el hollin- the derek joe brockett song archive: trembling things

after a year was spent writing and recording and working to finance the pressing of the ten inch of my strength is hatred, the, at the time, lack of linguistic nuance in electronic communication and the resultant consequences led me to believe that it wasn't in this one's best interest to keep on rockin' in the third world. and so the craft was temporarily abandoned for the who knows thousandth time.

enter rifle steve. rifle steve's got the fuel, remember, but the final tool ended up being something completely different than the rocket ship. and so it was this glorious rifle steve who convinced me to buy "a little red japanese gizmo of a rocket ship" and keep fighting the good fight. so, that was what was done, largely thanks to my friend damian who got together enough equipment to get started and brought it down to me in mexico. the result of that is trembling things.

only about 50 copies of this CD were made and they were given to friends and sent out in vain to record labels. the paper for the CD art was made of recycled banana leaf fiber. the image on the cover was of a photo i took of some toloache that was growing in the garden. toloache tremble at night when the flowers are open and rigid and nine kinds of potent.