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Denmark Death Metal Demo Xmas

by Graven

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At 44 years old, I'm just starting to begin to semi-feel like I sort of maybe know what I'm doing in the magical parallel universe of music. These tracks are a sonic and spiritual closet cleaning for me, and they needed to find the world for a while - so I'm happy to let them go to you. Early Graven stuff was a 1999 basement project in my parents house, and it was only ever just me and a TASCAM digital 8 track and one half-decent all-instrument mic that I moved around accordingly. Two years ago, I regained some of that guerilla-style feeling when my friend Shannon Murray asked me to come and record some songs at Raven Street Studios with a band for the TARA students - and I said 'can I just come and sloppily play all of the instruments myself?' - so I did.

"Get Real Gone" and "Coast With You" came from those sessions. In fact, I played every instrument and sang every vocal on all four of these songs - except for the drums in Ideal Eyes (those were thundered out by my longtime camp friend and Graven-guru Rehuel Ernest). Rehuel and I recorded the drums and acoustic guitar for that one many moons ago at Dean Watson's Gallery Studios. "If You Listen" is the first ever cover I've released. It's a song that I always loved that Elizabeth Mitchell covered, and that I sang to Sloan many nights in her early days. These four super varied songs aren't really about xmas, but they are about loss, hope, swimming through the flood of life (literally and figuratively) and even finding beauty in the hard times. Don't let anyone tell you to do music a specific way. It's totally your own - and even if you have to put it down for a while - it will always be there for you when you're ready to come back.

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released December 28, 2020

Get Real Gone and Coast With You recorded at Raven Street Studios.
Ideal Eyes drums and guitar recorded at The Gallery Studios.
If You Listen recorded in my parents basement.

All songs written by Matty McKechnie except "If You Listen" written by Micky Jones and Tommy Brown in 1972.
Drums on Ideal Eyes by Rehuel Ernest.
All other instruments and vocals by Matty McKechnie.
Album artwork by Sloan McKechnie.

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Graven Ottawa, Ontario

Graven (Matty McKechnie) is a Nepean, Ontario, Canada-born indie folk musician and songwriter who used to make bedroom rap casettes in his teens under the name “Man Of Steel”. His newest album Simple Complex was mixed by Joel Plaskett and made in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. ... more

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