What Was, by Vic Dillahay

What Was

by Vic Dillahay

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1.	Broken Tree 05:21	buy track
2.	Clashing Titans 05:47	buy track
3.	Broken Brothers 03:33	buy track
4.	A Lot, A Lot, A Lot 02:01	buy track
5.	A Lot Less 06:28	buy track
6.	Porch Swing 01:39	buy track
7.	Red Door 03:06	buy track
8.	Death Plan 02:40	buy track
9.	High Pressure 05:09	buy track
10.	Settled For 04:42	buy track
11.	Kind Folks 03:15	buy track
12.	Somewhere They'll Find Our Pieces 07:25	buy track

about

With the 10th anniversary of Curious Automata coming up in March of this year (2023), I think it's time to clear out the archives a bit. This is a collection of misfits, whose tone didn't match the projects for which they were intended. Also, in the spirit of moving on, all the tracks on this album are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license so anyone can use them as they see fit.

"Broken Tree" was improvised after my favorite shade tree was split in a late spring storm in 2017. It was previously released as a rough cut for my Bandcamp subscribers but it's much prettier and has been edited for time here. I think it still captures my mood as I waited to see if the tree survived, though.

Tracks 2-12 were all recorded during the two sessions for 2018's "We Were". Those were during the end of my marriage, so they were a bit of an art therapy project as I went through a divorce. I wrote a list of things to remember, then improvised around each idea. For the original album, I decided to lean toward the positive tracks, so the remaining ones here have a bit darker tilt.

I hope you enjoy these moody leftovers, and thanks for listening.

-Vic

credits

released January 2, 2023

Vic Dillahay - Guitars

Track 1 recorded on May 18th, 2017
Tracks 2, 4, 6, and 8 recorded on March 30th, 2018
Tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12 recorded on April 19th, 2018
All tracks recorded in Fort Collins, Colorado.

All tracks released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Full text of that license is available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/