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Permalink | Posted on Tuesday, March 5 at 2:03am
i got to see WHY? play last night—it was incredible. way too good. beautiful, inspiring, depressing, nostalgic, fantastic, ridiculous. they opened with the coolest arrangement of “Waterfalls” that i can imagine happening and i pretty much died. the one in this video is totally different, but it’s also rad, listen to it.
(also i ran into this guy there who said he heard about WHY? and was at the show because of the cover of “Simeon’s Dilemma” that i did. so that was pretty awesome. if you should happen to be reading this, thanks for saying hi!)
i’m assuming that anyone reading this either just saw or is already planning to go see them play if they’re touring anywhere near them, but, still: go see this band. they are the best.
-mat
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about:
Mat Vuksinich has been making music under the name The Sarcastic Dharma Society, both by himself and with the help of others, since 2003. They have released 5 albums, most recently "Sannyasa Songs (of Love)", a six song EP full of nostalgic minimalism and heartbreak, and "Other People's Songs (Volume One)", a collection of 10 covers, re-imagined versions of both well known and lesser known artists' songs. They can be found writing, recording, and regularly performing in the rainy city of Portland, Oregon.
"...some of the most delicate and honest songs you will ever hear"
"Vuksinich’s music, his wandering guitar pluckery, his emotionally-strained vocals, all a kind of raw honesty, an actual and accounted for integrity, that most modern music completely lacks."
"He makes his songs sound really good."
"Portland has become familiar with Vuksinich’s unabashedly frank, lovelorn lyrics and plucky guitar melodies that match his boyish exterior...the majority of songs appeal to the agonizing obsession of teenage love, but in a refreshingly candid and conversational way."
"It’s rare to find bands you would die to support, being ready to follow’em across the World for not particular reasons, if not for the love of their music and the vision of the World they fit in."
right now:
"Live (Volume Two: 2010-2012)"
01. What You Need
02. Empathy
03. 3am
04. Surrender To You
05. I'd Leave Me
06. Life In Moments
07. Never
08. Our Love
09. Crazy
10. This Fool
over the last few years i've written a set of ten songs that i want to make into a record that will probably be called "Empathy". it's sort of a concept album in that each of the songs is pretty much about the same things, but from different perspectives. in a very anticlimactic fashion, you can, right now, listen to live (mostly solo) versions of all of these songs, because i keep sort of halfway recording them at various shows that i've been playing. love, -mat
"Sannyasa Songs (of Love)"
a six song EP full of nostalgic minimalism and heartbreak. tiny songs for people of all sizes.
"Other People's Songs (Volume One)"
a collection of 10 covers, reimagined versions of both well known and lesser known artists' songs.
"This Is Me With A Piano And A Lot Of Love"
a small EP of previously released songs, rearranged for piano.
coming soon:
"Empathy"
10 songs about the love, regret, heartbreak, hope, and crushing sadness inside of us that we obsess over, while overlooking in others.
"Sannyasa Songs (of Death)"
following "Sannyasa Songs (of Love)", four song EP of orchestrated pop songs recorded between 2009 and 2012.
"Other People's Songs (Volume Two)"
followup to Volume One, second set of 10 cover songs.
"Duets With My Dad"
album of instrumental duets (guitar/mandolin) that i wrote/recorded with my dad.
