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Chop Wood, Carry Water

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RANCIDMEATATTACK a journey that seems to stretch beyond the duration and yet never overstays its welcome. a very special piece of work. and yes I chose this track because it is the greatest single title ever and that gets it over the line amongst equal company. keep chopping and carrying x Favorite track: BE SAFE (YOU CAN GET NALOXONE IN NSW WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION FOR FREE) 191012.
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CHOP WOOD, CARRY WATER

hello. it's adam. from that pleasure band. firstly i love you, then firstly thanks for buying this record. pretty cool of you. music is so dumb and i love it more than anything. it seems like you are potentially about to or maybe are even currently listening to our music and i appreciate that so much. i've either hand written this therefore it will be illegible or maybe i've convinced someone else to handwrite it to give it a manufactured personal feel. or maybe we ran out of time and it's just typed. pleasure is a three piece that improvise music with a focus on drums, out of the box synthesizers and effects and immediate emotive presence. this record is a little bit different to the other ones we've released because instead of the tracks all being from the same record session they are from all over the place. we tend to always be recording because rehearsing, writing and playing shows is all kind of the same thing for us. we set up a bunch of gear and just play and then stop. so these songs are all from different times we have done that. mostly in our small studios in Golden Retriever in Marrickville, Sydney. TRACK 01 SELF SUCK 210321 was from a jam right around the time we were releasing our last album and i was fixated on trying to jam in a way that was going to result in a more radio friendly track. not sure how much we succeeded with that. kind of wish it got to the point a bit quicker. after that we have TRACK 02 I'M READY 190813. the main synthy chord that starts it is actually jono on the bass somehow. we can't remember how this was done but i think it's pretty cool. also kind of annoying that i have so many synths in my setup and jono makes a cooler sounding pad using his bass. hugh didn't want TRACK 03 GET OVER IT FUCKHEAD 200731 to be on the record cause he said the drums sound like he's running out of ideas. i think the whole thing has an interesting mood so wanted to put it on. hence the title. when we have a show coming i usually get a bit nervous about what we're going to play because we don't really have songs but then that's kind of the point anyway TRACK 04 HENSON 190719 is from one of those sessions. we have hours and hours of jams like this, that i feel like have good energy, but they don't really go anywhere so only feel good if they are really long or really short. also generally it takes us ages to setup and hugh and i start playing while jono is still setting up his session for recording and so he starts recording in the middle of a jam, and we miss the start of it. they're normally the better ideas as well for some reason. this was one of them and those are the reasons it's so short. we were asked to compose the theme song for a podcast about sex called Search Engine Sex so we booked an evening in the live room at Golden Retriever and jammed for about 2 hours. i liked a lot of the stuff that came out of it and we had to heavily edit one of them to make it work for the podcast. TRACK 05 LOVE INSIDE ME feat. The Good Boys 200219 is from that session and we got our great friend andy from The Good Boys to do a guitar solo on it. first time we've really collaborated with someone like that outside of the live shows. andy is really great. then there is a track to try encourage everyone in our community who may ever use or be around anyone that might use party drugs to try have a safety measure called naloxone around because it can save lives. someone in the sydney music community tragically died in an accident that could have potentially been prevented if there was more awareness to the access of naloxone. it's TRACK 06 BE SAFE (YOU CAN GET NALOXONE IN NSW WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION FROM ANY PHARMACY) 191012 the plan was to put a song to radio where the DJ would have to read the track name out and spread awareness and some really great shows on community radio across australia did. it's probably the first time i'd felt like our music was really doing something good in an altruistic way and it got me thinking about all these great artists that have political and social purposes as a core part of their practice and how much more sense that makes to the somewhat self indulgent aims that our practice has. it's from the saint albans recording and i always really liked it but thought it was maybe too similar to that brain waste song. now we're back in jono's room. the room that's on the back of this insert. we had a jam after not seeing each other in a long time which resulted in TRACK 07 HARDLY 210203. this is the first time i had ever used the Soma Laboratory LYRA-8. chop wood, carry water. if you have any thoughts, feelings or questions i would love to hear or discuss them. pleasepleasureplease@gmail.com is probably the easiest way. pleasure is JONATHAN BOULET, ADAM CONNELLY and HUGH DEACON. recorded, mixed and mastered by JONATHAN BOULET art by BEEDALLO. this record was released through Disasters by Choice in Rome, Italy. thanks heaps to salvo for your continued support. disastersbychoice.com thanks to all our friends, family and colleagues who have encouraged, enabled and supported this project both directly and indirectly.

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released November 4, 2022

adam connelly
hugh deacon
jonathan boulet

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pleasure Sydney, Australia

pleasure is a Sydney based music project that utilises rich distorted synths, irregular drum beats and fluid song structures to create energetic hypnotic sound pieces that straddle the line of bright and abrasive.

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