Woohoo, it's the end of another era of the Manimal's music. This is a compilation of my previous 4 albums Call of Mugi, Barry Goldman's World Tour, Ghosts Of Kaministiquia and Skywalk which summarize my life in the passing Fall-Winter season from the start of second year, the discovery of the Polish restaurant, the start of the college strike, some mild adventuring in the townships, the dropping out of school which I firmly decided while eating pierogis, the end of the Polish restaurant, gaining more knowledge of my heritage, oh the madness, the antics so crazy huh. I normally don't like to clutter my Soundcloud with compilations but I want this to feel like the end of an era of my music, it's just a thing for me. I think the eras end with the seasons and all, and this has been a good era for my music.
I have finally gotten a better expression, there is nothing I'm necessarily burning to write about. But I got a much clearer vision, and went from making songs of my idealization and my goofiness to trying to make something about my place in the world, my city, my nationality/heritage, my goof, all that stuff. I think if British bands sound firmly British, how can I sound not just firmly Canadian, but firmly like someone from Northwestern Ontario. We are not the same as the South, which is why I separate us, I want people to know when I say Ontario that I do not mean Toronto, and that Canada has so much more to it than the super cities. Until Call of Mugi I always called my stuff "Goof Rock" which is a tag I don't use anymore...it's just me rock! Not to say I'm so unique and special, my music and I are quite self-absorbed.
Sometimes I get down about my music, thinking it's not like the stuff I love and all. But all I can do as a one man band is make the music of me, and try to do stuff that feels like something only I can make. Being a one man band is a self absorbed kind of thing because it's only me you know. It all revolves around me, which is good and bad for making music. It means I can make literally whatever I feel, but within my own abilities without any other minds.Regardless of how it is. and this is certainly my strongest set of tunes put together that say something about me and who I am. In a silly way, because my music is still pretty silly all things considered. But I take it seriously regardless because it's the work of me, it's what I do.
I don't think what I make next will be so different, I know how I am. But this little chapter of my music is done and I'm actually happy with it, and how I have expanded my aims a little bit. I'm not such a profound lyricist, and my compositions are too rushed and overly jumpy, but it's how it goes. The songs here are some of my most honest I'd say. It's the superior soul of the Goldman.