Shorty

I started collecting these short burst snapshots and fever dreams and lullabies, trying to get in and out in under 3 minutes, writing and recording in hotel rooms and backstages while on tour, and at the home studio H.I.T.G. I put about 30 in a pile and headed out to the country south of Austin, to Aerie Studio, to shake them up with Mark Addison in January of ’07. On the day we began, a winter storm hit and turned into a week long ice event, and as we were locked down and studio bound, we let madness reign.

Pulling grimy tracks off of demos, we rebuilt each piece out of mapmaker loups and rearview mirrors, dreamcatcher hoops and windmill gears, seaglass kaleidoscopes and kodachrome strips. Day turned into night turned into day. The fantastic became frequency and spirits were summoned, demons were exorcised, fabric was woven.

Once the ice melted and we had a rest, we invited a few of our favorite batteurs to hammer up walls and keep the elements in, and found time to mix it all together later in the year. A curious collection indeed, shorty...

— BRUCE

released March 1, 2008

Chip Vayenas - kit (2,3,10,20) percussion (12)
John Chipman - kit (13,17)
Conrad Choucroun - kit (15)
Mark Addison - Arp (2) Wurly (4) pump organ (13) backwards guitar (17), synth (7,16,17) percussion (7,12,20) dedicated inspiration (all)
Raul ‘Ralo’ Vallejo - Trombone
Bruce Hughes - vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards and programming
Keiji Matsumoto, Nariko Ishinaga, Yoko Bowman - Japanese salon
Produced by Bruce Hughes & Arms of Shiva Production
Engineered by Mark Addison, Bruce Hughes and Amy Burchette
Recorded all over the world, final assemblage at the Aerie - Austin, Texas
Mixed by Mark Addison at the Aerie
Mastered by Nancy Matter at Moonlight Mastering
Art direction, Illustration and Package Design by Paul Fucik
Layout and production courtesy of Matt Eskey and Dave Sanger at Freedom Records and Any & All Media

all songs © Lonescar Music (ASCAP)