I am happy to tell you that Burden Music is preparing to release new music for the first time in two years. The forthcoming EP, dedwax, From Scratch will be available by the end of 2014. In anticipation of the new release, every recording in the Burden catalog from 2002-2012 has been re-released and is available to stream and download for free on the burdenmusic.bandcamp page.
I'll be picking songs to post along with 5 things you might not know about the song, who recorded it or what was going on when it was recorded.
The first song being re-released is by the band Just. When we first started writing and recording demo songs together the band had heard recent stories saying that eating beef from stressed out cows, on their way to slaughter, could make the consumer 'stressed-out'. Expanding on the idea that placid meat is somehow a smarter choice, someone suggested the idea of smarter milk. The smartest mammal of course being a Dolphin.
1. during the 'Dolphin Milk' conversation, before the song had a name, a demo of this song was recorded in the family living room.
2. The song sounded so good on the demo that the band choose to include it in their session at Cue Recording Studios, where the rest of the 'Dolphin Milk' EP was recorded.
3. For the cover photo; Walter Bell made a 'milk mustache' from a piece of mozzarella cheese and stuck it to his upper lip with elmer's glue. It held for exactly as long as it took to take the one photo before falling in the grass and getting eaten by Marley, the dog.
4. Dolphin Milk was not included on the album, 'Mine for You', though it was a popularly requested song at live shows.
5. In the live version of 'Dolphin Milk' the band all shouted ' get sick ' after the opening guitar riff.
<a href="http://burdenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dolphin-milk" data-mce-href="http://burdenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dolphin-milk">Dolphin Milk by Just</a>