Temple Mountain | Matt Connarton Unleashed

Speaker 1: Wide awake, but my mind's in pieces, trying to slow down my stride.

Speaker 2: You can't believe.

Speaker 3: All the thoughts that film my side. Gotta feeling better.

Speaker 1: I can't escape it rising deep in my mind. Maybe I don't want to no more. It's wasting too much time.

Speaker 4: And it's all the times I shake, and it's all.

Speaker 3: The fears I think, And it's cool down sun, make it so.

Speaker 5: Right, And it's all the times are shake, and it's all the fierce are fake, and it's.

Speaker 3: All the downs.

Speaker 6: I make song. The terms of shake get.

Speaker 3: A fierce are fake, and the chaps of.

Speaker 6: Make it a.

Speaker 2: One week.

Speaker 3: But I'm trying silence. I can't confide. I can't believe when my thoughts a twisted.

Speaker 1: Right well Frozenn, I'm catt inside.

Speaker 3: It can't see past the lights.

Speaker 1: Maybe I don't want to don't more.

Speaker 3: It's waste it too much time, And it's.

Speaker 4: All the times I shame, And it's all the fears I think, And it's all the townside make it all night,

Speaker 4: And it's all the times I shake, and it's all the fears I think, And it's all the touchside make.

Speaker 3: It's a fake townside man.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 2: 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 table 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 saying, 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. Say the last name in Palamini, Many, Palamy. You didn't get it. It's Many, all right, Well never mind.

Speaker 7: Everyone says, mean it should be Meani. Oh yeah, yeah, oh.

Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well never mind.

Speaker 7: Then I feel bad I corrected you on air.

Speaker 2: That's that's okay. I mean I kind of set myself up for that.

Speaker 7: Ah you did, you know what that's That's all that means is they took the right name.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean 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. Yeah, but I 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.

Speaker 7: No, and I liked I know how much she liked her name. Yeah, and uh, I don't know. It just felt right. Yeah, I felt right. And technically I'm still I'm not I'm technically handings now, but I'm technically in Polmont 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.

Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7: So we ended up going I have my appointment with the Social Security this Monday. Okay, that's the first step.

Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, is that a Is it a hassle? It must be yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, Well when you get married, it's not as much.

Speaker 7: So it's on my document, It's on my marriage certificates. So at least I have that as proof for change. Okay, but then I have to do so security, and 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 butt, oh is it?

Speaker 8: Yeahah yeah, and now you have to prove so much more.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little harder, but you know it's worth it. Yeah. Well there you go.

Speaker 3: Well I don't blame you. I don't blame you.

Speaker 2: Yeah, lovely, I thank you. So we should talk about so the new ep A 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. Oh yeah it was.

Speaker 9: You know.

Speaker 7: Twenty twenty five was literally the best year of my life.

Speaker 10: Yeah.

Speaker 7: 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 is Andrew Morrissey, 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.

Speaker 2: Produced album.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: 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 it, 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 solo. Yeah yeah, yeah, I had you know.

Speaker 7: There was a while where I was purchasing from Manchester Music Mill sponsor and not sponsored. I was really getting like a bunch of youth gear and I had this 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.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and I just kind of played a guitar solo over and that's what you hear. That's why that huge feedbacks at the end. 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 have an obsession with like Eurodrans tracks from the early two thousands, Yeah, like Cascatta's every Time we Touched 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.

Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, is that is that the case with all these on the EP? You write them on the on the guitar first, they're all they're all on guitar first. I can't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it otherwise.

Speaker 7: 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. Okay, 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he did did a great job. Now how did you connect with him? As far as I'm producing the EP?

Speaker 3: Uh?

Speaker 7: I think I posted on Facebook saying like I'm looking for a producer. And then Dan Fallon, I don't know if you know that name, great man. He he he's Andrew's dance drummer. Andrew's a multi instrumentalist. The guy 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 Air kind of song and held it in my opinion.

Speaker 2: 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? Was that at the BNH stage?

Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, yeah, I missed that show unfortunately, but I really I'm a huge fan of Dan.

Speaker 2: 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. Yeah, it's just cost Yeah.

Speaker 7: In fact, if I've the reason why I released it as an EP and not as individual singles 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. But the truth is is, like I haven't been really very musically pushed okay lately.

Speaker 7: 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 in the zeitgeist. Then I would be thinking about.

Speaker 2: All the time.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: You know, I don't know to a third degree, it depends. I mean, it's all perspective sometimes because you know, a lot of our guests, a lot of them do EPs, 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 a 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.

Speaker 2: They're releasing a series of singles that eventually become an album. Yeah, it was just kind of the inversion of that. But but I don't know some of the 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 it's the art. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well.

Speaker 7: And also the that's it's important to mention, like I think a 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.

Speaker 2: Of course this tastes good, of course. Yeah, that's why we do it. 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 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.

Speaker 2: 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 discipline that comes with that, you know.

Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's also an ego that comes with that, isn't there?

Speaker 4: M m?

Speaker 2: Yeah?

Speaker 7: Because you know where is the It's the catharsis in the making of the music, or is the catharis in the population of ears?

Speaker 2: You know, right? Right?

Speaker 7: 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 my job.

Speaker 2: Of oh therapist, congratulations, thanks you.

Speaker 7: 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 gues, 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.

Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah? Absolutely? Are you Have you been surprised at all about the the end result of this, because this is a this is a departure for you, this 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?

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: In this world. Yeah, and you can talk about whatever you want.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and you could have opinions and think about these things.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's the best way to approach it, right.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: Well, there is that idea too. I've heard Billy Joel say this, and I think I've heard Trent Reznors 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 other way. You got to be thinking about what's going to make the audience happy. Yeah, and I agree with that.

Speaker 7: I think the difference between myself and those artists 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.

Speaker 2: So it's it's complicated my point. Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. But but so you always wanted to do an EP like this or something like this? Yeah?

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: Uh.

Speaker 7: It's funny as I get older because and I'm not like an amazing guitar player any means but like I have my finesse. 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah, to do it for me?

Speaker 10: Yeah?

Speaker 2: Yeah, what's interesting about to your earlier work, you know, because we've well you've played live in studio too, 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, don'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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 7: You know, I always liked like artists like Elliott Smith, who, like, you know, his first three albums are very low five, 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 it felt ingenuine. It just felt very repetition.

Speaker 2: Really.

Speaker 7: Yeah, like I felt like 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.

Speaker 2: I don't know. I it's like, you.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well we should play another track from this of course? Should we play? Well, we could play the next one in the eph the crowd. Uh do you want to pa? How about there's a song I did. You've actually had her on the show. Her name's kat Ivy. Yeah. We did a song together on the EP. It's called No collect Calls. Oh yeah, oh oh yeah, she was great. Yeah that was that was a while ago. What was maybe a year ago she was on Yeah, she was fantastic, So I didn't realize that was her on this track with you.

Speaker 2: 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?

Speaker 10: Yeah?

Speaker 9: Uh?

Speaker 7: 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 on the show Really Yeah yeah Kyle the guitar player Krosskey. Uh, he played the guitar saloon pros that.

Speaker 2: Oh, very cool. 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.

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Speaker 12: I have a dream to make it, but this feeling that I can't shake today. With every step I make, there's always something new in my way with.

Speaker 6: The future here too.

Speaker 13: Nigga's words are monsty.

Speaker 12: The father was so let it go?

Speaker 6: Then who is truly letting life?

Speaker 11: Well?

Speaker 3: I guess so fun my.

Speaker 14: Way on my own, the fun, the way.

Speaker 3: All your words day of pit emptually our prey with this like fun have a mother monacle, but my mother's a sat this one because you.

Speaker 1: Want to move, Oh you want to do.

Speaker 3: Straight?

Speaker 6: And I try try, try to you, and I try to.

Speaker 3: Try, try try as he still well, I guess so fun away on my own fine away.

Speaker 6: All your words.

Speaker 3: Wake up to the play will slide around?

Speaker 10: When will that?

Speaker 5: Ess?

Speaker 11: I'll find uh?

Speaker 6: Will that?

Speaker 11: Jess oh fine? Y will that jess oh fine? Will not just oh fine.

Speaker 3: Way? Where I guess some fine way? Oh no, no, no fine go away?

Speaker 9: Or the words.

Speaker 3: I'll get done to him? This ladder?

Speaker 11: Will I guess? Oh fine?

Speaker 3: Why that? Yess oh?

Speaker 2: Find moum way? Oh that is really nice, Thank you, really nice. Temple Mountain with kat Ivy on that one. Yeah, how did that come about? You're you're collaborating with her on that song?

Speaker 7: We've been We just hit it off right away. Yeah 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 in Wilton, New Hampshire at place called the Listening Room with Darling Hill.

Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and we just we've started.

Speaker 7: 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 ye, she came to the she came to Andrew's place, and we really just banged it out and lyrically. It had to be about something that we both kind of agree with, and the songs kind of about are dislike for certain things in the music business.

Speaker 2: Yeah, so interesting. Yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: Okay, okay when you talk about like things that that you both don't like in the music business, like what do you mean?

Speaker 11: Like what?

Speaker 3: Uh?

Speaker 2: I think both of us.

Speaker 7: 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 middle man, and then you're giving this middleman some money and for what why am I giving you money?

Speaker 2: I don't understand that.

Speaker 7: It was about that and things that I've done, you know, so like it was just it was a song about frustration.

Speaker 2: 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, I like to send people your way because does she kind of live out your way too? Isn't she from that close to here? Lounderry? Oh okay? Oh yeah, very okay, Yeah, but I think we met her through you. Yeah, so that 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.

Speaker 2: 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 to be uh, you're gonna be doing a lot of shows or doesn't know? Yeah, because you mentioned you were a little burnt out. Yeah this past year.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I did like one hundred and sixty shows last year. Yeah, like two three hour 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.

Speaker 2: Wait, so for four shows in one day or yeah, four shows and four shows in one day, yeah, like two farmers' markets in the morning and then two shows in the afternoon. Good lord. Yeah, it must have been in the summertime, right, it was summertime. Yeah, yeah, that's the only time that would happen. Yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 7: Wow, it's hard, you know, the music industry, the music, but the scene has changed, even I've only been doing it for two years and I'm noticing differences. Yeah, and uh, there's a huge saturation of artists at the moment, which is a really beautiful thing, like anyone can do this. Yeah, 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.

Speaker 2: So I don't know yet. I think I think I am limiting myself to gigs.

Speaker 7: I have gigs. I have a show tonight, for example, But.

Speaker 2: Where are you playing tonight? We should plug that at the Whiskey Tavern in Laconia. Okay, okay, excellent, But.

Speaker 7: I'm kind of willing to diminish playing live. I'm going to go into the studio and record some songs, yeah, and focus on that for a little bit and then see where that takes me.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: 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 who like, if it's just you and a guitar live? Is that easy to I think so.

Speaker 7: Because they were written originally, and 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 tapping 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 so 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.

Speaker 7: It has that kind of sound to it. When you play it live, it sounds more like John Mayer's Neon. 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 the grief is still there.

Speaker 2: Uh 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 to 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?

Speaker 3: Uh?

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: 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 Temple Mountain and this track is called Prozac.

Speaker 3: This has lost its way words.

Speaker 13: Shouting loud, run but I can't be here. Did I fall from those magic curves? Did I get all that anti jet she would plant to roll around my mind?

Speaker 2: Did the voices were so loud?

Speaker 3: Now I don't ship tear from my eyes.

Speaker 2: I don't want to so any hell.

Speaker 3: Choices cute made now all up here.

Speaker 14: You say, I'm not okay. No, I'm not oh okay. I'm not oh okay.

Speaker 3: Factual without you.

Speaker 2: I'm not okay.

Speaker 3: Su stay generation in words.

Speaker 15: Simultaneously outside, separated from my aboudy, I struggling to rise.

Speaker 9: The choices cu.

Speaker 3: Now al up here.

Speaker 6: You say, I am not.

Speaker 3: Jams, I'm not.

Speaker 5: J Thatt.

Speaker 6: Thatt you, I'm not O Jay.

Speaker 14: Liter not.

Speaker 3: Session queen.

Speaker 2: Oh kay. 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?

Speaker 7: Uh?

Speaker 2: It's asked.

Speaker 7: So there's a line in the crowd this on the crowd that says dress sharp. But that's not why I called it that. I asked a friend of mine to do the album artworker. Name's Casey Arnold. She's an incredible local artist. Uh strong shout out there. 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 which isn't on Spotify anymore.

Speaker 7: 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 just it was like, oh, dress sharp.

Speaker 2: Okay, okay, very good, very good. Oh you said 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?

Speaker 10: Yeah?

Speaker 7: I removed that song, a song called Grateful, and a song called Lonely because I just couldn't stand the production on it. Really it was it was it was when I in between Schema and this album, I went to a different studio to record some stuff. Yeah, and I didn't know what I was doing, okay, and it was too unproduced. So like it was cool, they're great songs, but like they were double voiced and they the audios and it was pitchy and it just didn't feel like I was representing myself.

Speaker 2: Well okay, yeah, what was it? Was it a situation where like the engineer there didn't uh wasn't helpful and train your sound or.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: 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.

Speaker 7: Now, I could say what his name rhyme's with no, no, no,

Speaker 7: I just say it just didn't feel right, and I think, uh, I think I knew I wanted to head in the direction of address Sharp, which is why I entered the studio, 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 because I did the waterfall effect on them and my views, 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah, was that a hard decision?

Speaker 6: No?

Speaker 2: No, no, it was really really Yeah, I've been I knew I was going to do it for a while. Okay.

Speaker 7: And it's funny because and I forget how to play a lot I saw sometimes really 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?

Speaker 2: Interesting? Yeah? Because I try.

Speaker 7: I don't normally use like theory or anything like that. Yeah, 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.

Speaker 2: No kenning happens all the time, does it really? Yeah? Yeah, I can only play like four songs on Schema still no kennying. Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 7: 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 Wonderwall like it's no tomorrow. So it's I don't know. Maybe it's a uh, maybe it's an insecurity thing towards my own music where I purposely forget it.

Speaker 2: 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. I feel like that's what Alfred Adler, a psychotherapist, would say. 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.

Speaker 7: I have an idea for prozac? Yeah, yeah, but it's 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. Oh, and then like at the end it would be me like dancing with a bunch of pill bottles. But that could that 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 change my life. Yeah yeah, but you know again it's I would do it.

Speaker 7: I have people that I could use that I I would do, but I don't know if I'm interested. 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, like people should music videos.

Speaker 2: But I just if I would do it if I felt the need to, right right, Yeah at the moment. I do like your idea, though, I think that's fine.

Speaker 7: I've looked up on Amazon for pill bottle costumes and I haven't found the one that like in my you know, the CVS pill bottle. Yeah yeah, it requires like instructions to open. Yeah, yeah, that's the bottom, 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.

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it shows like buds in the in the.

Speaker 7: Bottle and it's like, no, that's not that's not what I'm right, right, So i'd have to be creative and yeah no, not yet maybe someday.

Speaker 2: But you can't order a pill bottle, uh costume. That's interesting. Yeah, yeah, I guess you can get just about anything on animals type in anything on Amazon. Well yeah, 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.

Speaker 7: 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 in Francis Town, New Ham Sure, 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, yeah, yeah, I just I couldn't take it.

Speaker 2: Anymore.

Speaker 7: And uh, when I released this album and I could, I haven't been able to write a song. And since May, let's say which for me, that's a long time.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, two days ago something happened.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I've written a few songs in the past couple days and one of them I really like, and I reached out to Andrew.

Speaker 2: And I showed it to him and we're going to do it. Excellent. I'm excited. Excellent. Are you gonna do it as a single.

Speaker 7: Or 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.

Speaker 2: I just want to you know.

Speaker 7: I say that now and then you're gonna see me. I'll do an interview and like a few months and I'm like working harder than ever.

Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, I think I think musicians go through this, of course, yeah, oh absolutely.

Speaker 7: In fact, you know, there are people and I mean this is the comp 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 so inspiring and I'm I can't do that really, Yeah, I mean I did.

Speaker 2: And then I need you need a few months off sometimes. Yeah, well you also have a career, you know, so it's it's hard. I appreciate that empathy. Yeah, nice to hear that it's hard. It's hard to do like everything that you want to do, you know.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 7: 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.

Speaker 2: Well, so this show actually started as a podcast in one 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 bring my podcast to w M and H And it was April of twenty seventeen, so coming up on nine years. So is in terms of like careers in this field, is this been the one that you have the most longevity with?

Speaker 2: Is this show? No? Because I've been doing I've been doing. Uh well, I I'm a hypnotherapist. As you know, I've been right, I've been doing that for more more than twenty years. Yeah, I'm I'm so upset we didn't discuss that.

Speaker 7: Now I'm like, I have so many questions. Yeah, yeah, so funny, Yeah yeah, how has that been good?

Speaker 2: Good? Well, you know it's January, it's you know, New Year's resolution time.

Speaker 3: So uh.

Speaker 2: So you don't have like necessarily do you have consistent clients? Hell? Or is it always uh new people? There's always new people, because the thing about hypnotherapy is if I'm doing a really good job, want and done, they don't come back. Yeah, they don't need to fascinate.

Speaker 16: Yea, the opposite with the I know, I know exactly exactly if you do want and done, Yeah, you got a gift if you want to know, if.

Speaker 2: You want to help someone with a phobia, you have to take a while, you take your time with it.

Speaker 7: 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 the right right.

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so interesting. Yeah, well, we are approaching the top of the hour, so I want to make sure because we got 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.

Speaker 7: As of yesterday? I just I just renewed my website. It turns out that site 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 and Music, you'll find me reach out. I'm friendly and uh you know, get me a gig quote Jocko Pistorius.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you don't you uh oh, you have something tonight too. We should for our live listeners, we should plug that again.

Speaker 7: You'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.

Speaker 2: Oh, very nice. I'm doing that on the twenty ninth. Oh excellent, yeah, excellent. Those are my two.

Speaker 7: I'm doing a couple more gigs throughout this month, But those are the two ones that I guess I'll push right now.

Speaker 2: And you'll be playing songs from the new EP at those. Oh yeah, very good, Yeah, very good. You're gonna play all four of them. Maybe I have to relearn the crowd? 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, we get that mic on there. Sorry, well you had gotten up at one point, I was muted.

Speaker 2: I was mute at when you get up of course.

Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yes, always getting into some good trouble. You can keep tabs on me at Gencoffee dot com.

Speaker 11: J E. N.

Speaker 2: N c ot 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 of the show, you know anyway, So, uh, 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?

Speaker 2: Uh?

Speaker 7: This song was about well, so this is the song that 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.

Speaker 2: Oh, very good, very 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 w m n H Radio dot Orge on my website Matt Connorton dot com and happy to do your everybody, and we will close out today's show with this. This is the crowd from Temple Mountain and his new EP dress Sharp.

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