Album Notes

1. The Haunted Mansion / Grim Grinning Ghosts

Our loving cover of the music from the Disneyland ride. Features Joseph on 12-string guitar, vocals, percussion, and silly sounds; rY on trumpet and flugelhorn; Kristin on clarinet; Bennett on harmonies and toy glockenspiel; Jason on percussion; and Danny on amazing bass; with special guests Alina Cutrono on harmonies and Kat Devlin as Madame Leota.

2. Ophelia

Our original song from the future album "Crystal Donut: Forty Pages About You". It features Joseph on 12-string, classical, and electric guitar; Joshua "Joshwig" Nelson on electric bass; Kat and Jessica on harmonies; Brett on keyboards; Jason on skin drum and water bottle percussion; rY on brass; and a nice rhythmic loop designed by Rick Weed. A dark love-song.

3. The Water

An unfinished track also from "Crystal Donut", featuring Joseph on 6-string and 12-string guitars, harmony cello, and vocals; Kat and Jessica filling those three-part harmonies; "Emmy-Winning Daniel" on bass; rY on brass; Burning Dan on didjeridoo; Sally Stinnett on upright bass; a violin loop by Larissa; melodic cello by Peter Ludwig; and Patrick D'Arcy on uilleann pipes.

4. Comfortably Numb

A recent live performance; our loving reinterpretation of perhaps Pink Floyd's most enduring song, with three-part harmony and an electric guitar shaped like a flugelhorn. This performance features Joseph on 12-string guitar and vocals, with Bennett and Alina on harmony, rY on brass, Jason on percussion, Danny on bass, and Kristin kicking ass on the juuuust barely audible clarinet.

5. Hitchhiking Ghosts

This tiny coda, clocking in at 51 seconds, is an original piece inspired by the Haunted Mansion music, used here to round out our Hallowe'en EP.