Title: Dozen Other Loves
Artist: Nakoa, Matt
Label: CD Baby
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 700261402000
Genre: Folk

1. Fool Of A Knight (2:54) A hopeless ode to an alcoholic sweetheart. Bright bluegrass rhythms. Bursting with high lonesome sound harmony. "Time will not forgive you so, baby, why should I?" 2. You Are My Moonshine (3:22) A love song on a playful guitar theme. Glockenspiel peals apart the clouds, and a soft, silvery synth shines through like moonlight. "Your beauty baits the beast in me." 3. Tip Of My Tongue (3:30) An apprehensive love poem punctuated by the sighing of a string trio. "How will I know if her love is laced Until it's too late? ... Well, now it's too late." 4. Barefoot Dancer (4:01) A yellowy snapshot of a boy meeting his mother again, as an adult. This nostalgic rocker runs at the edges into the songwriter's personal family mythologies. "It's a dizzy dance in the hands of time Spinning wild till the last note chimes" 5. Chokecherry Hill (4:06) An almost slow-motion chronicling of the days after a death. "Time and me ... We've tried to make our peace." 6. Stormchaser (3:37) A proclamation of devotion in the face of danger. "I know that I will never leave when I am warned." 7. We All Gotta Go (At Some Point) (3:28) A bare-bones existential blues. "There ain't never been no other time but now." 8. If You're Tryin' To Break My Heart (3:48) High, bluesy vocals peal, a la Robert Plant and a reckless rhythm section careens toward a helter-skelter finish. "I been 'round here drinkin' I been down here thinkin' you're slippin' away from me." 9. Daisies In The Rain (3:15) Slide guitar sets the mournful scene in this one-that-slipped-away ballad. The ghost of Robert Johnson is joined by a choir of woeful townsfolk. "Riddles in the petals she must've got Told her that she's going to love me not." 10. Indian Summer [instrumental] (2:48) (Sometimes there are no words.) 11. Where On Earth Is Heaven? [explicit] (4:16) A scathing inventory of humanity's tendency to choose worldly advancement over our basic values. This groovy, paleo-pop patter (reminiscent of Paul Simon's "Graceland") repeats the question, "What is human nature?" and lists a dozen or so personal reasons to get back to Mother Earth. "I want choirs of crickets singing at night Beneath a jeweled cathedral sky ..." 12. Somewhere Else I Gotta Go (5:25) Three-part harmony adorns this train-beat tribute to wanderlust. "Met a girl from Nova Scotia Who was traveling alone Asked her where she's goin' She said she missed the ocean So she's moving in slow motion toward L.A." Produced by Matt Nakoa & Neale Eckstein Recorded by Neale @ Fox Run Studios, Sudbury MA Mixed & Mastered by Corey Schreppel @ Screpcot Center, Minneapolis MN ... Except tracks 2, 5, 7 & 8, which were Mixed by Neale Photos & Artwork by Danielle Mulcahy Matt Nakoa - vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboards, percussion, banjo, & electric guitar on track 11 Michael Reilly - drums & percussion Walter Skorupski - bass guitar Corey Schreppel - drums on tracks 8 & 12, and additional percussion Mark Johnson - electric guitar on tracks 4 & 12 Michael Hewett - electric guitar on tracks 8 & 10 Lorenzo Wolff - bass on track 11 Neale Eckstein - acoustic guitar on track 6 Backing Vocals: Jared Salvatore & Shannon Corey, Haley Dawn Roth (tracks 6 & 8) Rebecca Muir (track 12), Rebecca Naomi Jones (track 11) Strings: Sarah Whitney - violin, Angela Pickett - viola, Eleanor Norton - cello Strings recorded at by Tim Mitchell @ Brooklyn Aloha Recording, Brooklyn NY Drums & Bass on track 11 recorded by Riley McMahon @ New Warsaw Studio, Brooklyn, NY Tracks 1, 5 & 9 written with Roman Williams Tracks 3 & 12 written with Rebecca Muir and Jared Salvatore Track 6 written with Neale Eckstein and Haley Dawn Roth Track 2 written Seth Romano Matt wrote the rest by his lonesome.

Tracks:
1.1 Fool of a Knight
1.2 You Are My Moonshine
1.3 Tip of My Tongue
1.4 Barefoot Dancer
1.5 Chokecherry Hill
1.6 Stormchaser
1.7 We All Gotta Go (At Some Point)
1.8 If You're Tryin' to Break My Heart
1.9 Daisies in the Rain
1.10 Indian Summer
1.11 Where on Earth Is Heaven?
1.12 Somewhere Else I Gotta Go

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