Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-3-26 hour 3

0:00 Speaker 1: W m N H rips the normals. We're back from the.

0:06 Speaker 2: Break, wide awake, but my mind's in pieces, trying to slow down my stride.

0:47 Speaker 3: I can't believe all the thoughts that film my sides.

0:56 Speaker 3: Gotta feeling bout a chance escape raising deep in my mind. Baby, I don't want to nor more. It's wasted too much time, And it's.

1:12 Speaker 4: All the times I shake, And it's all the fears I fake, And it's all the towns I make it all right, And it's all the times I shake, And it's all the fears I fake, And it's all the towns.

1:40 Speaker 5: I make it.

1:41 Speaker 6: All the terms of shaking, the fierce of faking.

2:13 Speaker 1: The jumps, I make it.

2:20 Speaker 4: Quite awake. But I'm trying to eat silence. I can't confide.

2:28 Speaker 4: I can't believe when my thoughts a twisted right.

2:37 Speaker 1: Well frozen. No, I'm caught inside. It can't see past the lights. Maybe I don't want to no more.

2:49 Speaker 4: It's wasted too much time, And it's all the times I shake, and it's all ears I think.

3:01 Speaker 1: It's all the towns.

3:04 Speaker 4: I make it all right, And it's all the times I shake get it's all the fierce I think And It's all the touchside, make its all.

3:46 Speaker 7: Times. I shake.

3:50 Speaker 1: The fierce, I fake the toutside, make it all.

4:03 Speaker 8: That is all the times. Temple Mountain who is here with us in studio. We have Eric with from Temple Mountain with us in studio. Here we have entered our number three New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

4:31 Speaker 8: It's our first show of the new year. Happy New Year, everybody. January third, twenty twenty six. Jenny is here, of course at the news tablet for I really love that song. I really I do too. Yes, Yes, we have Eric, Eric Eric Hannings now Eric Hanning. I was I was, I was saying off air when you got here. I said, I finally learned how to say your your last name, and then you changed it.

4:56 Speaker 9: Fat a last name in Palamini many PALOMENI you didn't get it.

5:00 Speaker 8: It's all right, well never.

5:02 Speaker 9: Mind, everyone says, mean it should be Meani. Oh yeah, yeah.

5:05 Speaker 8: Oh okay, all right, well never mind.

5:08 Speaker 9: Then I feel bad I corrected you on air.

5:10 Speaker 8: That's okay. I mean I kind of set myself up for that.

5:17 Speaker 9: Ah you know what that's That's all that means is I took the right name.

5:21 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean.

5:22 Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, I remember you saying before on the show, because I think the last time you were on you you were not wedded yet. No, you were engaged, yeh, but but you would talked about that, how you were going to take her last name, which is unusual in our in our culture. But you you didn't really like your name.

5:39 Speaker 9: No, and I liked I know how much she liked her name. Yeah, and uh oh it just felt right. Yeah, I felt right. And technically I'm still I'm not I'm techly handings now, but I'm technically in Polmonte still, I have my We were just on our honeymoon and I didn't want to have to deal with changing my name and then the passport stuff.

5:58 Speaker 8: Oh yeah yeah.

6:00 Speaker 9: So we ended up going I have my appointment with the Social Security this Monday. Okay, that's the first step. Okay, yeah, yeah.

6:09 Speaker 8: Is that a is it a hassle? It must be.

6:12 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well when you get married, it's not.

6:18 Speaker 9: So it's on my document. It's on my marriage certificate. So at least I have that as proof for change. Okay, but then I have to do Social Security, and then I have to do my driver's license, and then from what I've understood, I have to do my bank accounts. And that's actually where it's like the most pain in the.

6:32 Speaker 8: Butt, is it.

6:33 Speaker 2: Yeah?

6:34 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, and now you have to prove so much more.

6:39 Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a little harder.

6:41 Speaker 9: But you know it's worth it.

6:42 Speaker 5: Yeah.

6:42 Speaker 8: Well there you go.

6:43 Speaker 7: Well I don't blame you.

6:44 Speaker 8: I don't blame you.

6:45 Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you.

6:49 Speaker 8: So we should talk about so the new EP dress sharp. Yeah this this is really new, right, this just came out, came out on New Year's Eve. Oh so this this is as new as a guest.

6:58 Speaker 9: Oh yeah it was, you know, only twenty five was literally the best year of my life. Yeah, no, I normally don't say that, but it was just I mean, I saw both Paul Simon and Paul McCartney in one year, Like, yeah, you can't really get much better than that. Yeah, but so I just wanted to end the year on a high note. And this is an album I was working with with a producer. His name's Andrew Morrissey, OK, and I've it was something that I always wanted to try and go out of my comfort zone, especially compared to my last album, which was much more of a low fi kind of organic produced album.

7:32 Speaker 9: This is kind of the exact opposite where it's like, how how much layer can we add to it? How much gloss can we put on the song? I'm really proud of it, to be honest with you.

7:43 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, no, I love that song all the times. It's kind of you know, it's pop, but it's like it's like alternative pop. It's like you know, yeah, it's it's it's interesting. It's a surprise, first of all because when I when I played it the first time, I was like, oh, this is different for him. But also this is really interesting. The production is really interesting, and I did want to ask you about that especially. I love I love what happens when the guitar comes in at the end the solo.

8:11 Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, I had you know. There was a while where I was purchasing from Manchester Music Mill sponsor and not sponsored. I was really getting like a bunch of used here. And I had this less Paul with Demarcio pickups that I don't have anymore. And what's funny is the guitar actually had a malfunction on it, like there was some circuit or ground that wasn't attached to it, right, Yeah, So it just had this weird trebly in and out kind of sound, and I just I stacked it with some uh, I forget what overdrive I used, but I just I had this marshal and overdrive and we cranked it up in the studio.

8:46 Speaker 9: Yeah, and I just kind of played a guitar solo over and that's what you hear. That's why that huge feedbacks.

8:51 Speaker 8: At the end.

8:52 Speaker 9: It was so it was just so loud. The other thing I'll say about that song is it was actually I wrote it because I I have an obsession with like Eurodrans tracks from the early two thousands really, yeah, like a Scatta's every time we touch and stuff like that, and I was like, I want to write a song like that on the acoustic guitar. And that's what we were, you know, I don't know if we necessarily got there yeah, but that was what your initial inspiration was.

9:18 Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, is that is that the case with all these on the EP? You you write them on the on the guitar first.

9:24 Speaker 9: Sure they're all they're all on guitar first. Okay, I can't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it otherwise. So the way that worked was I would send him Andrew the songs and then he would kind of layer it with production. Then I would go in one day and we would do vocal layers together and create all these kind of stacks on them.

9:41 Speaker 8: Okay.

9:42 Speaker 9: So it was a real collaboration, and uh, it was a It's a beautiful rapport and relationship that I'm so grateful to have. So shout out to Andrew. He's an amazing man.

9:51 Speaker 8: Yeah. No, he did did a great job. Now how did you connect with him? As far as I'm producing the EP?

9:56 Speaker 7: Uh?

9:56 Speaker 9: I think I posted on Facebook saying like I'm looking for and then Dan Fallon. I don't know if you know that name. Great man. He he's Andrews Dan drummer. Andrew's a multi instrumentalist, the guy. Okay, I can play drums like. He's so talented that everything he does and I sent him a song, the first song that we recorded, which is called the Crowd, and I wanted like a no Such Thing by John Mayer kind of song, and it in my opinion.

10:24 Speaker 8: And yeah, yeah, Dan Fallon he's been oh run like thieves yeaheah. They were on the show. Yeah, and Jenny and I went to see them live too. Yeah, really really good?

10:33 Speaker 9: Was that at the BNH stage? Yes, yeah, I missed that show unfortunately, but I really I'm a huge fan of Dan.

10:39 Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, all very talented. Yeah, yeah absolutely. And then why why an EP? Because Schema was your previous release was a full album, so why now? Why the choice to do an EP this time? I'm always curious about because there's so many different ways to approach it now.

10:54 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's just cost Yeah. In fact, if I've the reason why I released it an EP and not as individual singles, it is because I was so burnt out from this year that I kind of needed to. I've been taking a break, Like I came on here as kind of like it was a spontaneous women. I was like, I can't not go it's quit. Like if the timing's just right, I had an EP release let's do this.

11:16 Speaker 10: Yeah.

11:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, but the truth is is like I haven't been really very musically pushed okay lately. Yeah, And so I just wanted to release it because I knew if I didn't release it, then it would always be out there and there's like geist then I would be thinking about all the time. So yeah, decided to push it out there. And uh, but you know, the record songs with higher production means there's also a higher cost when it comes to mastering and mixing. And I don't know, like albums aren't are kind of a thing of the past, aren't they.

11:48 Speaker 9: You know, I don't know to a third degree.

11:51 Speaker 8: It depends. I mean, it's all perspective sometimes because you know, a lot of our guests a lot of them do some of them, some of them just you know, there's a sort of it's different from how I was growing up, where you know, like an album would be coming out for single goes to radio six eight weeks, and then the album comes out and if it all goes well, you might get a second single, a third single, Whereas now what a lot of artists are doing is, you know, they call it the waterfall effect. They're releasing a series of singles that eventually become an album.

12:20 Speaker 8: Yeah, it was just kind of the inversion of that. But but I don't know. Some of the guests we have, they really feel like like it has to be an album because that's what they grew up with or that's what.

12:31 Speaker 9: It's the art.

12:32 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well.

12:33 Speaker 9: And also it's important to mention, like I think all lot of artists, including myself who have done it, we don't do the waterfall effects because that's how we want to release music. We do it because we live in a time of algorithmic pace production and apps, and that's how you can get your voice out there. And you know, when you see more than a thousand likes on your song, you get a dopamine high. Of course, of course, yeah, that's why we do it.

13:04 Speaker 8: Well, I feel like that that's probably one of the hardest things about if you're if you're someone who writes a lot of music, or if you or if you write and record music and then you want to you want to share it with the world as soon as possible, right, that's there has to be you know, there's a certain discipline when you're a when you're a musician where you have to nobody ever talks about this part. But for some reason, I've been thinking about this lately a lot where you you have to you know, you create something and and if you're proud of it, you want to share it with everybody, but you can't.

13:38 Speaker 8: You have to wait, you have to be you have to be strategic about it. I mean you don't have to be. I mean you can. You can just put whatever is you know, you can do it that way, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if you want to get the most out of it, it's like you because not only do you want people to hear it, but you want as many people as possible to hear it. You want to share it with as many people as possible, which means you do have to be strategic about it. And there is a disciplan that comes with that, you know.

14:02 Speaker 9: Yeah, And there's also an ego that comes with that, isn't there? Yeah, Because you know where is the Catharsis. It's the Catharsis in the making of the music, or is the Catharsis in the population of ears?

14:16 Speaker 8: You know, right? Right?

14:17 Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely think about that. I mean, I've been kind of transitioning. I'm almost done with grad school. So I've been transitioning into.

14:26 Speaker 8: My job of oh therapist, congratulations.

14:29 Speaker 9: And so I think about this stuff a lot now, Like, yeah, one of the reasons why I slowed down was because I had to ask myself, like, how good, how healthy is this for me to like do like three shows a week and like, yes, the crowds are so happy to giving you all this positive feedback, but it's like it's hard to explain, but there there's a structural balance that could be a little bit tricky with that, you know, especially with someone like myself who can have an ego and I mean we all do and maybe has an awareness of it and wants to keep it in check, right.

15:03 Speaker 8: Right, Yeah? Absolutely? Are you Have you been surprised at all about the end result of this, because this is a this is a departure for you the ep like going into these songs, any of these songs. Did you at the end of it, did you go, Wow, that turned out different than I I mean, I assume you were happy with how they all turned out or you wouldn't put them out, But but were you surprised at at what they turned out to be?

15:30 Speaker 9: No, I'm really proud because I think I always wanted to do music like this, like again, like kind of poppy, kind of not overproduced but very produced. Yeah, and I feel like that I always had this insecurity of I can't do this, I'm really Yeah. So I think that doing it was a real again cathartic moment, allowing myself to say, you know, you can do whatever voice you want to have in this world. Yeah, and you can talk about whatever you want. Yeah, and you could have opinions and think about these things.

16:07 Speaker 9: Yeah. I think I went into it knowing this is the sound I wanted to have, which was like a John Mayer meets Dave Matthews meets like kind of like in sync kind of thing. And you know it, I like it And if people don't like it, not that I have been getting really great positive response, yeah, but it's like I just don't care anymore.

16:29 Speaker 8: Yeah. Well that's the best way to approach it, right.

16:31 Speaker 9: I Mean it's nice though, because when you play a lot of gigs you don't feel that way. Sometimes you are basing your life on like, oh, I hope the audience likes me.

16:40 Speaker 8: Well, there is that idea too. I've heard Billy Joel say this, and I think I've heard Trent Reznor say this too in different ways, but the idea that when you're creating the music in the studio, you got to create it for yourself. You can't do it to please anybody else. You have to make music that you're passionate about. But then when you go to play live, that that's then you got to be thinking about the the other way. You gotta be thinking about what's going to make the audience happy.

17:03 Speaker 9: Yeah, and I agree with that. I think the difference between myself and those artist is when the reason why they feel that way is because people pay like three hundred dollars a ticket, right where when I'm at a bar, I mean there, I'm getting paid just to be there. So it's it's complicated my point.

17:19 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, absolutely absolutely. But but so you always wanted to do an EP like this or or something like this.

17:26 Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, I always wanted to do it like an early two thousands pop record, No kidding, Yeah, still do. I mean I'm actually going back into the studio next month, and oh wow, yeah I want it. Uh. It's funny as I get older because and I'm not like an amazing guitar player by any means, but like I have my finesse, yeah, yeah, And I find that my writing becomes less focused on that as I get older, Like I'm much more interested in, like, how can I use the Cowboy chords in a way that's kind of new and refreshing but still like very relaxing.

18:01 Speaker 9: Yeah, to do it for me?

18:02 Speaker 8: Yeah, what's interesting about to your earlier work, you know, because we've well you've played live in Studio two, but we've also played studio tracks from Schema and and at that time you were going for that kind of lo fi, which is not easy to pull off necessarily because when you know, when we say lo fi, you know, it doesn't just mean you know, because someone who hasn't heard it might think, oh, so, what is it just demos that don't sound that great or whatever, But no, there's an art to getting that sound too, to actually doing it right.

18:35 Speaker 8: And I always thought that was you know, ambitious, you know, on your part to do that and and and the result was great, you know.

18:46 Speaker 9: You know, I always liked like artists like Elliott Smith, who, like, you know, his first three albums are very low fi, but then he did Figure eight and he did XO and those are highly produced records. Yeah, you know, I didn't want to do the same thing twice. Yeah, And I actually tried doing that. I went to a studio and I recorded. I tried to do another schema, and it just felt it. It's not that I felt ingenuine. It just felt very repetition.

19:11 Speaker 8: Really.

19:12 Speaker 9: Yeah, like I felt like, oh, I'm here before one of the things that there was a song that came out of that, which is called Stacy's Song that's on Spotify and that I'm I love that song. But yeah, I don't know. I it's like, you know, once you now that I've tasted production, it's hard to go back from it, right right, it'd be hard for me to make a lo fi album now now that I know what my voice sounds like with you know, orchestration.

19:36 Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, well we should play another track from this of course, should we play, well, we could play the next one in the EPU the crowd.

19:44 Speaker 9: Uh do you want to have about there's a song I did. You've actually had her on the show. Her name's cat Ivy.

19:49 Speaker 5: Yeah.

19:50 Speaker 9: We did a song to get her on the EP It's called No collect Calls.

19:54 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, oh oh yeah. She was great. Yeah, that was that was a while ago? What was maybe a year ago? She was? Yeah, she was fantastic. So I didn't realize that was her on this track with you. Oh very cool. Yeah, let's give this a spin. Excellent. So this is kat Ivy? Is she the only sort of a guest artist on the EP? Yeah?

20:12 Speaker 6: Uh?

20:13 Speaker 9: On my song Prozac, I have a guitar solo that was done by the Whole Loafs band, a band called the Whole Loaf their guitar player Kyle on the show. Yeah, yeah, Kyle the guitar player crosskey.

20:25 Speaker 5: Uh.

20:25 Speaker 9: He played the guitar solo on pros That. Oh very cool.

20:27 Speaker 8: We'll have to spend that one later too, but great. So this is uh, this is Temple Mountain with kat Ivy. On this track from the new EP, Dress Sharp, This is called No collect Call.

21:00 Speaker 11: I have a dream to make again, but this feeling I can't shake today. With every step I make, there's always something new in.

21:14 Speaker 9: My way.

21:19 Speaker 1: With the future to home.

21:21 Speaker 12: Nigga's words are nonstin what if I was to let it go, then is truly learning?

21:32 Speaker 1: Like, Well, I guess I'll find my.

21:42 Speaker 7: Way on my own.

21:49 Speaker 13: I'll find the way.

21:57 Speaker 1: All your words day of it's amptually all pray.

22:07 Speaker 7: With the slight f.

22:33 Speaker 12: Have a mother monacle, but my mother's a sent This one is your host to mo Oh you.

22:45 Speaker 7: Want to do it straight?

22:51 Speaker 13: I'm not try try trucks.

23:00 Speaker 14: And I try to try to shout.

23:05 Speaker 6: As he stops, well, I guess, so fine.

23:13 Speaker 15: Come away.

23:20 Speaker 7: On my own, No fine.

23:23 Speaker 15: Go away all your ways, and they tempted to pay.

23:39 Speaker 1: When the snag? When will that guess?

24:02 Speaker 7: Oh? Fight will that guess? Oh fight? Oh way?

24:18 Speaker 14: Will that ess?

24:20 Speaker 7: Oh fine? Uh? Will that ess?

24:30 Speaker 1: Oh fine?

24:32 Speaker 15: The way?

24:39 Speaker 14: Will I guess some fine way?

24:48 Speaker 7: Oh?

24:48 Speaker 5: No, no.

24:50 Speaker 7: Go away? Oh?

24:58 Speaker 5: No words?

25:18 Speaker 7: What that guess?

25:21 Speaker 6: Find why that guess? Ah?

25:31 Speaker 7: Find my way?

25:36 Speaker 8: Oh that is really nice?

25:39 Speaker 9: Thank you?

25:39 Speaker 8: Really nice. Temple Mountain with cat Ivy on that one. Yeah, how did that come about? You're you're collaborating with her on that song?

25:47 Speaker 9: We've been We just hit it off right away.

25:50 Speaker 8: Yeah.

25:51 Speaker 9: We Where did we first meet? I have no memory of how we first met. I'm sure she does. But we did a show together there in Wilton, New Hampshire, at place called the Listening Room with Darling Hill. Yes, yes, and we just we've started. I was like I loved her voice to me, it's original and really kind of complimentary towards my own kind of style. And I asked if she would do and she said of course, and she was. She helped write it with me. We did some like webcam sessions together to kind of discuss certain arrangements, and she came to the she came to Andrew's place, and we really just banged it out and lyrically.

26:36 Speaker 9: It had to be about something that we both kind of

26:41 Speaker 9: agree with, and the songs kind of about our dislike for certain things in the music business.

26:47 Speaker 8: So interesting, yeah, yeah, So.

26:52 Speaker 9: The I'm not I won't explain it on there, but all I'll say is the title of the song is a bit of a hidden message.

26:58 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, when you talk about like things that that you both don't like in the music business, like what do you mean?

27:04 Speaker 5: Like what? Uh?

27:05 Speaker 9: I think both of us were really frustrated with the fact that, you know, as a musician, especially in a local town, I want to if I'm booking a show with someone, I want to have a relationship with the venue, and unfortunately you can't do that with a lot of places around here because they work with other people. Right, So it's like there's a middleman, and then you're giving this middleman some money and for what why am I giving you money? I don't understand that it was about that and things that I've done, you know, so like it was just it was a song about frustration.

27:42 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, that makes sense. By the way, I just as you were talking to it just occurred to me because we had had kat Ivy on the show. I think we met her through you, right or did we mean or something I like to get I like to send people your way because does she kind of live out your way too? Isn't she from that?

27:58 Speaker 9: She lives actually close to here Lounderry?

28:01 Speaker 8: Oh okay, oh yeah, very okay, Yeah, but I think we met her through you. Yeahah so that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, No that that came out great, that's that's yeah, that's a that's a wonderful song. Thank you, absolutely absolutely. Now, So what's like, what does this next year look like for you as far as playing shows? Are you're gonna be uh, you're gonna be doing a lot of shows or isn't that yeah, because you mentioned you were a little burnt out this past year.

28:29 Speaker 9: Yeah, I did like one hundred and sixty shows last year. Yeah, like two three hours shows. Wow, I did there. There was one day where I had four shows in a row, and I think most of them are three hours long.

28:39 Speaker 8: Wait for four shows in one day or yeah, four shows and four shows in one day.

28:44 Speaker 9: Yeah, like two farmers' markets in the morning and then two shows in the afternoon. Good lord.

28:48 Speaker 8: Yeah it must have been in the summertime, right, it was summer time.

28:51 Speaker 2: Yeah.

28:51 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the only time that would happen.

28:52 Speaker 7: Yeah.

28:53 Speaker 5: Yeah.

28:53 Speaker 9: Wow, it's hard. You know, the music industry, the music, but the scene is shane even I've only been doing it for two years and I'm noticing differences. And there's a huge saturation of artists at the moment, which is a really beautiful thing, like anyone can do this, but it just means that you have to really hustle to get gigs. Oh yeah, I have a job at the moment. I'm an intern for a therapy agency, and it's like, when I get home, there's other things in my life that I want to make sure that I'm doing, which is spend time with family and my cats and make sure I'm taking better care of my health, which I've started doing about two months ago, So I don't know yet.

29:37 Speaker 9: I think I am limiting myself to gigs. I have gigs. I have a show tonight, for example.

29:43 Speaker 8: But where you playing tonight? We should plug that.

29:46 Speaker 9: At the Whiskey Tavern in Laconia.

29:48 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, excellent.

29:50 Speaker 9: But I'm kind of willing to diminish playing live. I'm going to go into the studio and record some songs and focus on that for a little bit and and see where that takes me.

30:02 Speaker 5: Yeah.

30:02 Speaker 9: I've done almost everything I wanted to do musically in this state, and I'm very proud of that. Yeah, and so I don't mind taking a bit of a break.

30:10 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The songs that are on the CP, will you be? I mean, how does the what's the process of sort of translating those two Like if it says you and a guitar live, is that easy to.

30:26 Speaker 9: I think so? Yeah, because they were written originally, Like you've seen my guitar playing. I'm not someone that just like drums the chord. So for example, that song has a lot of two hands happing in it. Yeah, so I do that live, and the arrangement is based on the guitar riffs first and foremost, so you're you know, because the foundation is already there, it's kind of easy to emulate it.

30:53 Speaker 8: Yeah, so.

30:55 Speaker 9: Now to a certain degree. So for example, I think my favorite song on the album is a song called Prozac. And if you listen to the song, it has a bit of a I don't know if Caribbean is the right word, but like it reminds me of like Little Mermaid under the Sea. Yeah, it has that kind of sound to it. When you play it live, it sounds more like John Mayer's Neon. Okay, but I think they translate still like you wouldn't You wouldn't be like, oh, that's a totally different song. Okay, it's still the same song because is still there?

31:22 Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, should we? Maybe we should play that one next? You want to want to give that one a spence? Sure, if you're just joining us, Temple Mountain is here, Eric from Temple Mountain. We should clarify too for a new You've been on the show a bunch now. But for but for people who don't know, why are you called Temple Mountain?

31:37 Speaker 1: Uh?

31:38 Speaker 9: Because I say, but at the time, I was a case manager and I just don't you know, you don't want you want to be able to separate your life a little bit. Yeah, so having and you know, I grew up watching a lot of Power Rangers, so I always have been into like alter egos.

31:53 Speaker 8: I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, well, very good, very good. All right. So this is from the new ep Dress Sharp. This is this Temple Mountain in this track is called Prozac.

32:21 Speaker 7: This song has.

32:23 Speaker 1: Lost its way in the words.

32:30 Speaker 4: Shouting round, run but I can't be here? Did I fall for those magic curves? Did not get all that?

32:44 Speaker 9: Artist?

32:46 Speaker 14: Jeous sure plants to all around my mind.

33:01 Speaker 5: Said?

33:01 Speaker 1: The voices were so loud.

33:06 Speaker 7: Now I don't sill dear my eyes.

33:10 Speaker 1: I don't want to any help.

33:14 Speaker 14: Choices cute made.

33:18 Speaker 13: Now all that you say, I'm not oh okay. No, I'm not oh okay. I'm not oh okay, fat.

33:39 Speaker 1: You without you, I'm not okay.

33:52 Speaker 14: I think your motion in words.

33:57 Speaker 3: Simultaneously outside, separated from my body.

34:06 Speaker 7: I'm struggling to rise.

34:09 Speaker 13: The choices you.

34:14 Speaker 1: Now allah do you say?

34:20 Speaker 7: I am not Jay?

34:25 Speaker 6: I not.

34:27 Speaker 1: Ja, I am not old JA, catch.

34:36 Speaker 9: Cat you.

34:37 Speaker 14: I'm not okay.

34:51 Speaker 7: Later okay.

35:34 Speaker 8: That is Brozac. That is from the new EP from Temple Mountain called a dress sharp and very very catchy. I like that a lot, Thank you. So what's the genesis of the uh? Why is it called dress sharp?

35:47 Speaker 7: Uh?

35:47 Speaker 9: It's asked. So there's a line in the crowd that's on the crowd that says press sharp. But that's not why I called it that. I asked a friend of mine to do the album. Artworker names Casey Arnold. She's an incredible local artist. Uh strong shout out to her. I we met at a gig. Actually she did the She did the audio for me at a place called Madhouse Coffee mad River Coffee House in Campton, New Hampshire, and her art was on the walls and I was like, I'm in love with this. So she did the art for another song of mine called Bend and Uh, which isn't on Spotify anymore.

36:22 Speaker 9: But uh, when this album came out, I knew she was who I wanted to do, and I told her just listen to the album and paint whatever you feel. And she painted this with the album the uh the image that you see, and I just it was like, oh, drush sharp, okay, okay.

36:37 Speaker 8: Very good, very good. Oh you sound something interesting just now too, you said, so you had you had a song called Bend that's not on Spotify anymore, did you remove it?

36:44 Speaker 5: Yeah?

36:45 Speaker 9: I removed that song, a song called Grateful, and a song called Lonely because I just couldn't stand the production on it.

36:51 Speaker 8: Really it was.

36:52 Speaker 9: It was when I in between Schema and this album, I went into a different studio to record some stuff. Yeah, and I didn't know what I was doing, okay, but it was too unproduced. So like it was cool, they're great songs, but like they were double voiced and the audios and it was pitchy and it just didn't feel like I was representing myself.

37:13 Speaker 8: Well okay, yeah, what was it? Was it a situation where like the engineer there didn't h wasn't helpful in capturing your sound or.

37:24 Speaker 9: Yeah, I think he understood that I liked low five. He's a great engineer. So it's like I don't want to diminish his thing.

37:33 Speaker 8: But that's why, that's why I'm not asking you who it is. I know you don't want to throw anybody under the bus.

37:37 Speaker 9: Now I could say what his name, rhyme's with Now,

37:44 Speaker 9: I just say it just didn't feel right, and I think, uh, I think I knew I wanted to head into the direction of address sharp, which is why I entered the studio. Yeah, and instead I just it was like I was taking a step back instead of going forward. Okay, it's funny because those songs actually performed really well on Spotify. Oh, interesting because I did the waterfall effect on them and my views get my numbers went up. I just, you know, if you're not proud of something you shouldn't. I didn't want to do keep it there.

38:11 Speaker 8: Yeah, was that a hard decision?

38:13 Speaker 9: No, No, it was really really Yeah, I've been I knew I was going to do it for a while.

38:18 Speaker 8: Okay.

38:18 Speaker 9: And it's funny because and I forget how to play a lot of my songs sometimes. Yeah, it's really unhealthy. But uh, I totally forgot how to play Ben's. And there's another song called Lonely which I actually really like that song, but I can't play. Every time I try to pick up the guitar, I'm like, what are these chords?

38:34 Speaker 8: Interesting?

38:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, because I try, I don't normally use like theory or anything like that. Yea, like use my ear and try to find these patterns and motifs, and eventually, like then I have to learn the song again, and it's like I can't figure, I can't do it.

38:47 Speaker 8: No kidding.

38:48 Speaker 9: That's interesting all the time, does it really?

38:50 Speaker 8: Yeah?

38:51 Speaker 9: Yeah, I can only play like four songs on Schema still no Kenning.

38:55 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's interesting.

38:56 Speaker 9: By the way, this isn't something I recommend other people to do. Learn your music, right right? Yeah? But you know I can play wonder Wall like it's no tomorrow. So it's I don't know, Maybe it's a maybe it's an insecurity thing towards my own music where I purposely forget it.

39:10 Speaker 8: Yeah, like I wonder if subconsciously or maybe you just get bored with the songs and so your brain, the part of your brain kind of says, eh, we're done with this one.

39:18 Speaker 9: I feel like that's what Alfred Adler, a psychotherapist, would say.

39:21 Speaker 8: Yeah, well, there you go, there you go. There's a reason for everything. Yeah, do you have any you plan to do any music videos for these or.

39:30 Speaker 9: I have an idea for prozac du Yeah, but just I don't know if I will. I have an idea of me like being in a relationship with someone that's in like a pill bottle costume.

39:41 Speaker 8: Oh, that's a cool idea.

39:42 Speaker 9: And then like at the end it would be me like dancing with a bunch of pill bottles. But that could maybe that could sound a little what you might call it, maybe that would provide the wrong image of what I'm trying to get with the song, because the song's about the benefits of how it's helped changed my life. Yeah yeah, but you know again it's I would do it. I have people that I could use that I I would do, but I don't know if I'm interested. Yeah, yeah, Like what's the point of doing the music video just from I guess maybe for my own catharsis but yeah, yeah, And I feel like I sound like it to be downer at the moment, but you know, not like people should do music videos.

40:23 Speaker 9: But I just if I would do it if I felt.

40:25 Speaker 8: The need to, right right, Yeah at the moment. I do like your idea, though, I think that's.

40:30 Speaker 9: I've looked up on Amazon for pill bottle costumes and I haven't found the one that like in my he you know, the CVS pill bottle. Yeah, it requires like instructions to open. Yeah that's the bottle, and I can't find one. I found one, but it was it's like a cannabis costume. So it shows like, uh shows buds in the I don't know if I'm not to sit on the radio. Yeah, it shows like buds in the in the bottle and it's like, no, that's not that's not what I'm right, right, So I have to be creative and yeah no, not yet maybe someday.

41:04 Speaker 8: But you can't order a pill bottle, uh costume? Interesting? Yeah, yeah, I guess you can get just about anything on animals.

41:11 Speaker 9: You type in anything on Amazon, well, yeah.

41:16 Speaker 8: Just about Yeah. So you did mention. So so you've got new music that you're going to be working on as far as uh.

41:22 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's very this is a very recent thing, like two days ago when when the album I was burnt out until I released this album, like yeah, And I mean, like you ask anyone that was that saw me there at gigs and stuff like that. They could tell like, uh, kat Ivy, Actually we had a show, our last show was together at a place called the Francistown Coffee House yea in Francis Down, New Hampshire. And she went up to me, She's like are you are you okay? I just didn't want to be there. I really wanted to be home, you know.

41:51 Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah, I just I couldn't take it anymore. And uh when I released this album and I could. I haven't been able to write a song since May, let's say, which for me, that's a long time. Yeah, and uh, two days ago something happened.

42:07 Speaker 8: Yeah.

42:07 Speaker 9: I've written a few songs in the past couple of days, and one of them I really like, and I reached out to Andrew and I showed it to him, and we're going.

42:14 Speaker 5: To do it.

42:15 Speaker 8: Excellent, I'm excited. Excellent, you're gonna do it as a single or.

42:18 Speaker 9: I think I think I'm gonna do. I think I'll record two or three songs this year and I'll release them individually, and I don't know if I'll promote them very much. I think it's just not about that anymore. I just wanna you know, I say that now and then you're gonna see me. I'll do an interview in like a few months, and I'm like working harder than ever.

42:37 Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, I think all I think musicians go through this, of course, yeah, oh absolutely.

42:42 Speaker 9: In fact, you know, there are people and I mean this is the coup, like Katie Dobbs is a great example where I don't think she gets like she's just she's a power horse, keeps going and going and going. Yeah, so inspiring, and I'm I can't do that really, Yeah, I mean I did, and then I need a you need a few months off sometime.

43:00 Speaker 8: Yeah, well you also have a career. Yeah, you know, so it's it's hard.

43:05 Speaker 9: I appreciate that empathy. Yeah, I to hear that it's hard.

43:08 Speaker 8: It's hard to do like everything that you want to do, you know.

43:11 Speaker 7: Yeah.

43:12 Speaker 9: All at once I was I was, I know, like I'm looking at the time, but I was really curious about how you got this job.

43:18 Speaker 8: Well, so this show actually started as a podcast in twenty eleven, although I was doing podcasts way but I'm like an og podcaster. But I started out doing podcasts and then but I had a I used to do. Actually I did multiple television shows at because you know this is owned by Manchester Public Television, so on the channel twenty three I did shows and but then I had an opportunity I was invited to uh bring my podcast to WM and H And it was April of twenty seventeen, so coming up on nine years.

43:52 Speaker 9: So is in terms of like careers in this field, Is this been the one that you have the most longevity with? Is this show?

43:59 Speaker 8: No, because I've been doing I've been doing uh like I'm a hypnotherapist, as you know, I've great, I've been doing that for more than twenty years.

44:06 Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm I'm so upset we didn't discuss that. Now, I'm like, I have so many questions. Yeah, yeah, so funny. Yeah yeah, has that been good?

44:16 Speaker 8: Good? Well, you know it's January, it's you know, New Year's resolution time.

44:20 Speaker 3: So uh.

44:22 Speaker 9: So you don't have like necessarily do you have consistent clients?

44:25 Speaker 8: Hell?

44:25 Speaker 9: Or is it always uh, new people?

44:28 Speaker 8: There's always new people because the thing about hypnotherapy is if I'm doing a really good job one and done, they don't come back. Yeah, they don't need to fascinate.

44:35 Speaker 9: Yeah, the opposite with I know, I know exactly exactly if you do one and done, Yeah, you got a gift if you want to know, if you.

44:46 Speaker 8: If you want to help someone with a phobia, you have to take a while, you take your time with it.

44:51 Speaker 9: Or well, it depends on what it depends on what you define as helping a phobia. Well true, yeah, yeah, I I kind of also am a part of accepting like the idea of can you accept your fear before moving on to the far right right? Yeah, that's so interesting.

45:04 Speaker 8: Yeah, well, we are approaching the top of the hour, so I want to make sure because we go there's one more track on the EP. I want to make sure we play. Where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing.

45:18 Speaker 9: As of yesterday? I just I just renewed my website. It turns out on my website I forgot to renew it. Oh so I just renewed, so Temple Mountain Music dot com. Okay, or you can just you know, find if you type in temble Mounts of Music, you'll find me reach out. I'm friendly and uh you know, get me a gig quote Jocko Pistorius.

45:38 Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, and you don't you uh oh, you have something tonight too? We should for our live listen. Yes, we should plug that again.

45:43 Speaker 9: We're playing at the Whiskey Tavern in Laconia. Yeah, and then actually I'll also promote I'm doing the Singer in the Rounds at Hermit Woods Winery in Meredith, New Hampshire, which is hosted by Katie Dobbins.

45:56 Speaker 7: Oh very nice.

45:57 Speaker 9: I'm doing that on the twenty ninth.

45:59 Speaker 8: Oh excellent, yeah, excellent.

46:00 Speaker 9: It was my two. I'm doing a couple more gigs throughout this month, but those are the two ones that I guess I'll push right now.

46:07 Speaker 8: And you'll be playing songs from the new EP at those.

46:09 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, very good, Yeah, very good. You're gonna play all four of them. Maybe I have to relearn the crowd?

46:14 Speaker 8: Oh gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, very good, very good. So in a moment, we will play what's the one we didn't play at the crowd, the crowd, We'll play that one in a moment. Jenny too. We should remind people because you've been you've been busy as always. Oh well, let me get that mic on there. Sorry, well you had gotten up at one point I was muted. I was muted at when you get up course, yes.

46:37 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, always getting into some good trouble. You can keep tabs on me at Gencoffee dot com.

46:42 Speaker 8: J E N N C O F f ELI dot com. Yes, very good, And if you want to keep up with everything I'm doing, my website is Matt Connorton dot com. Especially if you'd like to book a hypnotherapy session, you can do that right through the website Matt Connorton dot com. You just have to figure out how to spell connorton. Some people struggle with it. But now if you're a listener show you know anyway. So this has been wonderful. Thank you so much, Eric, Thank you guys. What should we know about this song before we play it to close us out?

47:09 Speaker 9: This song was about well, so this is the song the first song that I wrote for the album. Oh, it's inspired by no Such Thing, which is a song from John Mayer off his album Room for Squares. And I was really writing about my appreciation for the crowds that the gigs I was doing. Oh, very good, very.

47:28 Speaker 8: Good, all right, excellent, I love it, all right, Thank you again. Thank you to everybody who joined us today, of course, and if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at WM and Hradio dot orget at my website Matt Connorton dot com. And happy to do hear everybody, and we will close out today's show with this. This is the crowd from Temple Mountain and his new EP dress sharp.

48:00 Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

48:06 Speaker 10: I'll behave and try to shut watch my life o pot now my way keeps to find out cool world.

48:23 Speaker 7: I have horns and my nieves. That is warm. Lets it be now, I wait to find out cool. I s have so weird joy.

48:53 Speaker 5: I have you all.

48:58 Speaker 10: Go to work at jo.

49:03 Speaker 4: Away the pain and pour bad the girls own sis, make sound.

49:10 Speaker 7: The crowd, the crowd. I tre spine, watch my life, cattle fire, no way to find um.

49:55 Speaker 1: It's left to be a way to try as less you want its.

50:08 Speaker 15: Little work that jump out, drink away the pain.

50:14 Speaker 7: I call ide and let girls out hitches to make sound a crowd, the crowd. They don't have the same words.

50:34 Speaker 14: They don't have to come mine, they don't have to come.

50:39 Speaker 7: As read between.

50:46 Speaker 5: Super wealth that you.

50:51 Speaker 4: Trick away the pain, go out and let gods out.

50:55 Speaker 1: Hitch is to make a sound.

50:58 Speaker 7: The crowd.

51:30 Speaker 16: It's so hard to see where we are today. It's like everything we wanted so far away. All our dreams are like disten stars of play squeezing through her fingers like a ball to play. Calls and say we need another dollar stack. We hate to holler a retch you, but you gotta call us back. You're pulling that you collar like a cardiac. You full the pressure like a hard attack then like a thundercrack, you could see through wind off past. The blunder is everything that makes you fall. World turn a sunder like herb and sprawl as you wander through the dust like air resole, as you're trying to put the world together again, as you put your soul up against the feather again, put together.

52:03 Speaker 16: So about the weather, and then we can talk about the rest forever and then whatever.

52:07 Speaker 5: Then talk about how we treat.

52:08 Speaker 16: Each other, to feed each other, how we beat each other.

52:11 Speaker 5: We need each other.

52:12 Speaker 16: We gotta plant the seed in the brotherhood, bleed for the common good. So when you're sitting pitched in a traffic jam and you can see it all around you like a hall of ground. But the lady in a way welcome mamme scene to whole. But it needs another burningham because I tell you the truth. So we're disen the lead. I don't want to sell you the roof. You should listen to me. The cradle fell with the roof ies busing and looks like youth and still were missing the key.

52:34 Speaker 5: Sign of the times, just a sign of the times. Payin no attention, just to rhythm and riding. Put your hand out.

52:40 Speaker 16: I'm gonna help you clime because I don't want to be another sign at the times, just a sign of the times, just a sign of the time.

52:46 Speaker 5: Pay no attention, just to rhythm and ring. Put your hand out.

52:49 Speaker 16: I'm gonna help you climb because I don't want to be another sign of the times.

52:53 Speaker 5: We gotta bounce when we hit the ground.

52:55 Speaker 16: Take ahead, count take a look around.

52:58 Speaker 5: We y all amount to something I found. So help somebody.

53:00 Speaker 16: You have to make the world go around the sound of one hand.

53:03 Speaker 5: Just don't clap. We can rebuild tough with off handed. Wrap up.

53:07 Speaker 1: We can't pretend this is just a mishap.

53:09 Speaker 16: We can't defend our opinions with straps. We gotta ago solidarity, stay focused on freedom and cheer retea.

53:16 Speaker 5: We gotta share. It's the key to prosperity.

53:18 Speaker 16: Don't let fear turn into barbarity or would you care to be and someone else's shoes through the deal like hand of Heaven to choose. If everybone there's people who roll with the blue, say a prayer because.

53:28 Speaker 5: This mother just just sold to lose.

53:30 Speaker 16: I know you're feeling alone, engaged as I'm coverassing this microphone and range. You gotta stuptress in your craning and both burt caged up obsessing because you're not on your own, you never know when the need will appear. Trouble bruise as I do better. Hate what you hear a double true when you're.

53:44 Speaker 5: Planning to see it's doon here because your two d is to let.

53:47 Speaker 16: The world into fear. But you gotta stay clear of any of the negative that got you here. You gotta see a lot of what we see is fear, but you gotta rise above it, like the atmosphere inside of the.

53:58 Speaker 5: Times, just the side of the time. Are you no attention? Just a rhythm and rhyme. Put your hand out.

54:03 Speaker 16: I'm a healthy climb because I don't want to be another sign at the times.

54:06 Speaker 5: It's just a sign of the times, just a sign of the time. Are you no attention, just a rhythm and rhyme. Put your hand out.

54:12 Speaker 16: I'm a healthy climb because I don't want to be another sign of the times.

54:42 Speaker 5: W m n h rip the normal sign.

54:46 Speaker 1: We're back from the brain.

55:20 Speaker 2: Wide awake, but my mind's in pieces, trying to slow down my stride.

55:29 Speaker 3: You can't believe all the thoughts that filled my side

55:37 Speaker 3: gotta feeling bad. I can't escape it rising deep in my mind. Baby, I don't want.

55:47 Speaker 5: To no more.

55:49 Speaker 1: It's wasting too much time.

55:53 Speaker 7: And it's all.

55:55 Speaker 4: The times I shake, And it's all fears a fake, And it's all the dots I make it so right,

56:10 Speaker 4: And it's all times I shake, and it's all the fierce a fake get. It's all the dots I make song the times I shake, can't the fierce a fake,

56:54 Speaker 4: the chops I make it all.

57:01 Speaker 5: W a wake.

57:02 Speaker 4: But I'm trying to eat silence and I can't confide.

57:10 Speaker 3: I can't believe when my thoughts a twisted right.

57:18 Speaker 1: Well frozen.

57:19 Speaker 4: No, I'm caught inside it can't see past the lights.

57:27 Speaker 7: Maybe I don't want to no more.

57:30 Speaker 4: It's wasted too much time, And it's all the times I shake, And it's all the fears I think, And it's all the times I make it all night, and it's all the times I shake, and it's all the fears I think, And it's Oh.

58:02 Speaker 1: The downside man gets all towns are shake.

58:31 Speaker 5: Sis a fake.

58:35 Speaker 1: The downside mag gets all