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Sacred Cities Of The Heart (draft)
by Burk Skyhorse Price
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Sacred Cities Of The Heart has been a long time coming. I have been trying to bust off a solo album for, well....YEARS. The motley yet extremely determined pack of demons that has been sabotaging my creative efforts all along showed up in full force this time as well.

I just gave em the double Califlifornia Fuckfinger, with some sweet New York hip action tossed in, and dove in anyway.( Demons suck as bad as Leprechauns, but they're way more fun to party with). So of course every single important piece of recording gear I owned picked this time to blow up.

I replaced it all, to the detriment of my already anemic bank account. The manufacturers of Top Ramen were most pleased to see my return business.

The result of all this technomystical Goon Babble Rupture was Sacred Cities Of The Heart, which is a true solo project because I played all the instruments; it was just me, my Ibanez guitars, Greg Beasley's Ibanez bass which he was kind enough to loan me, my beloved Line6 POD, and my first time ever in life being my own drummer. I have always massively respected the rhythmic thrashomotor synapse poundage of the Drummiferous, but after being the drummer for this project, that respect has grown into awe for the things a drummer must do night after night after night.

So here it is, the official Burk Skyhorse Price solo album. Straight outta Pittsb.....NAAAAH, that phrase is already overused, soooo....

Vectoring vicious in Ultrablue photonic haze, right onto Bandcamp it beams, and we shall just see what we shall see....
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Burk Skyhorse Price, Pittsburg/Benicia California, May19 2016

*Recorded Pittsburg Ca, Feb 11-May 1, 2016 using an ADAT XT mixed to analog tape, burned to CD, then wav'd goodbye and uploaded to Bandcamp. I wanted that oldschool warmth and fat ass low end that great bands had, like Queen and Priest and Jimi and Sabbath and P Funk and..Ed Zeffler...Zach Lleffler Fred Deffler....that bigger than life uber- band, whatever...

I even left some tape hiss, cuz aint nothin says love like analog tape gettin an attitude. It's the official Stamp Of Authenticity, the empirically undeniable evidence that I have made no effort to make my sound fit in with anything or anyone, not because I'm arrogant, but because I totally suck at that. I am literally incapable of doing anything but whatever comes out of me.

Here is what came out of me this time around; a wave, a tsunami of the soul. It was either ride the wave or be smashed beneath it, because the one thing I was never gonna do was DODGE that wave. Now, here in this Heisenbergian Planck-walk of pain and joy, is the soundtrack of that ride.
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ALBUM CREDITS (People who had an influence on this music)

HEATHER FOSTER: She's surrounded by fire cuz she's so smokin, and is currently trying to find one last man to add to the group of men on this planet who are stronger than she is. When she finds him, it will bring the total to a nice, even 10.
TOUCH SENSITIVE RECORDS: and their wizardly Starship Captain, Mark Reid, and his roving Starfighter pilot, Gareth 'Cherrystones' Goddard.
GREG WHALEN: My MAYA brother.
JIMI HENDRIX. I'd be a tuba player named Opie without Jimi's inspiration and Zot Factor spookified ethereal guidance. Also I'd still have zits.
BANDCAMP: for being awesome and not shooting me up on thorazine for writing such a monkeytwazz of bullshit on here.
STEVEN ERICSSON-ZENITH: for a new conception of light based upon LFT, the theory we are pursuing and which Steven created.
JAMES PEARCE: This guy's life provides empirically sound proof that Philosophy Professors ROCK.
SHEREEN FONS: cuz you ain't lived till you have seen her towing an 18 wheeler with her bare hands while dominating the octagon, the pit, and the powerlifting stage.
PHIA WESTFALL: because ULTRABLUE!
STERLING STROBEL: Because even if I'm flying a F-22 Raptor and Sterling's flying the oldest, most beat up Flanker in Russia, his 360 degree 4 point snap roll into a Cobra will always be cleaner and prettier than mine.
AMANDA RHODES: because Amanda Rhodes. If you know Amanda, you just gon nod yo head n go, "Mmmm-Hmmm." If you don't know her...you prolly still happy with Scarlet Johansen as Black Widow.
STEPHANIE SINGLETON: The all time champeen of Tongue Hung.
LAUREN WILLIAMS- Simon says HULK DEUCE!
BRUCE LANIER: because my childhood BFF is my BFF forever.
JIM 'WINGMAN' WINGFIELD:: we were never in it for the money, we were in it for the percs. We have an IQ of 186 and there are 2 of us.
STEVE FOSTER-digital wizz, technical proliferation, and the guy who never rests until it gets done.
ANDREW MORA:. Because fish don't wear plaid men's shoes, but you're not crazy! THAT MEANS SOMETHING!.
TYLER MORA: The drums become you.So does Master Chief with an energy sword.
ASHLEE MORA: The best and most unique young Anime artist to appear in the last 20 years.
TAYLOR MORA; because you totally pwned me in HALO when you were like 6.
FRANK X MORA: Mick Jagger wants his strut and his personality back.
TRENT SMITH: Because DESTINY.
MARILYN ARMSTRONG MORA-COLEMAN; That shit had compli-hoopty-cations.
GREG BEASLEY: Because brutha, you caused all this