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Unevent E​.​P.

by Sitting Next to Brian

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1.
The Same Room 02:33
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2.
Unevent 04:04
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3.
Let the Sun In 03:18
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4.
Summer Stoops 02:49
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5.
Hundred Dollar Haircut 04:24
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6.
Grey Over Green 03:01
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7.
I'll Go On Until I See You Yawn 04:45
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about

The fifth release by Sitting Next to Brian is unique in that instead of his usual band and guest stars, Unevent E.P. features only Brian playing everything. Apparently he's one of those who needed the world to be frozen and silent for a while for him to be able to become reacquainted with his muse and start writing songs again--a valve that he consciously shut off when his daughter was born, fearing that he'd start writing songs about babies and fatherhood. But, as it will, life got real dark, first on a micro, then on that big ol' macro level, and that's when his muse awoke. Oh, cruel irony! For, now that he had new songs, everyone was locked down. So he learned how to make halfway decent recordings at home.

At first self conscious about how primitive it was sounding instrumentally (drums are great, of course..) , Brian paused and remembered: The Monkees Headquarters is sooo much better than the predictably polished shit the session players played on. Where's the adventure?
Other albums that shone their inspirational beacon-type lights (all several bulbs short from being considered actual beacons) were Syd Barrett's Madcap Laughs, Beach Boys Love You and Big Star's Third.

Unevent E.P. features five new songs which reflect what was on Brian's brain (and what Brian's brain was on) during early, existential, scary as fuck pandemic times; plus one old song ("Summer Stoops") and one super old song ("Unevent") which were chosen because they've never been recorded, yes, but also because some of those lyrics now took on either unexpectedly different meanings and/or greater significance. Ten, twenty years ago they were just words that wanted to be written but wouldn't say why. Sometimes the explanation takes decades.

credits

released April 9, 2022

All songs written, arranged, played, sung and recorded by Brian Marchese, 2021-2022.

Drums recorded on an iPhone 11 (Voice Memo app) positioned without much thought atop nearby objects at varying heights and distances inside Sonelab Rehearsal Room #9, Easthampton, MA between April 2021-Jan 2022

Everything else (guitar, bass, keys, vocals, percussion) recorded on a MacBook Pro, and through a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Interface, in my bedrooms past and present (Easthampton and Northampton, MA)
EXCEPT
Alto sax section (The Brian Four) recorded at Rub Wrongways by Henning Ohlenbusch because recording sax on my own was more of a hassle than expected.

Mixed by Henning Ohlenbusch at Rub Wrongways, Northampton, MA
Mastered by Mark Alan Miller at Sonelab, Easthampton, MA

Cover photo by Meredith Jacobson Marciano
Visual trickery by Matthew Medeiros

Thanks to Henning Ohlenbusch, Thane Thomsen, Jason Bourgeois and Ken Maiuri (the most recent iteration of SNTB) for encouraging the DIY direction. Still, I missed working with you guys a lot.

Special thanks to MB for unwittingly inspiring me to write my first complete song in too many years, thus getting this ball rolling in Spring of 2020; and for being my favorite pandemic pal, tempering our nightmare world with music and laughter.
"Now we talk about friends. Now we talk about songs..."

And last but never ever least, all the love to Audrey Ruth and all the treats to Huey Lewis (my cat).

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Sitting Next to Brian Northampton, Massachusetts

Sitting Next to Brian is drummer Brian Marchese's occasional outlet for his songwriting. He tries to write normal songs like everyone else but they come out like this.

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