THE FIERCE FACE

Thanks to James Provenza for the 'fro of wildlife.

“I can’t believe you actually did this."
-Evan Michalski

I spent about 11 months, from conception to execution creating the ‘Tape. I began by hacking up my favorite tracks in Cubase in an effort to learn something about the recording software taking up space on my computer. Eventually I sutured 26 songs together into a 35 minute instrumental mix. In the last month I wrote lyrics, mutilated melodies, and excavated all manner of unused weird monologues, limericks, and other writings from my various hard drives. The result is this tape, called The Fierce Face Concerns Himself With Isolating The Cause, certainly the strangest and most-fun thing I’ve ever created.

Features music and samples from Radiohead, Phoenix, Chromeo, Gwen Stefani, The RZA, Calvin Harris, Kings Of Convenience remixed by Royksopp, The Books, Cee-Lo, Hot Chip remixed by Fred Falke, Erlend Oye featuring Soviet, Why?, Angelo Badalamente, Aloha, Perfect Piano Lesson, Tera Melos, E*Vax from Ratatat, Subtle, Antonia Pinto and Ed Cortes from The City Of God OST, Cornelius, Mouse On Mars, Sparklehorse, Pantha Du Prince, and E-Rock.

With melodic and thematic references to Justin Timberlake, Neil Young, Christina Aguilera, Weezer, Shontelle Layne, Santogold, The Mars Volta, ATDI, Bjork, Mew, Mister Metaphor, Paper Rad, Hello Goodbye, Feist, Brilliant Red Lights, Lil Wayne, Andre Benjamin, Back To The Future, Stone Temple Pilots, Hot Chip, TV On The Radio, Gnarls Barkley, Gold Chains, more Phoenix, Marvin Gaye, Good Will, PF Flyers, cool tee shirts, Kanye West and, I guess, Jamie Foxx. Oh, and most definitely R. Kelly!

Shout out to James Provenza for the “cover art” portrait of me with ‘fro of wild animals. Please contact him at jamesprovenza@gmail.com if you need any quality design work!

Read lyrics and info about individual songs here. Download below or at www.brilliantredlights.com. Thanks for listening!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD the Mixtape.