Sunday, June 29, 2008

Album of the Week #45: Precursory 33

Project name: Mune Mud
Album name: Precursory 33
Release date: April 8, 2008
Release format: CD
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio

Precursory 33

Tracks:
1. That's All I Need to Know
2. Plutonic
3. Ominous
4. Peach Tree
5. Lyric
6. Why Did You Go? v2.0
7. Harley
8. Fruit Preserve
9. Under the Sky
10. Umbra Flame
11. That's Life
12. Decomposition of a Song
13. I'll Be Here
14. I Dream
15. Go West
16. Tip 26
17. King Song
18. Just Defied
19. The One-Liner
20. Eighty-Eight II
21. We Dog
22. Suburban 70
23. Leaves Fall

When Mune Mud began recording in 1990, it was with rudimentary equipment and talent. By early 1991 there was enough material to collect onto a tape. The collection was simply called Mune Mud. Over the next couple of years Mune Mud recorded more music and released more tapes. In 1994 it was decided to re-release the original tape, so Mune Mud was was reissued.

Years went by and many more Mune Mud albums were recorded and released. It was decided in early 2008 to revisit the beginnings of the project once again. For the re-re-release of Mune Mud, the songs would be put into the computer and cleaned up, then released on CD. And for a more complete picture of the early music, songs from the original Mune Mud were used along with some songs from the 1994 Mune Mud EP Devaulted, which was a small collection of unused material from the debut Mune Mud album.

So when the songs were chosen and cleaned up in the computer, it was time for packaging. It has been confusing over the years to refer to the original 1991 Mune Mud album (usually refered to as the debut album) and the 1994 version (usually referred to as the re-release), since they were both called Mune Mud. So a new name for this release was needed. That is why this album of previously used material has a new name.

This album also had a Studio first... a website for the album. On the website you can read the history of the album and listen/download most of the songs. You can visit the website here.

The end.

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