Blood no longer flows through my veins 
Everybody in my dreams is trying to kill me 
Open up your lie, and talk with me tonight 
And let's get inside 
Inside 

I just might be down enough on my luck 
to consider opening up old wounds 
I just might be scared enough of my dark 
to entrust my embarrassment with you 

My shadow talks 
And I'll listen to it 

Desperado, Frenchman lying down on the couch 
I am walking by 
an official by my side 
There's a plot to have me killed under these hallways lights 

A junkie kickin' his habit falls out of his habitat 
My chance to grab at that gun 
I shoot and run 
The hit man hired to do me in is just behind

Hello, my Dark | Animal Holograms

A cup of red to turn down 
The static of the internal radio
Eyes are bleeding black
From holding back everything that
Philemon has demanded of
Our Sun, into us

A couple white and greens now
I’m feeling like I may be able to sleep
Though I don’t want to drift
Too far away 
From my memory of this
Fleeting moment of
Our Sun, into us, into us, into us

How come I always feel like I’m drowning?
All in the art of sleep
I can never catch my breath long enough to…
It’s in the art of sleep

A double with my sixteen
Shaking up the stiff and lax
Benzene rings coupling with the rest
Of my chemical mess
I don’t need a hero to make a model of
Just our Sun, into us

Some trouble with my focus
I think I’m seeing double or there are just two moons
I’m not amused now that I can’t differentiate 
I need to fixate on one thing, oh look!
Our Sun, into us, into us, into us

I don’t want to feel it when
I slip between right now and then
Can’t you give me something
So that I’m not feeling
When I am passed through the hole
In the wall where I play my role?
Everybody is outside, nobody is inside
Everybody is inside, nobody is inside

I don’t want to feel it when
I slip between right now and then
Can’t you give me something
So that I’m not feeling
When I am passed through the hole
In the wall where I play my role?
Everybody is outside, nobody is inside
Everybody is inside, nobody is inside

How come I always feel like I’m drowning?
All in the art of sleep
I can never catch my breath long enough to…
It’s in the art of sleep
How come I always feel like I’m drowning?
All in the art of sleep
I can never catch my breath long enough to…
It’s in the art of sleep


Art Of Sleep | Animal Holograms

[Terrence McKenna audio sample: "...the psychedelic state, to transcend the belief in the inner world and the outer as somehow separate"]

Blood no longer flows through my veins
Everybody in my dreams are tryin' to kill me
Open up your lie
And talk with me tonight
Let's get inside
Inside...

I just might be down enough
On my luck to consider opening up
Old wounds
I just might be scared enough
Of my Dark to entrust my embarrassments 
With you

My Shadow talks
And I'll listen to it

Desperado, Frenchman lyin' down on the couch I am walkin' by
An official by my side
There's a plot to have my killed under these hallway lights

A junkie kickin' his habit falls out of his habitat 
My chance to grab at that gun
I shoot and run
The hit man hired to do me in is just behind....

IV.  Hello, My Dark

Swirling and shattering 
The heart of a century old woman
Staring at me, I'm frozen; I can't move
I was humbled by the paint
And I stumble before I paint

I was so captivated my soul was elevated
To a height I had never known until now
I don't ever want to come down
I want to stay here until I drown
In the brilliance of her

My head is so full of chemicals I'm losing myself in the wall
The dissolution of my thoughts into a stochastic syntactic fall
I am helpless as I merge and become the son
Of the Mother of whom I have no memory of

Some sort of history comes in between us
I don't want to hear about anything that we do
I was brought here by you
And I'll stay here until I find the Truth

My head is so full of chemicals I'm losing myself in the wall
The dissolution of my thoughts into a stochastic syntactic fall
Well, I am helpless as I merge and become the son
Of the Mother of whom I have no memory of

Home is a warm cave in the Dark
I lurk in a well for water to expel 

The Devil inside my pocket
Made a bet with me and he lost it all
The Devil inside the socket
Electrocuted himself to Hell

My head is so full of chemicals I'm losing myself in the wall
The dissolution of my thoughts into a stochastic syntactic fall
I am helpless as I merge and become the Sun
Of the Mother of whom I have no memory of

The Devil inside my pocket
Made a bet with me and he lost it all
The Devil inside the socket
Electrocuted himself to Hell

III.  Ferdinand Hodler

I've been going over black cats in my mind
I don't know if I can make it but I know I'll try
I put on my shoes, but I do not lie
You've been making me to choose but I don't want this life
You've been making me to suffer, but I don't know why

Come and waste time with...

Black cats scratching at the screen on my front porch
Turning the metal into cinders for this torch
Fires burning the city down to glass
Turning the atmosphere into an oxygen mask

I was in the other lane
I was going the other way
I was in the backyard waiting for my train
I didn't think that it was going to come anyway 

I am a moral cripple whose actions react and ripple
Through time like vines crawling
High in the stratospheric where light is loud I can almost hear it
Now that we've finally found peace with the ground

I've been going over black cats in my mind
I've been dreaming of a dark dance behind my closed eyes
I put on my shoes, but I do not lie
I've been going over black cats, black cats in my mind...

I.  Black Cats

A demo written for the new Animal Holograms album, 'This is Not a Psych-Rock Record'. Our second release and first official full length on Monoblack Records will be available July 5th, 2016.
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I saw myself walking through a window
Only one of us waved good, goodbye
i solina we came out, out from
Underneath rocks that fell down from the sky

Brother, I wonder where you've gone?

I can't be helped by you anymore
It's tearing me apart inside, alright
You can't be helping me anymore
It's taken it's toll on you, don't cry
I'll be fine

Into the sun that we came out, out from
Eschaton attracts the past and laughs while swallowing
Memories of sea foam poetry
Written by nobody
Everybody’s all alone

Well, Hello, brother, I wonder where you've gone?

I can't be helped by you anymore
It's tearing me apart inside, alright
You can't be helping me anymore
It's taken it's toll on you, don't cry
I'll be fine

I can't be helped by you anymore
It's tearing me apart inside, alright
You can't be helping me anymore
It's taken it's toll on you, don't cry
I'll be fine

Brother, I wonder where you've gone?

Sometimes living here makes me want to live somewhere I've never been, some place I can't imagine
Someone loving you makes me want to
Play the fool and act out whatever I need to
Nobody’s inside, everybody is inside
Everybody’s outside, nobody is outside

Walking Through Mirrors (demo) | Animal Holograms

You were the Sun 
for a time,
but then you'd run away 
from the light.
You internalize 
every crime, 
naked in the water, 
sounds of "hello?"
echoing lullabies.

Some day, 
far away from now,
you and I
will write a fiction
with our time
spent
in the Sun.

I wanted to tell you about
my death in the canyon, 
but you said that you were too
busy getting born again. 
A doctor in the desert said, 
"Son, you will be reborn"
You'll live again to tell about your death
But not before you've been warned
about
the Sun, 
and how
it spun
around
until
it was nothing at all. 

Naked In The Water (demo) | Animal Holograms

Roooough (and incomplete...) demo of "Walking through Mirrors".  

Sloppy drums, "meh" bass, cacophony of guitars and lazy vocals all performed by Jason Williams

I saw myself walking through 
a window 
Only one of us 
waved good, good bye 
i solina 
We came out 
Out from underneath 
rocks that fell down from 
the sky 

Brother, I wonder 
Where you've gone 

I can't be helping you 
anymore 
it's tearing me 
a part inside 
Alright? 

And you can't be helping me 
anymore 
it's taking it's toll 
on you, don't cry 
I'll be fine 

Into the Sun that 
we came out 
out from 
Eschaton 
attracts the past and laughs 
while swallowing 
memories of sea foam poetry 
written by nobody 
Everybody's all alone, well hello 

Brother, I wonder 
Where you've gone 

I can't be helping you 
anymore 
it's tearing me 
a part inside 
Alright? 

And you can't be helping me 
anymore 
it's taking it's toll 
on you, don't cry 
I'll be fine 

Brother, I wonder 
Where you've gone 

Sometimes living here makes me want to live 
Somewhere I've never been 
Some place I can't imagine 
Someone loving you makes me want to 
Play the fool 
And act out how ever I need to 

Nobody's inside 
Everybody is inside 
Everybody's outside 
Nobody is outside 

Sometimes living here makes me want to live 
Somewhere I've never been 
Some place I can't imagine 
Someone loving you makes me want to 
Play the fool 
And act out how ever I need to 

Nobody's inside 
Everybody is inside 
Everybody's outside 
Nobody is outside

Toponym Hymnal

Walking through Mirrors

Walking Through Mirrors | Teaser ROUGH Demo (alternate version)

Tascam HD file name and FAT drive partition #: [SONG047 - Partition 04]

TOPONYM HYMNAL - Tascam NEO2488 (Exported St. Masters)

"There is a Gulf Between Us (demo)" by TUNDRAS

It seems like only yesterday
that we met
in the hallways of our high school
tryin' to act cool
But in time we peeled away our facades
?
Before we called each other out

But what,

Polychrone (Actual demo title: Polychroniac) [SONG058 - Partition 04]

Testing out my newly acquired Studiomaster 16-8-2 analogue console.  No headphones unfortunately...lots of bleed.  Love the EQ and having three aux sends/returns is handy.  The sibilance/plosives could have been avoided, but I was being a lazy ass.  

When listening with headphones, put the left side over your right ear and vice versa.  I crossed my monitor cables....dingus.





Incomplete Elliott Smith Cover - "A Fond Farewell" (From a Basement on the Hill)

This is an old demo I recorded god knows when. It was sadly forgotten about for many years until coming across the lyrics scribbled in one of my old ledgers. The tune came right back to me, but finding the recording on my computer was draining. Anyway, this is a "mutant" version of that short demo which I almost lost forever. A new and improved extended version of The Ghost will appear on 'Apeiron' later this year!

Apeiron

The Ghost

The Ghost (demo) | 'Apeiron' To Be Released in 2017

Difficult to pinpoint stylistically, Animal Holograms are an elusive trio. High intensity, complex songs are balanced out by hypnotic, minimalist pieces often carried by Arabic and African based rhythms. 

Jason Williams - Vocals and guitars
Danny Ong - Guitars and synths
Marshall Greenhouse - Drums, hand percussion, Korg, Kaossillators and rhythmic effects/electronic drone and beat loops designer
Shannon Greenhouse - Vocals, theramin, saw, snare and keys
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"Jason Williams, the mastermind behind Chicago based project Animal Holograms makes big waves with his debut E.P. "Phantasmagoric Menagerie". Leading off with the high energy number "Black Cats" Williams pushes the envelope between art rock and indie pop with a healthy dose of noise driven guitar chaos. The captivating feel of "Psychoasis" carry things on an atmospheric whirlwind that channels the spirits of Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips while the synth drenched sounds of "Ferdinand Hodler" give way to an upbeat yet overall darker tone. It's a brilliant balance of both moody and uplifting territory. This mood continues with the dirge like grind of "Hello Mr. Dark" which at some point moves into a delightful realm of shoegaze bliss. Things wind down as the lulling presence of "The World Is Math" cap everything off with a collection of highly experimental textures that reverberate inside your mind . A beautiful collection of psychedelic dream pop wizardry."

--Dave Allison (Custom Made Music)

"Animal Holograms back up their stylish shoegazer tunes with some real muscle. A delectable saunter is developed in the tempo that carries the reach of everything across commendably. It is in these statures that the depth of tone is developed. Lingering qualities in the tempo follow a formulaic approach that is exacted with originality. As a result a due course falls across the causality of the tone neatly but also drives the worth of the tracking through in the meandering of the drift on show. Other tunes seem to grab the momentum when required. That sees a leaner calling answered in terms of how everything then sounds. In the operation of everything there is a mastery that truly gets to grips with the task at hand. What you get with this band is something that is very much on the proverbial money with the disenfranchised underground feel that permeates in the music." 

--U&I Unsigned and Independent Magazine

"Somewhere between the vocal stylings of Marc Bolan and Elliott Smith, Jason Williams’ voice is a hypnotic and understated element of Animal Holograms, a Chicago-based trio with a dreamily loose sound that blends shoegaze and dream-pop. What started as a solo project of Williams’ evolved into a trio consisting of Nick Biscardi and Jesse Askren. Now, Animal Holograms have their debut full-length - í sólina – slated for a May release. Judging by already-released tracks like ”lengi nætur”, listeners could be in for something special.

Starting with a progression that resembles both spacious post-rock and spaghetti-western nonchalance, ”lengi nætur” immediately shows Animal Holograms’ knack for atmosphere. Williams’ ghostly croon creeps in over the passive percussion and murmuring guitars, while an organ emerges as a bridge to a successfully clanky hook that is capped off by an elongated guitar solo. Much of the lyrics throughout the track are obscured somewhat by the gently involved production, which surely takes a cue from shoegaze. The actual instrumentation is more in the vein of post-punk and alternative, with a touch of glam-rock’s moodier bits. ”lengi nætur” is a great entry for listeners, as are tracks like ”halló dökk mín”."
 
--Mike Mineo (Obscure Sound)

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