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Festiva Maxima

from Know You're Wild

October 31st, 2015
10 tracks
25:14
Know You're Wild
Know You're Wild
Festiva Maxima
0:00
2:58
Festiva Maxima
Walking Bombs
She don't need rescuing/she'll do it herself and I'm no punching bag...not here for my health but you captured my attention, my faith in the human race when you walked in the room.
3:13

The debut Walking Bombs album turns 10 years old in October of 2025 and was never mastered until now. I figured I should fix that. Hope you’ll enjoy it. It is the most distilled essence of the project…the initial steps that made me brave enough to “go solo”. The two songs with the I Multiply kids are literally the first tunes I wrote for this project.

Recorded hot on the heels of the passing of my father amidst a very emotional time in Saugerties, NY… back when I showed my Beatles and Nirvana influences a lil more. The title track is still by far one of my favorite songs to play live, when I ever actually play live anymore (USX fans will want to check out Nate Hall’s absolutely scorching guest solo).

Cover photo is my kid sister Cambria and I jumping off our old house porch from where we grew up as kids in Shokan, NY.

PMA-

MYE. (Christmas, 2024)

Credits

Jay Andersen (Surmiser): Engineer, drums, bass, guitar, oscillator pedal, more.
Morgan Ywain Evans: Vocals, drums, guitar, bass
Grace Moore: Violins on "wilt" and "festiva maxima", violins and lady vocals on title track
Ashley Moe (I Multiply): co-vocals on "Anticipation of Falling", backups on "+ Side (for eos)"
Paul Newman (I Multiply): A million instruments on "Anticipation Of Falling"
Nate Hall (USX/Uktena): solo on title track + digitech whammy power
David Andersen (The Warp/The Weft): Stand up bass on "wilt" and "festiva maxima"
Sean Paul Pillsworth (Nightmares For A Week): guitar on festiva maxima and guitar and vocal tracking on "wilt" and "festiva maxima"
Flourish performed the music for "Driving Sawkill".

Mixed by Jay Andersen