Download at http://munqs.bandcamp.com/


I had some time to kill 
So 

I thought I'd come by. 
Cuz 
you 
seem to be falling apart 
and I 
feel like I might be 
part. 

I can't live with this 
weighing on my shoulders 
and I can't shrug it off 
I can't just get over 
but I will spiral down 
when I can't find the words 
so I mumble my way through 
when I talk of I and U.

(This song was also featured in an episode of Dir. Adam J. Dunn's minimalist web series 'Lights and a Backdrop'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqm01_EJ-jk  )


Credits:
Written, Recorded and Produced by Corey W. Lawson 
Guitar by Matthew Vannelli 
Mastered by Garrison Grouse

Aspiring singer/songwriter from the Bay Area. 
I come from a family of musicians, but have very recently started composing music on my own.
Sometimes we don't know what we can do, until we try.

This account is both for making playlists of fun local music to listen to and also where I release my own musical projects.  The playlists are local bands from Minnesota.  I also have some videos about local music, dance videos, and performance videos at https://www.youtube.com/@fangar5  Additionally, I also have a blog about the local Minnesota music scene.  You can find my blog at http://mnlocalmusic.blogspot.com/

Recent winners of Vita.mn's Are You Local? Showcase and named one of First Avenue's Best New Bands of 2013, Black Diet is a garage/indie/soul band with a sartorial flair. Indebted to Stax records, they put on shows that look like Baptist church services held at punk houses. Part of a stream of vintage sounding acts coming out of Minneapolis' Pinata Records, they're spitting out sharp, testimonial jams for the masses. 

Standing at 6'5 with a spiky afro, singer/writer Jonathan Tolliver, a soul journeyman raised by a Baptist pastor father and a church singing mother, sticks out like a sore thumb. He rumbles and screeches through songs about abandonment, fear of loss, the devastation of endings. 

They're rounded out by professional burlesque/cabaret singer Mugsy, afrobeat mavens Mitchell Sigurdson and David Tullis, blues rock wailer Sean Schultze, and funk/soul DJ/bassist Garrison Grouse. They form a rhythm unit that's tight and percolating, always ready to fly off the rails if the feel demands. 

I/U

MunQs