Novelist (The Skin Team, 2013, Magic Helicopter Press), poet, musician (Jordaan Mason and the Horse Museum), and house-show-heartthrob Jordaan Mason has emerged from a musical lull with an intensely personal covers album meant to raise funds for his next album, “The Decline of Stupid Fucking Western Civilization.”
Many of the tracks have been recorded with extreme and specific methods and situations, such as “in february 2007 in a stairwell of winters residence at york university in toronto with a crappy pin-microphone on a crappy laptop” and “while suffocating myself with a plastic bag.”
It’s free if you want it, but funds are appreciated, and if you listen at all, you’ll know that Jordaan’s been going through it, so think about donating. From The Horse Museum bandcamp:
a collection of songs that i did not write but that are very personal to me and that i’ve made personal to me. the recordings themselves are pretty scattered and span a period of several years, though the bulk of them were finally realized or re-recorded in 2014. i did this project to make me feel productive while taking time away from music to finish school and to fight against a depression that reared its head when i least expected it, which uprooted most of the stable things in my life and my sense of self. it’s a little on the long side (okay, a lot on the long side) so it’s been cut into two halves which work as two albums: “he could have been a poet” being tracks 1-10 and “he could have been a fool” being tracks 11-20. i’m keeping them here on one bandcamp page because they are meant to be companions, even if the intention of this project isn’t cohesion, really. i just needed to make something.
this collection is PWYC and you can download it for free if you want to because i didn’t write these songs (though i did occasionally change the lyrics / arrangements), but any & all donations will go towards funding the creation of my next record, “the decline of stupid fucking western civilization,” which i’m going to begin recording in the summer and release next year, and at this point anything you can give would be really helpful in getting this project off the ground – i can’t keep sitting on these songs but i really want to do them justice. i still have a lot of my own things to say, even if i’m still a little bit terrified of what they are.
regardless: hi, i’m still here, i’m still singing.
Robyn, eat your heart out.