House of Earth

The Tami Show

Motel Fleurs du Mal

Oneiric invitation - the song/dream transforms, reshapes earth/bones/word into warm lips and flesh - solace from skeletal terrors - a beckoning towards release now corpus becomes dream again. Sweat-soaked pillow, bruised thighs; a fading sepia come-on. The song is the room and moment and memory, the body and the ashes - the

Motel Fleurs du Mal

Oneiric invitation - the song/dream transforms, reshapes earth/bones/word into warm lips and flesh - solace from skeletal terrors - a beckoning towards release now corpus becomes dream again. Sweat-soaked pillow, bruised thighs; a fading sepia come-on. The song is the room and moment and memory, the body and the ashes - the ghost of that indecipherable smile.

Smeared lipstick static from a broken antennaed wire hanger TV. Revlon tube cathode tube synthetic daisies; a bottle and some bills on the night stand. Star-spangled banner then the hum of darkness we’re alone. Hush and roar, the art of smoke-stained flower arrangement.

Tony Watts

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Grind My Nails

The Tami Show

"18th Street-somewhere between Mission and Valencia. Or dreaming on the passenger side-Texas to CA. How did the song go? Promised land or end of the line? We recorded this live in an apartment in San Francisco. Luis played trumpet into a sink, swapping shots of tequila with guitarist Todd Gleason. Matt Stromberg on drums, kit stripped down to

"18th Street-somewhere between Mission and Valencia. Or dreaming on the passenger side-Texas to CA. How did the song go? Promised land or end of the line? We recorded this live in an apartment in San Francisco. Luis played trumpet into a sink, swapping shots of tequila with guitarist Todd Gleason. Matt Stromberg on drums, kit stripped down to almost nothing, rumored to be sane. Tami sang played recorded arranged organized worked her ass off. I leaned against a mattress propped against the wall, played harp and tried my best to stay sober throughout the proceedings. Some slight overdubs, and the last two selections from a different evening- a birthday party for our dear friend K.- same apartment, same Mission District. Todd on vocals but sans Matt, who must have been out somewhere getting drunk, though surely keeping his cool. Final mixes for both sessions were experimented with and alchemically transmuted in the labs at Sisyphus Sound by Tami, Colin, and Jordan. The songs on the first session are originals, written by Tami's brother Craig Means and arranged by Tami in her own inimitable style, her blue melodies rising counterpoint to Craig's fierce lyrical attack. (One tune, "And Besides," was co-written by the two.) The songs from the second session are covers. California to Texas. Views from above." - Tony Watts

Originally released on the record label Hinah https://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah024

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