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The Seventeenth Century b​​​/​​​w The Seventeenth Century (MK Demo)

by The Caribbean

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Like many Caribbean songs, “The Seventeenth Century" started with a melody floating around in the brain, waiting for a story. Around the same time, listening to a Judee Sill record, I heard the unmistakable connection between Bach, Judee Sill, Brian Wilson, Andy Partridge, and what The Caribbean is doing. And the continuum of melody, ideas, emotion, and art made sense to me.

It struck me that all of us, in one way or another, are participating in some time-honored tradition, trying, in some fashion, to move it forward - in so doing, tied, as if family, with everyone who came before.

So, it was an essay or a pop song, the latter being much more fun, and like Suzanne Vega once said (I’m paraphrasing), once you finish writing it, you can play it!

I also had a couple of lines I really wanted to use. One, “I can’t protect you here / the worms are in control“ seemed like an interesting and unsettling introduction. It had no clear connection to the theme of the song but that’s never really stopped us before. We’ve played “The Seventeenth Century" live for a year or more and then deconstructed it and re-imagined it to some degree for the recording - and that’s what you have before you.

Michael

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released October 19, 2018

Recorded by Dallas Kentucky at the National Crayon Museum, Washington, DC, Summer 2018.

Mixed by Don Gunn at The Office, Seattle, WA, Summer 2018.

Artwork by Joel Ebner.

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