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by Pierce Murphy

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about

**For the detailed liner notes of each song, please click on the song titles**

I traveled to Japan in 2014 with nothing but a backpack of clothes, an iPhone 5, and an existential crisis. I didn't know what direction my life was headed, what direction best served my heart. While I was there a friend suggested I buy a cheap guitar to travel with and write music about my experiences. I never imagined it'd go as far as it did.

The very first song poured it's way out of those strings in a hotel room in Hachioji, Tokyo. The second in an ancient castle in Kyoto. The third in a neon lit square in Osaka. The fourth at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima. And last, in the typhoon slick streets of Shibuya, Tokyo.

I recorded sounds I heard as I traveled. Some kind of audio snapshots of the trip, I suppose. They were sounds of train announcements, convenience store chimes, people talking, laughing, walking. It's such a rich tapestry of aural inspiration there. It's really very overwhelming.

While I was there I recognized beauty in a way that I had forgotten. I saw things revered for their simplicity and intention. It reminded me of the values I held, the kind of man I hoped to be. Upon returning home, I began implementing that way of thinking. I fell in love and made it the most important thing in the world.

The music sat on my phone and in my head for over a year. I wanted to honor the weight they had on my life, but wasn't quite sure what would accomplish that. I eventually began to put ideas together for a recording, giving each song a unique tone; making each song sound like the places that inspired them.

I wrote large orchestrations, called friends to lend their talents, used the sounds I recorded in Japan to weave in and out of each song and tell the chronological story of my journey. I recorded all the drums, bass, guitars, and lead vocals myself. I mixed the thing for what felt like ages. But I wanted it to be just right. To call up the essences I remembered so fondly.

It was completed just after the turn of 2017. Not content to just let it sit on the internet somewhere, I hatched the harebrained idea to tour through Japan in support of it. No one was more surprised than me when two of my closest friends and my brother agreed. We booked two weeks of shows in September of that same year.

This album is an artifact of an incredible, trying time in my life. It's a work of pure love and passion. I hope you enjoy listening to it.

ありがとうございます

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released September 15, 2018

All music written, produced, and recorded by Pierce Murphy.

Pierce Murphy - Drums, Bass, Guitars, Synthesizers, Programming, Vocals, Percussion, Mixing, Mastering, Production.

Rhianna Fairchild - Violin on "鶯 : Nightingales"

Kari Clifton - Cello on "鶯 : Nightingales"

Jake Wherry - Synthesizers, Programming on "心斎橋 : Shinsaibashi"

Dan Gomby - Alto Saxophone on "広島 / Hiroshima"

Drake Neimzcura - Vocals, Japanese Lyrics on "響が聞こえる / Pacific Echoes"

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Pierce Murphy Denver, Colorado

I'm a guitarist/vocalist from Denver, CO. I like jazz and I like to groove and I like to stick it to the man.

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