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Life Silences

by Naked House

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July Song 05:36
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Pop Smear 01:18
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Youforia 02:54

about

This EP is a collection of instrumental material that I recorded between late 2009 to late 2013. Some of these tracks have already seen the light of day at one point in some form or another, but I decided to compile them all into one package.

Recently my mom was forced to sell an upright piano that meant a great deal to us. This piano had sat in a storage unit for the past two years, collecting dust and storage fees and remaining unused and neglected. It was a piano that had belonged to my grandparents, and they had first acquired it sometime in the 50s. The sentimental value of that piano is something I cannot adequately describe in words, but here I am trying.

Judging from all the sheet music of hymns that were inside the piano bench, I can imagine the spiritual and emotional experiences my grandmother must have had while playing that piano. To the best of my knowledge, my grandma suffered from manic depression and schizophrenia. She would later have an operation on her brain that would cause her to lose a significant amount of her memory. I never really knew my grandmother very well because she passed away in 1995 when I was just 4 years old. I have only one memory of her; I was standing next to my mom in the kitchen of their house in Waterdown (the same house my mother and I would later move into when my grandfather passed away in 2005), just looking at her, and she at me. I think I said, "Hi, grandma". She just looked back at me. I remember thinking, "though I don't know this person, I know I'm supposed to love her". When she died, I didn't feel the typical sadness one feels after a family member passes, but I did feel intense grief that was the result of seeing the pain it was causing everyone else around me at her funeral, especially my mom and my uncle (who would pass away half a year after my grandpa at age 45). Whenever I'd visit my grandpa with my mom, I'd say, "Hi Grandpa" and give him a big hug and kiss on the cheek, grab a soda and a handful of chocolate chip cookies and run downstairs to the basement to play that piano.

Since, as a child, I continued to express an exuberant interest in playing the piano, my mom and grandpa both discussed the idea of giving me piano lessons. It was through these lessons that I was able to develop my musical skills and express myself as a growing boy. I found my love for music on that piano, I practiced on that piano, I wrote and recorded most of my songs with that upright piano. Every time I played that piano through the years, it was the only connection to my grandmother that wasn't cut, a connection that was visceral and as close to knowing her as I could possibly ever get. I felt it was almost an interface between us.

I think about them every day. I miss them.

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released June 19, 2020

"(Heaven) Blue Up" was recorded on September 23, 2013
"July Song" was recorded sometime in July 2013
"Pop Smear" was recorded sometime in March 2011
"Lettin Flies In/Cockroach" was recorded in late 2010
"Youforia" was recorded on December 7, 2009

Damon Guyett: upright piano, keyboards, wind chimes, field recordings, drum sequencing, synth bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, kalimba, vocals, cover art

Recorded at Damon's former home in Waterdown, Ontario

All songs were written, performed, engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered by Damon Guyett

July Song (Official Music Video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVpmMdwVhx4

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Naked House Hamilton, Ontario

Damon Guyett (born May 21, 1991), also known by his moniker Naked House, is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer- songwriter and former keyboardist/vocalist of the psych-rock band Dizzy Spells, of which he was a founding member. Damon was born and primarily raised in Hamilton, ON, where he studied piano. The name "Naked House" is meant to convey comfort in one's own skin, abnormalities and all. ... more

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