn Lee - bass 11
Sas Liska - vocals 3, 10
Nick Logie - vocals 11
Josh One - MPC 6
Denny Weston Jr. - drums 2, 3, 7, 9, 11
Cover art by Keith Slettedahl
Design by Deyo Glines
Photo by Joe Lyman
Collage by Mono Sources
Special thanks to Erik Hanson and Universal Audio
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Brett Bixby and Jesse Nason
Mastered by Joe Bozzi at Bernie Grundman Mastering
All tracks written by Brett Bixby and Jesse Nason except:
Bixby, Nason, Lauren HIllman - 2
Bixby, Nason, Sas Liska - 3, 10
Bixby, Nason, Derrick C. Brown - 6, 13
Bixby, Nason, Nick Logie - 11
All instruments by Brett Bixby and Jesse Nason with:
Dan Bailey - drums 10
Derrick C Brown - poet 6, 13
Justin Burrow - guitars 1, 3, 10
Tyler Chester - bass 12
Paul Doyle - drums 4
Lauren Hillman - vocals 2
Shawn Lee - bass 11
Sas Liska - vocals 3, 10
Nick Logie - vocals 11
Josh One - MPC 6
Denny Weston Jr. - drums 2, 3, 7, 9, 11
Cover art by Keith Slettedahl
Design by Deyo Glines
Photo by Joe Lyman
Collage by Mono Sources
Special thanks to Erik Hanson and Universal Audio
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