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Before and After the Fact

by Shaun W.

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    * Matilda's Legacy, an Australian film starring American actor Oliver Hardy
    * Matilda, an American film based on the novel by British author Roald Dahl
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Book Worms (free) 01:02
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Secret Kept Safe (free) 03:05
Don't tell nobody That I was the one you loved Don't tell nobody That we used to kiss and hug Sometimes you were to busy sipping wine and smelling lines to find the time to see clearly and give a shit and while this was going on I smiled in a song I knew it was wrong
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WWWWaaahahahahhhhhssssssssshsaakkkkkkkkkkkkccccccwoooooooooaoaoaoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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I don't sleep on your oven So don't fuck in the kitchen...
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16 (free) 05:32
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::static noise:: fade into moog...
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Catch Me While I Sleep (free) 01:43
If you catch me sleeping please wake me
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Sit with me on a Sunday, someday I can see that you're tired Pass-way, highways, driveways, and byways You can't see that I'm tired...
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Acoustic Drums (free) 01:48
"Recording." "When?" "Now."
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Metro-Pkwy Love Song (free) 03:17
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Song for Mr. Frye (free) 03:31
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about

First full length album from the Matilda project. Also the first recording that I didn't use a 4 track and/or portable cassette tape recorder in order to record.

Album was recorded in the living room of a house in Warren Michigan shortly after I moved into the place.

And though the album is an LP, it is kind of like two EPs smooshed together. The first half of the record are all songs about a dysfunctional relationship I had held on to for about 5 years. The second half are mostly fairy tale-ish stories about being able to fall in love, have fun, be a better person, and make friends again now that I've been freed from the past relationship.

As a whole, the record is mostly a "fuck you" to the past, and a "hooray" to the future, which made me want to put all the songs together in an album rather than make two more EPs.

credits

released April 22, 2004

Shaun Wisniewski: Everything you hear on the album except for the hand claps on "The Fact/House on Widdow Creek" ... and I can't remember who did those.

Dan Patterson: Recorded everything with his fancy new computer programs, and probably was the one doing the clapping mentioned above.

Thanks to everyone else who was around at the time for being polite, patient, and kind while I was recording this.

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Shaun W. Detroit

Shaun W. (fka Matilda) is meant to be more of a musical documentation of life events rather than a marketable musical cash cow.

It is the mostly solo, ever changing, ongoing musical project of Shaun Wisniewski.
Songs are mostly folk-y and noisy. They also have flourishes of electronic beats, sound collage, and synth. For the most part the songs are poorly produced, and that’s fine.
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