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Sheep Love & Metal Gloves

by Brian Trahan

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1.
Just an Echo 05:00
The kids play By the schoolyard I’m not like them now Can you hear me Or the thunder? Won’t you hold my hand In the dark------ Here, creeping after me Leave me, Leave me The kids play By the schoolyard I’m not like them now Can you hear me Or the thunder? Won’t you hold my hand In the dark Current not blue, burns, not soothes Fish on a line, and me Enveloped in a battle cry Step aside, step aside Just an echo Here, creeping after me Leave me, Leave me Here, the words don’t make a sound This is just an echo
2.
This Monster 04:07
“I only have six months,” he said His eyes were wet, his eyes were wet He held a candle near his chin His body let this monster in His body let this monster in “What am I to do with this What about my wife and kids How can I abandon them" His body let this monster in His body let this monster in You only have six months, I said To be the man you’ve always been To hold your wife and love your kids Why does it have to come to this? His body let this monster in His body is a dying man He left his candle in my hands He left and never came again He died and never came again
3.
With My Head 04:29
4.
Small machines Like people work together doing nothing to make something Small machines Like people work together doing nothing to make something Little people singing I don’t want sex I don’t want sex Just money for my family Just for love and bread Our love and bread, we keep it on the table You are a girl, I am a man That doesn’t mean that I like puzzles I’m part of something riding on a subway With a billion cars, maybe But I’m squeezing out like toothpaste Oh, on a Sunday When you still think it’s time for church I don’t want sex I don’t want sex I looked at porn tonight because of TV – it was TV I watch it with my family And my grandparents were married at 20 They were married at 20 and I’m 30, almost 8, almost 18 and almost trying to get off the train while living Oh, fairy tales are fiction Fairy tales are fictional A night in shining armor with a sword to fuck the princess but I don’t want sex And I don’t want to love just one, or cut my hair Or make you want to fuck me I just want to think About the way you love
5.
It doesn’t feel like spring ‘Til the sun is shining It’s the middle of april And we’ve only had rain The sun won’t shine ‘Til we come to our senses But that won’t ever happen So the winter stays Splash me with the urine I keep pouring in your water Because I’m only consuming To perpetuate dying So someone consume me So my life can start living And give me your voices Sing me awake It doesn’t feel like spring ‘Til the sun is shining It’s the middle of april And we’ve only had rain The sun won’t shine ‘Til we come to our senses But once we settle down We’ve got nothing to say I'm tired of sleeping Give me your morning Stop it with that grieving ‘Cause nothing has changed, and we’re Living in fire A fire, we started So keep on, moving ‘Cause that’s what they say It doesn’t feel like spring ‘Til the sun is shining It’s the middle of april And we’ve only had rain The sun won’t shine ‘Til we come to our senses But once we settle down, we’ve got nothing to say X3
6.
I have tried everything I don’t know what I need To make the scenery shake To make my image move And when you’re far away And through these silent days Part of me has escaped I find my thoughts with you I have tried everything I don’t know what I need To make the air ring true I still love you And when you’re far away And through these silent days Part of me has escaped I find my thoughts with you And when you’re far away And through these silent days Part of me has escaped I find my thoughts with you--- I find my thoughts with you--- I find my thoughts with you

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JUST AN ECHO MUSIC VIDEO -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIuvs_uv4io

Sun Nectar's first step into the world, Sheep Love & Metal Gloves, is a beautifully crafted compositional endeavor employing a soaring string quartet that weaves through unique song structures grounded in grooves, with melodies that resemble pop music. The band believes in the power of the pocket, using phat grooves for feel and string quartet for humanity.

This record explores our sheep and ant-like qualities, the search for unique love and the associated anomalies, and the internal struggle to stay afloat in a sea of information and contrary motion.

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released August 5, 2014

*Album art hand painted and constructed by Dasha Shleyeva
Text layout by Bryan Kveton, Color correction and font by Sarah Hall*

Sun Nectar is:
Brian Trahan ~ Songwriter, keys and vocals
Rebekah Durham ~ Violin
Courtney Kaita ~ Cello
+ The Rotating Rhythm Masters of NY

Audio Production:
Brian Trahan – Recording, mixing
Ben Collins – Recording at Big Sky Studios, Ypsilanti, MI
Nick Nagurka – Recording at Backseat Productions, Ann Arbor, MI
Eric Huntley – Recording, add’l production, creative energizer
Joe Lambert – Mastering
William Stanton & Michael Coffman – Mixing Consultant

Musicians on record:
Vocals, Keys ~ Brian Trahan
Drums ~ Theo Katzman
Strings ~ Laura Longman, Daniel Winnick, Julie Michael, Daniel Fabricant Smith
Bass ~ Joe Dart (track 1), Ben Rolston (track 5)
Voice ~ Hannah Winkler (track 6), Courtney Miller (track 7)
Sax ~ Alekos Syrapoulos, Yuma Uesaka, & Ryan Proch (track 5), Mark Dover (track 7)

Special thanks to: ~ oh my god, there are so many people who contributed to this project in so many ways!

Eric Huntley for everything, from recording and song ideas, to working with me at all hours to get a mix of With My Head done for the Collage concert, to editing, to your general contribution of hours of your time for a total of free dollars, to general life-beasting and understanding... I owe it all! ~ Jen Morris, for constant willingness to lend a helping hand, for tolerating and assisting with countless mix sessions, for the coffees, meals, and general wonderfulness ~ Leah Bobby for helping sort out Just an Echo lyrics and for inspiration ~ Will Stanton and Mike Coffman for really great mix notes once I couldn't tell if any of the music was any good anymore ~ My family for infinite love and support, and for being really awesome people ~ Guy Licata for letting me stand under his fountain of marketing and branding wisdom, despite my general failures at rolling out "assets" ~ All of my roommates for tolerating me pacing around singing, yipping, and talking to myself like a psychopath, and making crazy noises at all hours and never complaining ever (I can't believe the luck of having such tolerant people around me!) ~ to the Lodge, for allowing me to use the studio for this project after my intern hours ~ to the band, who recorded almost everything they did in exchange for nothing but Zingerman's sandwiches... though they are amazing sandwiches you are obviously worth so much more (at least 2 sandwiches each) ~ for everyone else who listened or listens to the music or in any way brightened my life (so, pretty much everyone I know...) whether it be a recommendation, a comment, a pat on the back, a hug, even a slap in the face, thanks for the encouragement and/or impetus to push up and on. And For You!

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