it's coming down - ep

by Erik Bleich

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Recorded over a week or so mid-August 2009, in a living room during the wee hours of the night (when the neighbourhood would turn off their lawnmowers and tuck themselves in for some much needed rest). The intent of the sessions was to produce a series of demos to be used as reference points while recording the full-length "invisible vehicles" over the winter (which we did). We also kind of liked what came out of that little moment of time and thought it'd be nice to share.

100 hand made copies were printed and sold in the ensuing months as a fundraiser/conversation starter for the album - a dozen or so of which were stolen along with the guitar I was playing at the time - an additional fifteen copies were made up as replacements.

I, personally love the accordion "duet" in "Off-Key", which we decided to replace with grand piano on the record instead of trying to replicate it. In addition, the experimentation that led to the folksy orchestration of "Ovaltine" became one of the key building blocks in the arrangement of the ensuing album, and continues to be a reference point to this day.

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released October 8, 2009

All songs written by E. Bleich (who also drew the pictures), and everything you hear was played by either Erik Bleich or Dave Thiel.

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Erik Bleich Toronto, Ontario

Seeking to find a place between what can sometimes feel like opposing worlds, singer/songwriter Erik Bleich creates street-lit lullabies & manic, rambling romps that wander the side streets between rural isolation and metropolitan congestion.

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