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MP3 Geoff Baker - Adding Up the Everything We Lost
5 MP3 Songs in this album (16:46) !
Related styles: FOLK: Alternative Folk, ROCK: Americana
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"I used to live for hope, but now I know I can''t handle it."
--from the song, "Gaslight (Oh Tomorrow)"
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This 5-song EP is Geoff Baker''s first release since 2004, when his full-length debut ("Know the Rain Here") and an angry political EP ("Patriot Acts") got scattered international airplay. Both projects also earned Geoff praise for their fierce honesty, insightful lyrical originality, and fresh and catchy blend of traditional folk styles and innovative arrangements. London''s Time Out magazine called “Patriot Acts” a “fine line in protest song,” and Jeff Lisciandrello, of New Jersey’s Upstage Magazine, hailed “Know the Rain Here” as "a rare combination of effortless finger-picking, mesmerizing vocals, deep lyrics and beautiful melodies" that was "nothing short of unforgettable."
The new CD, “Adding Up the Everything We Lost,” continues in that vein. The lyrics are personal and incisive, and while they chronicle things that went wrong they find energy in the memories. Musically, the songs range from Geoff’s virtuoso finger-picking (“Hope Is Not a Compass,” “Dolorosa”) to all-ahead acoustic rock (“Gaslight”), to meditative balladry about past perfect mornings (“None of This Is Real”), to an indescribable blend of songwritery introspection and sheer road-trip momentum (“Indiana”). This album tries to put its finger on the exact moment where things came apart, it does it while singing along, and it offers you a sonic band-aid for things it’s too late to fix.
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Geoff was born in Inglewood, California, borrowed a guitar at the age of 14 and never really gave it back. He lives in northern California and is hard at work on the next CD, "Where Are You Now?"
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Eric Kvortek, Geoff Baker, and John Staedler produced, engineered and mixed in various studios, basements, and bedrooms in New Jersey and California.
Alan Douches mastered at West West Side Music in New York.
Geoff played guitars, bass, keyboards, and percussion, programmed drum and noise loops, and sang.
Austin Faxon played drums on “Gaslight (Oh Tomorrow).”
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