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You Will Sail With Me

from At Home At Sea by E.G. Phillips

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“You Will Sail With Me” — our penultimate track — is the oldest song on the new album, an artifact from a previous millennium, if memory serves (it rarely does these days). It started as an exercise in minimalism — using just an arpeggio of a single chord as the backdrop to hang words and melody over (as opposed to the more complex changes I’m want to use). And the words themselves are sparse as well, with verses that fold back onto themselves and a chorus that ebbs off into ever shorter phrases.

The track is a soundscape built on top of a loop of that arpeggio. Louise Nalbandian’s haunting ooohs, recorded inside a cave on the California coast, sweep over the pattern. An echoing electric guitar played by producer Ben Osheroff clangs and lingers with a sound that reminds me of the soundtrack to the Doctor Who episode the “Seeds of Doom” — otherworldly and ethereal. The upright bass is looped in as well.

But the real stand out here is Ben Visini on drums. Visini is a tour de force throughout the album, ably adapting to all the genres thrown at him. As a sort of reward, he gets to cut loose here and just compose on the fly — to go wherever his imagination would take him him with soft mallet rolls, delicate cymbal scrapes or cacophonous crashes.

While recording Ben O. would just close him eyes and get a bit lost in a meditative trance, absorbing all the percussive textures washing over us. After a few takes he remarked that this was the reason he does this.

Had Ben O. had his druthers, the album would have ended with this track. While I was tempted go along with this approach, I had one last song that I felt had to cap off this set...

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I will build a sailboat
You will sail with me
We will sail together
You will sail with me

My feet feel the sand rush
As I slowly sink
The waves tug my ankles
As I slowly sink

I know it’s just a dream but
I like it anyway
I know it’s just a dream but
I just can’t
Give it up
Today
Dear

Run up shore then retreat
And crisscross the sea
We could sail forever
And crisscross the sea

I know it’s just a dream but
I like it anyway
I know it’s just a dream but
I just can’t
Give it up
Today
Dear

I will build a sailboat
You will sail with me
We will sail together
You will sail with me

credits

from At Home At Sea, released July 12, 2019
E.G. Phillips (Vocals, Guitar), Louise Nalbandian (Backing Vocals). Ben Osheroff (Electric Guitar), Sean Silverman (Upright Bass), Ben Visini (Drum Kit)

produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Osheroff
mastered by Matt Boudreau, Working Class Audio
songs and artwork by E.G. Phillips (ASCAP)
published by Ducks With Pants Music (@duckswithpants)

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E.G. Phillips San Francisco, California

E.G. Phillips is a San Francisco based songwriter who creates lyric driven songs with his own special blend of whimsy and cinematic imagery which he uses to give a wry take on dealing with the longings of the heart and the madness of existence.

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