Against A Stone

by Dave Tilton

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1.
Trump Playing Golf 01:30
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2.
Miles From Home 02:54
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3.
The Word Of Go 00:53
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4.
Metal Dreams 00:45
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5.
Corner 03:16
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6.
Funnel 01:08
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7.
Couch Medley 06:02
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Eggiweg and Jammiwam 02:43
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October 2 (For DW) 01:20
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Against A Stone 03:21
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about

In the beginning was the sound. No, that's not quite right. In the beginning was the rhythm. Well, maybe that's not it, either. In the beginning was the word - not "the Word" but the first word Dave Tilton wrote for what became a series of poems that he later stashed for - wait, maybe in the beginning was the letter? The blank sheet of paper? The pen? Word software? The laptop? It's difficult to say.

Just know that Dave has recorded a collection of poems, his first one after forty years of solo singer-songwriter albums and as a member of the SoCal band the Seventh Triangle. Poems about topics like a former US President playing golf in 2021, an iconic octogenarian rock star listening to Miles Davis albums on vinyl in his house, a narrator experiencing the onset of dementia and remembering a long-ago Creedence concert while trying to figure out what is in the gutter near his house, even one using the nadsat language created by Anthony Burgess for his novel A Clockwork Orange.

And then there's the album's centerpiece: a series of poems created by cutting up photocopies of the text from Chapters 3-6 of The Gospel According to Luke into two-inch squares, picking eight squares at random from a hat, then choosing lines from the squares to reassemble the text into something new.

Dave also wrote and played the music used to back these poems. Well, not really "backed" or "supported" - his voice was used like another instrument in the band, similar to what not-really-Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth (Rexroth's description) did on Fantasy Records in the 1950s. This collection is no Fifties Hipster Retro Thingy, though. It's in-the-moment stuff with some snappy rhythms, some walking basslines, and - well, here is where you should stop reading and begin listening. Maybe even dancing.

credits

released January 20, 2023

Jason (The Immortal) Peri mixed, mastered, and midwifed this album. He also added the graphics to the cover photo.

Dave Tilton played all instruments, provided all voices and vocals, engineered, took the cover photograph and added some digital manipulation to it.

Instruments used on Against A Stone: electric guitar, basses, Moog synthesizer, trumpets, drum machine (programmed and played live), jaws harp, siren, Tibetan singing bowl, waterphone, tamboura app, space theremin app, toy piano app, various public domain sound effects, sleigh bells.

The usual "all rights reserved, blahblahblah" stuff applies here.

No stones (or Stones) were harmed during the making of this album.

For additional information contact www.newhatrecords.com. Thanks.

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Dave Tilton Vallejo, California

Dave Tilton was born in California. He continues to live in the Golden State, along with his beautiful wife, dog, and assortment of musical instruments. He performs frequently with various bands. He is a co-founder of the band The Seventh Triangle, recording both with them and on solo projects for New Hat Records from 1984 until 2023. (Photo by Dariece Warren) ... more

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