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Opus Minor (fdm143)

by Chris Anderson

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Opus Minor 03:34
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OPUS MINOR thirteen muddy footprints in the fire ten fingers scratching at the flames we took no names, we sought no refuge in the company we made beyond the movement in the haze the room was still, so still our gaze was fixed upon the wall it's not like it was nothing new at all belief, it's nothing more than an imaginary door to everything we ever knew before it left its mark upon the floor we don't need it anymore -2/9/11
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Birds Of A Feather 01:49
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Xennial Blues 03:14
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Cloud Behind The Sun 04:47
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2:58 01:27
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Phoenix (two wings under ground) 04:15
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So back in 2020, the whole world was shut down as covid ran rampant and no one had yet figured out how to cope with it. While that was going on, we all stayed home and, with all this free time on our hands, got busy with a variety of projects.

So was the case in the land of FDM and many projects came into being that year. One such project involved a massive stash of vintage FDM lyrics, most of which had never been used and were instead lost for decades in the margins of notebooks and the back of napkins. Taking those lyrics, as well as a great many that have simply stared me in the face for decades, I proceeded to set as many of them to music as possible. Recording the demos on the voice memo app on my iPhone, this came to be known as The Memo Project and, by the time it wrapped up, over 200 songs had been revived. Some of them were one and done and probably gone forever while others worked out so naturally that it seems odd that it took so long to get to those conclusions. The album, The Thirteenth Step, as well as most of Who Said It Had To Be Fun?, were made up of songs that came from that project, and there are many more to come.

Once that project was done, it came time to move into recording mode, and the autumn's work resulted in a deluge of over 100 recorded songs. Some of them were older songs, recorded for specific projects, some were songs from The Memo Project, and some were just randomly pulled from various corners of the FDM vault. The recordings that make up this EP fall into all of those categories.

"Opus Minor" was written in 2011, during the writing of what became Panic And The Slim Divide. The original demo was lost for many years and new music was eventually written for it. I dig the early Genesis vibe in the beginning of this song.

"Birds Of A Feather" is not the Phish song by that title but was a little scrap of a lyric from 1994, rescued from the margins of a notebook and turned into a song during The Memo Project.

"Xennial Blues" was specifically written in 2020 because, during my virtual Social Distance Tour, I planned an "A-Z" show and then realized that I didn't have a suitable song that started with X.

"Cloud Behind The Sun" was also written in 2020, after my sister came up with the title. My brother-in-law suggested I write a song with that title and, when I went live for my Social Distance broadcast, about an hour later, I played this song. This will be re-recorded for a separate project soon.

"2:58" was another scrap of a lyric that was scribbled on a napkin or something, and turned into a song. This song has been added and removed from this EP many times but I dig its spookiness.

Lastly, "Phoenix (two wings under ground)" is just a couple of lines, rescued from the margins of a 1998 notebook, and set to a very dramatic piece of music. This is one of my favorites.

Attempts to fill this out and turn it into a full-length album kept failing so it became an EP. Songs from this set, as well as the other two that came out on this day, are ones that will be readdressed in the future, probably many times over. There is still a great deal of material to work with, so there will be plenty more projects like this in the future. Stay tuned...

-CA, 1/12/23

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released January 12, 2023

"produced" by Chris Anderson
Recorded in The Room, Fall 2020
Mixed in The Room, Jan 2023

CA: acoustic & electric guitars, bass, mandolin, drum programming, percussion, vocals, other shit.


All songs written by Chris Anderson
(c) CA / Flying Dachshund Music (bmi)


With regards to Krissy.....and The Memo Project.



(p)(c) 2023 Chris Anderson / Flying Dachshund Music. All rights reserved. Violators will be opused.

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Chris Anderson Alexandria, Virginia

Chris is a wildly prolific songwriter who has hovered among the outskirts of the music world for over 30 years. On his own label, Flying Dachshund Music, Chris has released 154 CDs, 96 of them being full-length albums. That's just the tip of the iceberg and there are no signs of stopping. Ever.

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