A modern poet's Folk, Rock, Jazz musical journey of self-actualization through the creative process. Tracked live and unedited, this music has an intimate and honest delivery--an ambitious stretch toward musical impressionism rooted in film studies.

15 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Modern Folk, ROCK: Acoustic



Details:
Chiparus is deceptively simple, unassuming yet interesting, lo-fi, homemade, and honest songwriting for the people.
The Wax Wings Project is Chiparus' debut record.
The story follows from the porch of a Santa Cruz home, the traffic and wind Chimes mixing with thoughts and memories in the air, in my head...
Logging onto my computer, I lament over an email romance-gone-south in Ashley's Song...
deciding to leave the house for a bit, I end up downtown and in a relationship with a troubled waitress, Nasturtium, the bright orange flowers found growing through the sidewalks in the dilapidated part of town...
Jessicca is a more in-depth tale of a woman who's sunk to the point of sleeping with her doctor to feed her drug addiction...
returning to the head-space of track 1, Evil is the mounting pressure of domesticity; the claustrophobia of quiet nights not saying what must be said...
My Berenice delves into my darkest fantasies as I obsess over a beautiful stranger and imagine having my way with her--perhaps realizing the sickness of my desire...
Water is a sublime interlude washing me of the demons exposed in Berenice, and preparing for...
The Time Apart is a return to Chimes, similar chords/melodies, though instead of endlessly repeating itself (like a wind-chime does), the cycle begins to change, the personal realization has occured, and I begin expressing my private wishes, my songs, my expression will carry me out of the labrynth...

(the remaining 7 tracks are bonus material including 4 tracks from my Chiparus "Wrecked" EP, a few live recordings including a cut of "Cold July" with THE BILLS backing me up, and more...