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Footprints In The Sand

When I Die

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DateMonthYear album number five
‘Untitled’
Welcome to the review copy of DateMonthYear’s fifth album! This collection we have decided to self-title, as it is very much a summary statement of the last five years of our work. It's a distinctive musical construction, made by unique individuals under very interesting circumstances.                           
     The team: Emma Korez( vocals), Brooke Baker ( Guitar, keyboards, vocals), Tyler Leet (guitar) , Hayley Schwass (bass) with percussionist Trevor Faville on production duties and the highly skilled Scott Newth for engineering and mixing. Mastering was done by Chris Chetland at Kog.
   The venue: Hamilton’s top recording studio ‘The Porch”. 
   The songs: They  cover a wide sonic and dynamic range, the acoustic menace of ‘Numbers’ through the straight up rock of ‘Flowers’ and onwards to the epic rock of ‘March’ and finishing with the epic sonic adventures of ‘South’.It is quite an intense album, and all the songs were written to go together in this way.
 The lyrics:DateMonthYear puts much stock in lyrical content, and the songs in this album are dense, complicated stories; try some of these examples- ands listen for them as you go through.
 Numbers: “when you're dancing with Machiavelli's ghost”
. Flowers: “and we/ were raised/ to be/ the Flowers of an empire’”
July ‘“the paper princess with a dirty crown” 
Exodus “ we signed/ the fine line/ on the terms of your surrender” 
Speed “wasted tropes and castaways, throwing sand into machinery” 
Jupiter' “If I'd never met you/ I never would have fucked you up” 
August “you /and I/ will drag each other under”
 Icarus “ wherever you go, I’m following/ as high as you are/gravity always brings you down”
March “Wrote a letter to God/ about nothing personal/ and if it's nothing personal/ then it's nothing at all” 
South “Awake/ it’s finally over/ what were we thinking of” 

The summary: DateMonthYear music  is cinematic story-telling with many levels of understanding, created with an independent artistic and marketing methodology. We hope you find something of value in it!

Numbers

I'm Bad

Pawns

The jellyfish it fastens tight
On the Fire-witch’s throat tonight
Dragon feathers hide the fire
The sound of trumpets rising higher 

With tentacles and tusks they grapple 
And wretched voices crow and cackle 
Familiar wraiths achieve desire
The sound of trumpets rising higher

All the secret worlds hermetic 
Lend themselves to your cash in
Administer your anesthetic
Your other hand pulls out the pin 

They’ll say you were Illuminati
The order of the golden dawn 
You think you’re climbing up a mountain 
You’re just the game in all the pawns

The weapons on display they gleam
Exploding weeds wreck all machines 
Chaos is a frequent flyer
The stench of filth is rising higher

All that’s sacred is debased
All that’s known will be erased
Eternally you feed the fire
The stench of battle rising higher

All the secrets esoteric
Passed on down from kin to kin 
Turning into some barbaric
Kind of thing you have to win

You think there are Illuminati
The order of the golden dawn 
You think you’re climbing up a mountain 
You’re just the game in all the pawns

Weapons wound and necks are breaking 
As our family expires
These are the myths that you are making
The sound of trumpets rising higher.

Inspired by A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer

Charlie Nieland: Electric Guitar, Bass, Mellotron, Percussion, Programming, Vocals
Brian Geltner: Drums, Samples

Pawns

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Born in 1953 Piet started making music (his first love) from his childhood up. When he was 15, he wrote his first songs and he went on writing better and better, resulting in recording a single in 1977 at EMI. Meanwhile he was a singer/guitar player in several cover-bands but in 1987 he was tired of making music and it was time to do his second love; working on a farm.
For twenty years he spent his time with driving tractors, milking cows and all the other hard work as a hand.
But blood is thicker than water and like many other musicians at that age, he got a mind to make music again.
Earned enough money for living for the rest of his life, he made himself familiar with digital recording with endless possibilities, wrote new songs and in 2012 he had enough stuff to release his album "Footprints In The Sand", which was only released regional.
And he went on and on, writing new songs and recording and in 2015 he finished his second album "The Fair Story".
It's the fair story about power, religion, indoctrination, oppression, exploitation, the human race, overpopulation, people, death and believe in god.
In 2016 he worked on a remix of his album "Footprints In The Sand", as he was unhappy with the sound of the 2012 version and brought it to the world in the Fall of 2016. This album is about his life, starting on how he returned to music after a twenty years intermission. Then it's about some events in his life losing some beloved friends but also about nature and how he's thinking about life and death. Futher on, on this 16 track album, it sounds like a parting, but he hopes it's not!

In 2016 Piet was contacted by a certain Omar Jallow, a young boy from Gambia, who asked for attention for his poor situation.
Although nothing appeared to be that this person really existed and he was probably a deceiver, who wanted to take advantage of the misery of others and therefore Piet broke off the contact after some time, his story was so realistic that it called Piet's attention to the misery in which many people find themselves in the third world countries.
In recent years, Western countries in Europe, North America and Australia have been confronted with large numbers of migrants who, for various reasons, often risked their lives out of pure despair to get out of their native country, plagued by war and natural disasters, which often have a direct or indirect link to climate change in large parts of the world, as a result of global warming, most caused by the economies and ways of life in Western countries.
In 2019 Piet's 3rd album 'OMAR' has been released, which is completely dedicated to these issues.
The lyrics of the smooth acoustic folksongs on this album are intended to make the listeners aware of things that have to do with this, such as the difficult integration of strangers due to cultural differences, the influence of the internet, the fortune seekers, the shocking increase of the world population with about  200,000 people a day and the role played by the big players on the world stage in all of this.

Never forgotten all those songs, written in his first period of making music, in 2020 Piet comes with his 21 tracks fourth album 'Seeking For Lost Time'; New recordings of long-ago written songs, just a re-encounter with the past for him, when he was in his twenties.
The lyrics are about the things that occupied him then, some of them from real life, others fantasy.
Many of these songs are meant to be rather commercial, in order to obtain a record deal at that time and they have the atmosphere and approach of the 70's and recorded and arranged as they were intended back then. However, these songs have never been released before and the listeners can experience them as completely new!

When I Die

Piet Louter