Category: Eric Din

I posted an earlier mix of this just in time for the Xmas holidaze. Here it is completed and mastered for release to the Interwilds! I’ve been feeling this one anew during this social distancing time, and I hope it takes you to a nice place for a minute too. Island Life comes out in the streaming services on Caturday, May 23. Exclusively here and on BandCamp now.

ISLAND LIFE

I’ve been workin’ late on Friday night
And I’m goin’ in on Caturday
I’ve been thinkin’ bout the island light
As another summer peels away

Hanging in this curtain
Grey skies over urban
Lately my mind’s been wanderin’

To where the horizon shoulda been
Touch, but I can’t be certain,
Where it all ends I start again,

Let’s blow it off
I wanna get away
I wanna hear some music
I wanna hear ya say

All the world’s an island, life is free,
Half a million friends, but I’m lonely,
As the glaciers fall and raise the sea,
Won’t you save some island life for me?

Why can’t we all just live in peace?
Sometimes I break down in the morning and cry
Scream out in the night
Only to realize
There’s nothing in the world we can’t do
Anything we set our minds to
Maybe someday I won’t always be alone

Hanging in this curtain
Grey skies over urban
Lately my mind’s been wanderin’

Right over the silver lining
South, to the blue shining
A postcard sent home to mom

All the world’s an island, life is free,
Every day looks still more crazy,
Greta sailed the wide and open sea,
For to save some island life for she
For we

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Eric Din – Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Loop Drums
Michael Urbano – Live Drums
Paul Jackson – Synths and Percussion

Recorded at Din’s house and East Bay Recorders,
by Michael Rosen and Mr. Din
Paul Jackson recorded by Paul Jackson at Paul’s house
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Eric Din somewhere out in the woods
Cover art by Shannon Wheeler

Music and lyrics ©2019 by Eric Roy Dinwiddie,
King Roy Music, BMI

The latest from Eric Din was recorded mere hours ago where he’s diligently isolated. We’re compiling a collection of Din’s more sensible comments. “Much Better” is the first entry in this exciting new log.

Much Better

Much
Better

It’s much better
It’s much better
It’s much better
Without butter

Go to your room
Calisthenics 
Kook mal, Schtruppi

It’s much better
It’s much better
It’s much better
Without butter

Guaranteed in at least thirty states 

It’s much better
It’s much better
It’s much better
Without butter

A gelatinous, seething tube
From outer space
They’ve come
To put us in our place

Quack quack  

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Guitar, voice and production by Eric Din
Artwork by Shannon Wheeler

©2020 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI

Berkeley Cat Records is appalled to announce the release of Barf, the new single from Eric Din. We tried to stop him, but when Din sets his mind to something he does it, even if it’s Barf. We’re sending him to counseling, where he’ll get the help he needs, alongside Bill The Cat and Too Much Coffee Man. We wish him well and hope for a speedy recovery and yes, he’ll still have a home with Berkeley Cat Records when they let him out. We are contractually obligated to release this so here it is, as delivered, with Din’s liner notes below. NSFW. NSF anywhere. God help us.

-the Berkeley Cat Records Board Of Inquiry

Liner notes from Eric Din:

I barfed this up when certain pundits and politicians started squealing about “communism” in February of 2020 for the love of Barf. But it’s an all-purpose Barf you can use for all Barf occasions. Plop the link to Barf on threads where you want to Barf. Gift Barf to your loved ones and blowhard uncles. Shannon Wheeler just barfed up the cover art, featuring his iconic Too Much Coffee Man, pondering the nature of Barf. I recorded Barf on my iPhone using the standard Voice Memo app and barfed it up to BandCamp within a minute of barfing. There are no effects, there was no mix, no mastering. The Barf is pure and unadulterated, uncorrupted, organic Barf. Please barf responsibly.

lyrics

Barf
Barf
Barf

Barf
Barf
Barf

Barf
Barf
Barf

Barf
Barf
Barf

Barf Barf
Barf
Vomit
Barf
Throw-up
Barf
Explosive diarrhea

Barf
Barf
Barf

Barf
Barf

Barf
Seething pustulent boils

Barf
Barf
Barf

It’s very upsetting

Barf
Barf
Barf

And we didn’t even bother to tune the guitar
Barf
Because why would you even?
What the fuck is the meaning of it all?

Barf
Barf
Barf

Barf
Barf
Barf

Barf on the train, in a pickup truck,
Barf anywhere you’re outta luck because

Barf

All together now

Barf
Barf
Barf

credits

released February 13, 2020
Eric Din on Guitar, Vocals, and Barf
Coffee Machine Beeping by Coffee Machine
Artwork by Shannon Wheeler

© 2020 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI

Berkeley Cat Records is pleased as punch to release this single from Eric Din. Din calls it his “love song to Mother Earth,” and the track features the great Michael Urbano on drums.

I stand in awe of she,
I like her gravity,
She make the rivers flow,
And the rain and snow,
She make the sun shine,
She make the wind blow,
She make the sky blue,
She make the critters go,

She make everything glow,
Pretty flowers bloom,
Flying through the space,
Dancin’ with the moon,
She’s all we ever know’d,
She spin around like so,
If you’re unkind to her,
It is to your doom,

She’s always workin’,
Always at play,
It’s always night,
And always day,
Don’t need to talk,
I am made of ears,
I know she’s everything,
I want to hear, now,

All I wanna do
Is be around when
She want someone
To hang around when
Always is only for a moment
I wont bring you down

She gave us all her blessings,
She gave us life,
But if let we her down,
We’re all going to die, so,
I sign all the petitions,
I write my politicians,
I tell them my positions,
Tell them what is so, cos,

The evil corporations,
Want to destroy the nations,
And only we the people can
Stop their evil missions,
Let’s put our best and brightest
Back at the grown-ups table,
Stop the madness, save the world,
Yeah, and free the people

All I wanna do
Is be around when
She want someone
To hang around when
Always is only for a moment
I wont bring you down

Always only for a moment
Always only for a moment
Always only for a moment yeah

Always only for a moment
Always only for a moment
Always only for a moment yeah

© 2018 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music / BMI

released July 4, 2018
Guitars, Bass, and Vocals – Eric Din
Drums – Michael Urbano

Produced by Eric Din
Recorded and mixed by Michael Rosen at East Bay Recorders
Mastered by Myles Boisen

Artwork by Shannon Wheeler

℗ Berkeley Cat Records