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MP3 Faux Jean - The Mongolian Invasion
13 MP3 Songs in this album (37:20) !
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As I was preparing to contemplate a move last year, I came across a big box of largely unmarked cassette tapes. These were songwriting tapes going back a decade (1997 to 2007) and most of them only had a month or year listed on the sticker. I decided that I would listen to all of these tapes and write down what existed on each tape before I had to move. This was no mean feat. I drank plenty of champagne and set myself to the task.
I played all of the instruments and sang all of the vocals on all of these tapes. One could argue that I lacked the training to do this well––high school choir only gets you so far. So as I spent the two weeks listening to and cataloging my post-pubescent rants, I came across some really bad stuff. But there existed a small handful of performances that I found charming to my ringing ears.
It should be noted that my eponymous band had disbanded and I was half-assedly embarking on a solo career around this time. I decided to collect these few “charming” songs from the discordant sprawl and issue them on cassette tape that I could pass to friends and fellow musicians to let them know that I was striking out as a solo artist.
And so I carted a shoebox full of these annotated cassette tapes over to Albatross Studios to create a master that I could give to the cassette duplicator people. Under the careful eye of Albatross sonic guru Mike Wisti, a tascam four-track cassette player was somehow connected to a CD burner! Suddenly, these songs existed on a master CDR. I then rushed to the cassette duplication factory. Thus “The Mongolian Invasion” was born.
An orange plastic cassette tape with a black and white photo-copied sleeve was now my ticket to success. I started giving tapes to friends, bookers, journalists. I made a point of giving a copy to everyone who worked at the 112 eatery, a Minneapolis restaurant where I had been working at the time. The chef, Isaac Becker, expressed dismay that his life had gotten to the point where he no longer owned a cassette player. “Why don’t you just put it out on CD?” he asked. I proceeded to rub my fingers together in such a way that indicated lack of funds.
“F@#k it, I’ll put it out on cd!” said the benevolent chef of the 112 Eatery. And that is how the 112 eatery became the executive producer of “The Mongolian Invasion” in the sexy digi-pak format that is for sale here today.
Why is it called “The Mongolian Invasion?” That’s a story for another day.
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