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White Nights (Bonus track)

from The Secret Life Of Rocks ('06) by Boxwood

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This song probably should have been on this album but I never got around to properly record. I was holding out for an opportunity to add live drums to it. This is probably the best demo version of it I could find.

Named after and inspired by a short story by Dostoevsky, this song reflects the disconnect between the grandiose imaginings that go on in your head and the sad reality of what's actually physically happening... which is nothing, then finding solace in just being the observer.

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"Please come in. No... I was just going over that song I wanted you to listen to. I was hoping you could lend your voice to accompany. A sweet and simple harmony... Oh, excuse the mess. Let me get that stuff off the chair... here, have a seat."

A stupid story line and an image from my head. Oh, I can almost see you as if you were really here. I unfocused my eyes and projected to this lifeless room a compilation of your gestures I've cataloged and set to prance around this empty room. And all this time while my mind is living lavishly my body waits impatiently for... Oh, anything... a fist to bust open my upper lip.

And in the end, as I'm fumbling through conversations, saying awkwardly those things I eloquently said a million times but to those cloths piled on my chair, I recede to a space where the tones most accurately match my cloths and I take on the state of a ghost or a piece of furniture, and I collect all the data I can retain, the swelling caught through all my senses, the chorus in the conversations, the drifting mass like continental plates. I'll add myself in later when I get back to my place.

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from The Secret Life Of Rocks ('06), released October 1, 2006

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Boxwood Hollywood, Florida

Loop artist, Boxwood, takes the art of looping off the beaten path and into new territory interweaving guitar, vocals and percussion to hypnotic effect. Far from being gimmicky, the loop pedal is just the means to an end. The end being catchy and lush, well-crafted songs, performed solo, with all the dynamics of a full band. ... more

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