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Chiparus is deceptively simple, unassuming yet interesting, lo-fi, homemade, and honest songwriting for the people. The Wax Wings Project is Chiparus' debut record. The story follows from the porch of a Santa Cruz home, the traffic and wind Chimes mixing with thoughts and memories in the air, in my head... Logging onto my computer, I lament over an email romance-gone-south in Ashley's Song... deciding to leave the house for a bit, I end up downtown and in a relationship with a troubled waitress, Nasturtium, the bright orange flowers found growing through the sidewalks in the dilapidated part of town... Jessicca is a more in-depth tale of a woman who's sunk to the point of sleeping with her doctor to feed her drug addiction... returning to the head-space of track 1, Evil is the mounting pressure of domesticity; the claustrophobia of quiet nights not saying what must be said... My Berenice delves into my darkest fantasies as I obsess over a beautiful stranger and imagine having my way with her--perhaps realizing the sickness of my desire... Water is a sublime interlude washing me of the demons exposed in Berenice, and preparing for... The Time Apart is a return to Chimes, similar chords/melodies, though instead of endlessly repeating itself (like a wind-chime does), the cycle begins to change, the personal realization has occured, and I begin expressing my private wishes, my songs, my expression will carry me out of the labrynth... (the remaining 7 tracks are bonus material including 4 tracks from my Chiparus "Wrecked" EP, a few live recordings including a cut of "Cold July" with THE BILLS backing me up, and more... Check out the artist's website: http://www.myspace.com/chiparus Track List: 1. Chimes 2. Ashley's Song 3. Nasturtium 4. Jessicca 5. evil 6. My Berenice 7. water 8. the Time Apart 9. Whatever Comes Out 10. Cold July 11. Your Face in the Dark 12. Ode to a Cigarette 13. Cold July 2 14. Darlin' Corey 15. A Silence Other Genres:
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