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Trippy Brigadoon

by Dixie's Death Pool

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    Comes in a full-colour gatefold eco wallet, with lyrics and artwork by Lee Hutzulak

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Fairyland 03:51
THE FAIRYLAND THE FAIRYLAND THE FAIRYLAND COME HOME COME BACK TO ME WE’RE HALVES OF THE WHOLE WE’RE MEANT TO BE PRETEND WE’RE WEARING SLANKETS WATCH THE BETA BAND CIRCA 2000 JAMMING SUICIDE AT THE VU MIDNIGHT FOR THE 5 O’CLOCK SCENE ADULT THEMES IT’S HAPPENING HAPPENING IT’S HAPPENING OHHHH, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I GAVE HER THE SCISSORS SHE SNIPPED THE LAST ROSE FOR HERSELF NO REMORSE NO CHANGE OF COURSE EVEN IF WE’RE ALONE WE DON’T FEEL THAT WAY AT THE FAIRYLAND THE FAIRYLAND
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Orchid Haze 04:27
VILLAGE BIRD OVERSEAS THE VACATION WHERE WE HALTED TO OBSERVE THE FIVE FULL DAYS OF AN ATTACUS ATLAS JAGUAR PAWS THISTLE GARLANDS IN A TRIPPY BRIGADOON LOVER ...NOT TOO SOON DON’T BE A LOVER GO BACK TO YOUR MOON BOOTS BLASTERS AND TINY PARACHUTES IT'S ABSURD I CAN’T FIND IT IN WORDS IT’S THE LIVING INFORMATION WE ARE BUZZING I NEED A PHASE REVERSE I NEED A PHASE REVERSE NOW THAT I KNOW THESE DAYS HAVE BEEN BRUTAL YOUR CURSOR PINK PETROLEUM BLUE HEAVY SURVEILLANCE SAFARI WITH YOU DREAMS MAY WHAT WAS IT? ORCHID HAZE WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR? ORCHID HAZE
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Some Dame 05:30
FEELINGS OF INADEQUACY INSECURITY, REJECTION DON'T TELL ME ABOUT RETAIL THERAPY FROZEN STARS, THE REBEL BASE NO ONE BELIEVES ME IT'S JUST MOUNTAINS OF HUM IT'S LIKE NO ONE BELIEVES IN LOVE YOU CAN HOLD NO ONE BELIEVES IN A STACK OF ATOMS SOME DAME'S ALWAYS DOING MY HEAD IN FLIP A COIN MOVE A LITTLE CLOSER YOU MUST BE HALFWAY ‘ROUND THE WORLD WOULD YOU PASS MY READERS PLEASE AM I LOSING MY EYEBALLS TO YOUR TRICKS? DOLLAR STORE CHOCOLATE BARS 2ND HAND FIRECRACKER CARS THAT PARK THEMSELVES JACOB'S WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL IN THE ENCHANTED VALLEY OF QU'APPELLE DID SOMETHING BAD JUST GO DOWN? “I DON'T KNOW WHAT” SHE WHISPERS “MY TRUE BLUE, MY TRUE BLUE” BIRDS SCATTER LIKE LEAVES FALL UP INTO TREES SOME DAME'S ALWAYS DOING MY HEAD IN SOME DAME'S ALWAYS DOING MY HEAD IN
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Space Kitty 02:29
WAKING UP TO YOU I’M WAKING UP TO YOU I’M WAKING UP TO YOU, SPACE KITTY RAINBOW, PINK FUN FUR, SPACE KITTY FOUR COLOUR BIC PEN, SEA-BLUE BOTTOM WHITE CAPS, GREEN, SPACE KITTY
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Devastation 06:59
THIS AIN’T THE FIRST TIME I LET THINGS FALL APART THIS AIN’T THE FIRST TIME FELT LIKE I COULDN’T BREATHE BUT I AIN’T CRYING IT’S CALLED DEVASTATION DON’T YOU SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING TO ME? DISTANT SIRENS, COMING CLOSER WHOLE WORLD’S ON FIRE, NO TURNING BACK EVERYTHING SCORCHED AND BLACK TASTE OF ASH, CINDERS STING IS THIS OUR BITTER END?
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MILES FROM HERE I HAVE TO BE MILES FROM HERE CAN I HOLD YOU IN MY MIND? MERCY, SHOW ME MINOR SHADE OK LOVER, ON A CUTTING ROOM FLOOR WE EXIST FOR NOTHING AND NO ONE
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Slow Burn 07:39
DON’T SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS? DID YOU COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE PERMANENT MOMENT? WHERE LIFE LOOKS LIKE DEATH WITH UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS ALL 88 KEYS THAT FEEL SO NICE SUN ON YOUR BACK WHERE DID SUMMER GO? EVERYTHING IS GOOD RIGHT NOW SEPTEMBER IN THE COLONIES WEBCAMS AND ZOOM FOR THE WRITERS, THE ACTORS AND MAKE-UP TOO AND IT’S GOOD, SOMETHING NEW I NEED TO WORK FOR LOOSE CHANGE “DO YOU TRUST ME?” SHE SMILES LOOKING LIKE A WILD ANIMAL WITH A CHEETAH PRINT MASK SHE COVERS HER FACE HAIR SPUN UP LOW BLACK SWEATER OVER BLACK LACE “CAN’T WAIT TO GET OUTTA HERE ARE YOU COMING? ARE YOU COMING?” TRANSMUTATION TAKES RATHER MORE THAN A MOON OF ARRESTING BEAUTY I HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU DANCE FOR ME C’MON, I HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU DANCE FOR ME C’MON, LET THE LAST THING I SAY BE A SLOW, A SLOW BURN SLOWEST ONE BY FAR COOL BLUE EMBERS FROM A SHOOTING STAR

about

Trippy Brigadoon, the 11th Dixie’s Death Pool album, born in the throes of the pandemic. It affected so many aspects of life, including (maybe especially), our most intimate relations. Isolation, boredom, anxiety, the ominous quiet. Never experienced anything like that before. I was furloughed, getting by on government money, and nursing a strange cocktail of existential dread, spiked with the joy of recording every day. Oh yeah, and uh, my marriage-well nevermind.
Alright, chin up. Let’s imagine fairyland and weave a story from these unraveling threads. Brigadoon, defined by the Merriam-Webster, is an idyllic place unaffected by time, and remote from reality.
June 2020, I synced synthesizers, sequencers, drum machines, fx pedals and pressed record. Bleep bloop. For a month or so I messed around, capturing everything. Next: overdubbing keyboards, synths, strings - pretty much anything else lying around. Lyrics and vocals were starting to come as well. Taking advantage of the lockdown hush, I recorded outdoors: percussion at Science World, trombone and snare drum at the Emily Carr campus. And in my time of need, oh lord! in my time of need - I found and filmed The Meadow, aka Stanley Park. F* yeah! It’s on my YT-check it. Most of the album came together like this. Come summer, after living alone in my head for such a long time, I needed professional help. Quinsin Nachoff’s classy NY sax has me looking for a new zoot suit. And behold cellist Peggy Lee’s cool blue flame in the soul dark of night. Closer to home I assembled a portable rig and captured John Korsrud’s fiery trumpet on a sunny August afternoon in the parking lot of the Vancouver Academy of Music. Took the ferry to a drizzly Galiano Island and spent the day tracking Dan Gaucher’s killer drums (!!!). Fast forward a year, and in October ‘21, after a few months living on my own, I recorded Some Dame in similar fashion: synths, drum machines, overbubbing vocals, guitar etc. There are 4 exceptions to this approach: Yr Kiss Is Magic - reworking of a 2012 session recorded at the Hive, featuring the sublime stylings and narcotic languor of Todd Hutzulak (e.guitar / clarinet). Edgar Bridwell (violin), Marina Hasselberg (cello) and Matt Skillings (e.bass / vibraphone) give elegant shape to the ship in the mist, while Russell Sholberg (double bass) changes the course. The horizon is punctuated by epic snare cracks (Stephen Lyons) and the clouds part. Enter Kim Stewart with heaven sent voice all the way from 2014, aka Twilight, Sound Mountain. I am deeply grateful for the contributions of all these talented musicians! Originally a 20 min set by David Leith, Butterfly On A Swaying Grass, has a beguiling mix of voices: the enigmatic Lief Hall, a Vocaloid robot programmed by Leith, plus my own pride and joy, Cosmo and Veda. Space Kitty was improvised Halloween 2020, including vocals and pyrotechnics caught by an out-the-window mic. Nothing and No One, aka Minor Shade, debuted August 2, 2019, on my YT as a guitar instrumental.
One last note: on several occasions an instrument recorded for one piece ended up in another altogether - honestly, what is this thing called music? As in life asking “What If?” is essential to finding the mystery. Dive deep or simply drift dear listener, but be warned! The adventure has many intoxicating passages, and time may impair better judgment. Lee Hutzulak, September, 2023

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released September 7, 2023

WRITTEN, PERFORMED, PRODUCED, MIXED, MASTERED
+ ART & DESIGN BY LEE HUTZULAK
with amazing guest musicians
EDGAR BRIDWELL - VIOLIN {1,2,3,4,5,7,8}
DAN GAUCHER - DRUM KIT {3,4,7,9}
LIEF HALL - WORDS, VOICE, EFFECTS PEDALS {2}
MARINA HASSELBERG - CELLO {1}
TODD HUTZULAK - CLARINET, GUITAR {1}
JOHN KORSRUD - TRUMPET {2,3,7,8,9}
PEGGY LEE - CELLO {3,7,8}
DAVID LEITH - SYNTHESIZER {1,2} VOCALOID {2}
STEPHEN LYONS - DRUM KIT {1}
QUINSIN NACHOFF - CLARINET {1,2,3} SAXOPHONE {4,5,6}
RUSSELL SHOLBERG - A. BASS {1,5}
MATT SKILLINGS - VIBRAPHONE, E. BASS {1}
KIM STEWART VOICE - {1,3,5,8,9}

RECORDED SUMMER 2020 / MIXED SUMMER 2023

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Dixie's Death Pool Vancouver, British Columbia

Dream country, experimental pop songs, ambient soundscapes, electro-acoustic, improvised noise, conceptual electronic: Dixie's Death Pool is Lee Hutzulak's studio recording project.

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