Who Could Win a Rabbit #6

PILL WONDER "Jungle/Surf" (Underwater Peoples Records, 2010)

The Underwater Peoples Recording Company is proud to present Pill Wonder's first LP, the fuzzy, untamed pop miracle, Jungle/Surf.

Like the lush tropics, Jungle/Surf lulls a weary journeymen with soft koos and delicate trickles. Visions of tribal maidens beneath slow motion waterfalls cloud the hiker as he plummets himself into the hot and wet greenery. Plunging ever deeper, those who dare fall in love with the jungle's hallucinogenic qualities soon find growling jaguars brushing up against their calves and trumpeting elephants announcing their arrivals. The monkeys swing amongst crooked trees and rusty radio towers, their chirps and howls seem to harmonize with the frequencies murmuring through the sky.

As night falls, the jungle disco's euphoric energy becomes almost frightening. The seasoned travelers heart beats like that of a hummingbird and his eyes become wide like those of flies. Despite miles of hiking, the man feels as light as feather, "How can this be?" he declares. "What is this place?!" And as if the Jungle heard his queries, at that very moment our adventurer hears the faint sounds of distant drumming. Now he is faced with a choice, go forth into the beautiful dark density or retreat back to base camp, content with already enough experience to write a hundred memoirs.

Underwater Peoples Records invites you to draw your machete, lace tight your boots and venture with us into the deep, unknown world of Pill Wonder. Like no other terrain ever explored, Jungle/Surf is diverse, exotic and utterly undefinable. While I can not promise your past hiking experience will help you navigate this lush and mystical world, I can assure all who enter with an open heart and mind, will leave forever changed.

Pill Wonder's Jungle/Surf was recorded by William Murder/Murdoch in a two year span at the house where he has spent all 22 years of his life, just north of the U District in Seattle, WA - under the roof where the rain hits hard all year 'round, Will recorded during lonely afternoons, often while his mother was at work at the University of Washington Math Library.

Using an old DELL desktop computer in his bedroom, with the illegally downloaded Adobe Audition recording software, Will employed boxes of macaroni 'n cheese, a little kid's drum set purchased at a garage sale, and often beat boxing for his rhythm tracks. Other than that, a 3rd grader's recorder, an electric guitar of the Fender variety, a guitar amp of the Fender variety, some sort of cheap keyboard and one Shure SM 57 microphone made up the rest of his recording equipment.

I'm proud of what he has employed and been able to create. There was always a ray of sunshine in our post-Kurt town just a half a mile away from me, and for that I thank you Will.

(by Underwater Peoples' Sawyer Carter Jacobs & Dana Jewell)

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