I find this song amazing!! Hamilton's dad was my 1st cousin and my best friend  that came back to visit me every summer while growing up in Saskatchewan...I miss him terribly.

are you guy like out to get David Longstreth or something? Tremendous music, too self-important though

"What A Lovely Bandsaw", the first single off Makeunder's upcoming second EP, portrays the weekend frontman Hamilton Ulmer sold off his father's belongings and put his childhood home on the market. It takes to an extreme the maximalist bent of Makeunder's earlier work - frenetic and unwaveringly ebullient, the song bounces between radical sonic contexts, as if the listener is one of the strangers & acquaintances rummaging through a family's cherished belongings, looking for a deal. The string that threads the song together is a collection of found percussion - pieces of metal, an old glass bottle, a power drill, a dusty music stand. As the arrangement deepens and the feigned smile widens, the tragedy of the thing reveals itself, leaving only a handful of weary, grieving voices to sing a soft hymn in an empty home.

HAMILTON ULMER -	vox, backing vox, guitars, synths, samples, bass, percussion
DANIELLE REUTTER-HARRAH -	backing vox
AMY FOOTE -	backing vox
VAN JACKSON-WEAVER -	backing vox
TRAVIS ANDREWS -	guitars
MATT LINDER -	guitars
MARIO GODOY -	alto & tenor saxophones
CAROLYN WALTER -	baritone saxophones
ANDREW MEYERSON -	kit

PRODUCTION - 	Hamilton Ulmer & Justin Sachs
MIXING -	Hamilton Ulmer & Justin Sachs
MASTERING -	Piper Payne
RECORDED AT -	Studio SQ & Hamilton's project studio
ALBUM ART -	Gabriel Schama

What A Lovely Bandsaw!

Remix of Makeunder's "What A Lovely Bandsaw!" by Naytronix. 

"What A Lovely Bandsaw!" appears on Makeunder's "Great Headless Blank" EP out October 14th, 2016 on limited edition vinyl via Good Eye Records. Pre-order - http://goodeyerecords.bigcartel.com/product/makeunder-great-headless-blank-ep-ger001

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"'What A Lovely Bandsaw!' describes the weekend where my family held an estate sale to part with my father's tools & belongings, so my mother could pay off her liens and put the home on the market. We watched hundreds of acquaintances and strangers rummage through every box, corner and cabinet, while we struggled to put a price on things my mother never thought she'd have to sell: finished works of art, handmade furniture, gouges, chisels, saws, a menagerie of power tools. Some we hardly understood how to value, others were important set pieces in my childhood memories. 

My parents never felt like they belonged in Texas and my father likened their mortgage to a prison sentence. They would have been happy to abandon the house and get the hell out of San Antonio for good. In the end, however, it was impossible not to feel overwhelmed as the home quickly disappeared, piece by piece, before we even had a chance to come to terms with everything we'd lost." 

- Makeunder's Hamilton Ulmer
 
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/07/09/417727920/read-the-overwhelming-tragic-story-of-makeunders-great-headless-blank-ep

Makeunder - "What A Lovely Bandsaw!" (Naytronix Remix)

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Makeunder is an experimental pop band out of Oakland, CA. The members of the group pull together diverse musical influences - from Renaissance motet, to synth pop, R&B, and art rock, to modern orchestral music - to craft large, powerful songs about death & migration & loss, sung with immediacy and fire.

What A Lovely Bandsaw!

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