Gosh, I look around and see all these broke musicians I know asking for money on here... Well I reckon I shouldn't be any different.

The new album, "Ghosts Dance Lightly on the Puncheon Floor", is available in its entirety for free download here:

http://www.archive.org/details/Savage_Ideal_Ghosts_Dance_Lightly_On_The_Puncheon_Floor



IF you would like a lovely limited edition CDr of this release, it comes in a handsome collage turned into nifty covers. For $12 including S&H, I will mail a copy of this record, Along with an origional, limited edition print from the Of What Standards Fall Short? collage series, to your United States address.

WHAT A DEAL!!

If you want an origional instead of a print add an extra $5.

Apparently the Front Range is a job-desert, and I am selling a keyboard to finance loading up my car and wandering the ski towns in search of work. So take advantage of this crumbling capitalism and my crumbling life to score some sweet art and a great record too! Woohoo!

Orders can be paypal-ed to cawright2007@yahoo.com. Also, if you are interested in a hard copy of any of the rest of the Buried Electric Catalog, let me know!

It has been one month short of a year when the last of my tracks was completed... then one postponement and hang up after another... finally... after 17 months...

Mastered and all with some nice contributions (tracks 1,9, & 12) by Dan from Worms of the Earth, you can listen for yourselves + free DL:

http://www.archive.org/details/Savage_Ideal_Ghosts_Dance_Lightly_On_The_Puncheon_Floor


Like a lot of people from the South I caught that bug where you get obsessed with the history and keep reading about it and visiting it... naturally I was drawn to the darker / political aspects... which is pretty much all of it. I filled up an entire folder of notes and had written 25 pages without a thesis by the time I realized that every question I had already had a book written about it by someone else that pretty much told me what it was I was trying to figure out. So rather than refighting some old beaten to death literary question of the past, I made a musical tribute to that... region.

The basis was a lot of samples / field recs I did in the old mines and rail yards and natural settings of the mountainous areas... some friends also helped me do more recs in an industrial park in Atlanta and in New Orleans. Then there was guitar and moog... with filler sounds here and there.

Also, the Buried Electric site has just been re-designed at http://www.noisenobodys.com. The whole back- catalog is pretty well organized there now which it hadn't been in the past. 003 is PRETTY ROUGH production wise (has some B sides though)... but that was probably inevitable. Everything else I'm pretty darn proud of though.

Heading back up to lovely FT Collins. Set will be mostly new stuff. See you then!

The occasion to relay to something from the comfortable free-for-through-hikers internet of this lovely Leadville Hostel.

Leadville... the last, best... of the Colorado Mountain Towns. The perfect mix of deformity and kindess that makes small town America worth being a part of....


Something in my personality makes me hate the "LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, I JUST DID THIS, BUY THIS, COME TO THIS, LISTEN TO THIS, BLAH BLAH BLAH" Self promotional hell. Personally I'd rather just look weird and focus on the music. Ignore the audiance... my keyboards are turned sideways. Have some kind of lead singer even if they must stare at something. I do feel in part that the alienation and pathetic, rupert murdock enriching advertising scams we all faciliate with our own internet profiles are a signifiant part of why I became a utah river guide, why my favorite films are vanishing point and zaberiskie point, and why I am currently walking for 480 miles across Colorado to leave the stench and the nightmares and the beer and the decay of the overpriced, jobless, venerial hell of American Civilization as far away as I can for as long as I can possibly afford it. The best thing left that you can do in this country is drive across a desert into a sunset on your way to play a concert. So get out there and do it, however you can. Get the hell out of the shoebox nightmare of plasma bleech and virtual pretention.

I don't know what the answer is. But these things I do feel. As a poor substitute for an actual way out of this mess it's all I can offer at this time.

Comradely,

My humble $.02

Hear it on the player here

http://www.myspace.com/savageideal

Grey Lies Rule the World is a song about

exactly what we are dealing with.

"Song of the Saw", the second collab with Dan for the Ghosts album, got added to the player at the savage ideal site:

http://www.myspace.com/savageideal

Dan's noise drums and composition + Christian's field rec's & voice samples.

Hear more of Dan's stuff if it interests you at

http://www.myspace.com/wormsoftheearth

The apocalypse sample... Especially for that album.

To the native Americans, to the people in Africa who were kidnapped and enslaved, to the eastern mountain lions and elk who were hunted to extinction, to the big tress most all of whom were cut down, to the air that's choked with poison, to the fish who swim in the same, to the miners who died in explosions and cave ins that killed hundreds at a time, to the people who had everything they owned burned to the ground in 1864-65 in the defense of "an outmoded value"... etc... American history has been nothing short of an Apocalypse. The Southern variant of it has exceeded the norm not only in its level of brutality but in its innovative construction of a mythology of lies with which to ease the conscience of life in such a way.

The new live set has tons of drums in it... club accessible... more lighthearted.

It's also a rejection of Apocalypticism... which is odd for someone in the "industrial" genre to undertake.

You see I had planned to write a "desert punk" album, about the ghost towns and The Freedom and the myths of the old west and forgotten times and places and our idealization of them, sort of like what I had already done for the east coast with Ghosts Dance Lightly on the Puncheon Floor. But instead of doing that I got laid off, and broke, and I had to sell lots of gear, and I couldn't afford to go to all those places out here that I had researched and wanted to get found sounds and inspiration from.

Before everything went totally to hell I think it was right to write songs like "side effects".... now though that everything has gone to hell reminding people of the impending doom facing their civilization is a little moot... people don't need doom and gloom right now, and the only ones for whom such 'end of the world' perspectives are really attractive are the right wing psychos freaked out about a black president... that nazi who went to my brother's job and started shooting people was like that.... way not cool... I can't think of anything more cliche, unimaginative, and disempowering that to write another Apocalypse album right now.

The conclusion I have reached, that the song tempos / tones / lyrics, etc... reflect, is that when things are going to hell, people don't need artists to pour even more doom and gloom and fear upon them. Banging out your frustrations industrial drumming style is alright... but beyond that we need songs that are more positive, upbeat, and affirming.

You'll either love it or hate it, but I think these songs are pretty damn good. They'll be played twice at live shows this weekend. See you there.

Will be at Smokin Joes with Plasmacrash, The Silver Cord and Postmodern Troll.

4700 Kipling Street, Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033

No cover, woohoo!

More details and a flyer perhaps to come

Less than a month out!

If you aren't aware, I've written pretty much an entirely new set to perform here. Most of it will probably surprise you, but I'm sure most people will enjoy all of it. Dance people will be happy. Industrial people who want to see stuff being banged on will most likely be happy. There's even a nod in here to the guitar loving neo-folk crowd.

I have always put a lot of effort into all live shows I've ever done. I think this one will be able to live up to that record.

See you there :)

Gosh? Where to begin?

I'm self released about 9 albums by now... in various DIY formats, and some online for free. I've also printed out and sent a lot of press kits and emails to various places only to hear no or no response from them. That kind of blows. Part of me is willing to press a few hundred versions of the new CD and try to distribute myself but another part of me isn't sure I really want to do all that. I'm better at writing music, not so good at promoting it.

I feel like I am pretty good at music, and I have definately put my money where my mouth is and made the effort to put together good live shows, play in different states, record with good gear, get out in the field to find interesting new sounds to write with, etc... Every time I hear about some EBM band that is a guy with his computer who has never played a show before getting picked up by some big label I think a little part of me dies :(

If you are interested, the new album (#3) is almost finished being mastered. #4 is started as well. If you would like information, or links to demos/ bio info, just let me know.

-Christian / Savage Ideal