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Ambidexterity

by Keith Fontaine

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Sleepy Dee 04:27
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Balderdash 05:04
Weary eyes strain bleary pictures in my brain they fog up glasses I don't own and never owned, I never know Making heads and tails I'm flipping coins, and flipping out of touch It's such a drag, white flags are waving in the wind, I'm rambling on and on Can you find my meaning? Can you catch my drift? Can you tell what I'm feeling? Oh well, it's all bullshit anyways
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Monochrome 05:33
Monochrome the color concept sits in my dome like a bug, a drug, a smack of smug a funeral home for cheery days, sun rays, a sweet melodic phrase sing, sing, it sits softly simpering and like clockwork, orange fades to grey like a steel-plated tiger ripping feathers off a blue jay the lights flicker, I bicker with a man says color's only rust on a tin can, and I said whoa quid pro quo If my palette's gonna fade then I don't want to know so take it slow turn your tail and go you can always say I told you so When I was a young man, poor man, wise man digging in the dirt with wide open wide eyes, man I was digging the sounds and the smells, even holes where tiny little ants dwell I was a train wreck speck with a craned neck checking out the sky shrinking real time, blue and white and sublime amazed, unfazed, unbroken gaze didn't see the creeping grey haze and I said whoa So bleach with me slowly we'll rust as iron fools just trust that gathering dust won't fuck with our attitude So bleach with me slowly we'll fade from grey to white just squint and dim the light, we're going blind Monochrome the color concept begs me to rest, stop my mop-top, pop-rock lyrical quest to keep my color from fading to the stratosphere get my back bent, my two cents out of here and like birds of a feather, peas in a pod I don't know whether we're together or together at odds like a six-shot shooting, you're damn tooting discuss how this head ain't big enough for just the two of us and I said whoa
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Paper Cranes 05:08
Trickle up my finger tips Round my head, out my lips Can't say what I want to mean and can't mean what I want to say There's a sun shower, flower and hour alone, in this my mind my home There is a fine line, a minus sign between meaning, feeling, that's where I Where I dangle And I can't hold on, to purpose anymore My thoughts they fold themselves to tiny paper cranes and fly away Marks on the page are meaningless, a scabbed and withered dress for cliches They knock at the windows, scratch at the door paper tiger tanks in a cold war They dream of escape, I dream a theme a stream of unconciousness fly little paper wings, I cling, they sting slip out the cracks in my walls Sometimes, with a flutter and a spark paper cranes ignite and sometimes, in a crooked spiral arc ashes float away
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Quinate 04:36
Does it really matter?

about

This is a collection of my work, recorded between September and December 2013. The album delights in radical changes in genre and production style, hurtling through a 60-year history of popular music, beginning in the 1950's and concluding with today.

All tracks were recorded at Saints and Sinners Sound Studios at the College of Saint Rose, except "Sleepy Dee" which was recorded in the Massry Center for the Arts.

Special thanks to Sean McClowry, Sean Wendell, Sister Mary Anne Nelson, Matt Finck, Doug Hewitt, and Jay Maggi for the education to make this possible.

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released December 23, 2013

All tracks written, arranged, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Keith Fontaine

Keith Fontaine- Lead and Backing Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Hammond Organ, Percussion, Programming
Vinny Fazio-Drums
Tyler Silva- Drums, Percussion
Tom Baxter- Drums
Gabe Gordon- Drums
Scoops Dardaris- Saxophone
Dan Denette- Saxophone
John Fatuzzo- Trumpet
Dave Paul- Trombone
Nate Wardlaw- Banjo, Backing Vocals
Alejandra Lizama- Lead and Backing Vocals
Matt Lisk- Backing Vocals, Amplifier Guru
Kevin Carey- Piano, Rhodes, Hammond Organ

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I am a guitarist, bassist, singer, songwriter, arranger, engineer, and producer.

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