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PRESS RELEASE by Kevin Lundahl 080301 Bam….Bam..Bam…Bammm…bam The sound of a hammer driving nails into pressed particle board, on two by fours, filled with R19 insulation, under two four by eight foot plywood sheets. All that even before the drum rug could be stapled onto this 8x8 drum riser. (and even before it was placed on top of 4 eighteen inch bald motorcycle tires) Bam … bammm …bam (this time on the front door) “who is it?” “what are you guys, building a boat? Keep it down, I’m trying to study.” Those comments from the downstairs neighbor, (a.k.a. dickhead), inspired the next musical project. Aye, Matey! Why yes, weer’ building to go shrimping’ weer’ building THE SHRIMPTRAWLER. Immediately a watch cap and nylon windbreaker were hastened from the closet. Outside, a light mist and gray fog rolled eerily into Charles Village on that fateful Sunday Afternoon in February, 1999. The boat was taking on water. The Shrimptrawler refuses to hide from its identity as a diary at sea. One plan called for sea-sick pills to be installed into the spine of the jewel-box. Smarter minds prevailed on that call. The idea was for reverb and feedback loops, techniques that were implemented in the construction of “The Lex O’Brien Soundscape”, to dominate the background of this CD, creating an unsteady and warbly listen, as if someone is trying to get their sea legs on the starboard deck. The Shrimptrawler (as in the boat, or the drum kit) had to be relocated to the UV-373 drum sal
