Sophomore Slump
© Copyright-Mike Przygoda
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Record Label: Mike Przygoda
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A follow-up to 2004's "Hang On To Your Ego," this album contains twelve original songs that explore life in the early 21st century. From fear and paranoia to humor and excitment, a collection of characters meet, interact, scream, and whisper their reactions and desires.
Genres collide. Some songs contain distorted manic blues guitar with bass clarinets, violins, violas, and cellos soaring over it; while others contain layers of mallet percussion, flutes, radios, and prepared percussion. There are pop songs with bright pianos and French horns and big band arrangments with a 13 piece horn section manned by three people.
Throughout all of this pervades a sense of songwriting that borders on being sincere and irreverent. Is it journalism? Commentary? A cantata? Leftover B-sides? Clues are hidden throughout.
Guest musicians include Molly Agnew, Tim Borst, Andra Durham, David Ferguson, Jon Gauger, Stacy McKinley, Elissa Metropoulos, Marcus Ranucci, KT Somero, and Hannah Trobe. Engineered and mastered by Stephen Jansen. Art by Katie Boehm.
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BuY thIS Or I WILL kILL ThE EasTER BUNNY!!!!
author: P-Addy
Once upon a time Brian Wilson, Roger McGuinn and Bob Dylan ripped off and then bludgeoned to death the most fantastic composer/song writer that ever lived: Alejandro Esteban Roja Minhagenjihnwilshirebob III! He spent an eternity in limbo working at a store called ‘The Barbequed Parrot’. There he was met with bikers who would never pay him and this resulted in his severe Ashcroftian Paranoia. As the muzak blared at him from the mono crap distributor, Alejandro rebelled and concentrated his frustration into a sort of flaming pie and stuck Creation's thumb down in it. He was reborn as Mike Przygoda and came up with this gorgeous collection of songs. This is his revenge on his murderers. His orchestral arrangements will beat them down in a steel cage of doom!! His drumming will elbow them into obscurity!! His guitars will chord them back to the stoned age!! VIVA CAPITAIN PRZYGODA!!! You all owe Mike!! Help get him paid!! Buy his CD!! Otay!!
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Stunomical!
author: Jim Mullen
This CD is so good I had to make up a new word for it; Stunomical! Mike traverses so smoothly through different styles and instrumentations that it is clear his writing is mature and pushing hard at the ever expanding envelope. Wonderfully inventive, highly imaginative, but yet still fun and easy to listen to. We should all be jealous.
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Still Defying Genres and Categories
author: RadioMike
Przygoda's last album, Hang On To Your Ego was a great introduction to a musician who is committed to defying genres and the mainstream's narrow-minded expectations. Sophomore Slump further defies the genre-loving types by delving further into his varied musical influences. Mike Przygoda is a wealth musical influences that he pours into every musical note.
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refuses to be pigeon-holed
author: Aviva Jaye
Once again Mike makes an album that flirts with variety and diversity of genre and insturmentation in a most engaging, caustic and tasteful fashion. How does music like not blow the crap on radio out of the water? My opinion? It does...down to the ever-so-witty and true song titles. A must-listen indeed!
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