| Lithermans Load | |
| "Sign of the Tmes" | |
| This cut has been a while in the making. We recorded it a few different ways, and this is the final product (until we get it professionally mastered). The theme had been with me for years (decades…) and when Doc sent me this beat, I knew where it had to go. The beat and synth are loops, but the drum roll is real, thanks to Mark Anthony Brown, who you will hear with us again. The guitar in the Chorus is Otto Kinzel IV, who also worked with us on ‘Like That’. He will also be working with us again in the future, and he can be found on myspace. My ManFred kicked out this perfect rendering on the monolog, and we ran it thru a bunch of filters to make it sound archival. It is from a folio from around 1610 called ‘Fama Fraternitatis’. It was published in the wake of the Reformation, a time not unlike our own, as a call to arms for any concerned with the disappearance of concepts like Charity, Compassion, and Moral Fortitude. I was reading it while I was pulling the final concept together, and this piece jumped out at me. It captures our moment as well as it captured one 400 years ago, proving that the human condition doesn’t really vary much. Disparate situations can create very similar circumstances, and we only have a limited number of responses in our repertoire. Please listen twice, and share it with anyone who might agree. Thank you for listening, I think this is the best thing we have ever done… ‘Put your hand up, I’m gonna help you climb.’ -Lithic |
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