Songs For Dog Fitness

by Chris Funk

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quailman Moody, experimental and great atmospheric music. Probably nothing Chris Funk and his Decemberist pals touch will turn to anything but gold, but very excited to see Chris embracing his own solo/instrumental direction. Has been compared to a "blade runner" atmospheric sound; whatever it is is dark and lovely woods indeed. "Two More Weeks" "Let Them Drink Bleach" and the Vermona 3 stand out for me. Favorite track: Let Them Drink Bleach.

Secretdrummer Purchased the vinyl because 1) dedicated to supporting local Portland musicians 2) dig colored platters 3) album title is intriguing 4) easily read a novel while enjoying the ambiance 5) Patterson Hood proclaimed it better than the naked bike ride

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited edition purple vinyl with a 3/4" wide, 53" long leash, perfect for walkies!

Please note the track listing on the vinyl is slightly different to help maximize fidelity, but all songs come with the digital download.

Track listing:

A1 VERMONA ONE . . . 6:35
A2 EMPTY CORNERS . . . 2:44
A3 TWO MORE WEEKS . . . 7:21
A4 SUNDAY MORNING . . . 4:24

B1 CLOUDS OF ARBAHR . . . 4:32
B2 VERMONA TWO . . . 4:30
B3 LET THEM DRINK BLEACH . . . 6:37
B4 VERMONA THREE . . . 3:39
B5 THE HAUNTED MANSION . . . 3:58

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
"Songs For Dog Fitness" limited edition purple vinyl + "The Painted Porch" limited edition green vinyl + 3/4" wide, 53" long leash. Perfect for MAXIMUM walkies!

Please note the track listing on the vinyl is slightly different to help maximize fidelity, but all songs come with the digital download.

Track listing:

A1 VERMONA ONE . . . 6:35
A2 EMPTY CORNERS . . . 2:44
A3 TWO MORE WEEKS . . . 7:21
A4 SUNDAY MORNING . . . 4:24

B1 CLOUDS OF ARBAHR . . . 4:32
B2 VERMONA TWO . . . 4:30
B3 LET THEM DRINK BLEACH . . . 6:37
B4 VERMONA THREE . . . 3:39
B5 THE HAUNTED MANSION . . . 3:58

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1.	Vermona One 06:35	buy track
2.	Empty Corners 02:44	buy track
3.	Two More Weeks 07:21	buy track
4.	Sunday Morning Turning On 04:24	buy track
5.	Clouds Of Arbahr 04:32	buy track
6.	Vermona Two 04:30	buy track
7.	Face Mask 05:08	buy track
8.	Let Them Drink Bleach 06:39	buy track
9.	Vermona Three 03:39	buy track
10.	The Haunted Mansion 04:02	buy track
11.	Burials 04:32	buy track

about

My friend, a producer named John Congleton, encouraged me to purchase my first modular “system”. He had brought a Buchla Work Easel in-toe to a Decemberists recording session. His system was daunting and expensive. But the way John put it was: “It’s worth buying this stuff as long as it keeps me inspired to keep doing this,” or something to that effect. So I did.

It’s no secret that guitar players are often prone to purchasing too many guitars, and too many guitar pedals to mold and shape their sounds. I had found myself drawn to pedals that pushed the sounds of the guitar so far away from the conventional tones of the 6-stringer that using control voltages sourced from something that looks like a guitar pedal—that is, the module—struck me as not much of a stretch.

As I tend to do with most of my flights of fancy, I went in headlong and deep. The modules started piling up over the next few years, and again and again, I found myself in front of a modular system, not really knowing what I was doing. I would turn them on, make a simple noise. Life would happen and I’d return to the tasks of what it takes for an indie rock guitar player to make a living in Oregon, which didn’t and still doesn’t involve much time to simply “make sounds.”

Enter a virus, loads of rain and the dark skies as my state is known for, plus total lockdown of my city. I seized the moment, blew the dust off of the robots and took over the dining room. I told myself I was going to create “a patch” (a song) every day with modular, record it and move on. And, for more or less two months, I did.

This music was all recorded live: one takes while adjusting the units, until felt I “had something,” not over thinking it. I’d then dump it into the grid and take my dog for a walk, reviewing what I’d made on my headphones in the empty streets, businesses boarded up for what we thought was to be a month or so. But that cycle just kept continuing. Unfortunately, as I type this, it still is.

Realizing that this process and virus might go on and on, I marked the tracks that seemed to live together [in time? in mood?], often not remembering creating some of the music at all. Were the robots playing me? I bundled them up to be mastered, and now they are for you and your pets to enjoy on a walk, or a treadmill, or laying around your house next to your dog. As you read this, hopefully the virus has passed, and a few of these songs can underscore you flight to somewhere far away.

May your dog forever underscore your life.

Chris Funk
June 2020

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released November 6, 2020

All songs performed by Chris Funk live on modular and semi modular synths during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020.
Recorded and mixed by Chris Funk
Mastered by Jon Neufeld at Treehouse Mastering
Cover Art By OSMOSE and Rob Jones

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