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Fire

from Fire by Matthew Daher

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Single from the upcoming full length album "The Wisdom to Know the Difference Vol. I"

"The Wisdom to Know the Difference" is Matthew Daher’s electroacoustic solo project exploring the limits and possibilities of control and agency on both a sonic and spiritual level. Using Ableton Live, contact mic drum triggers, and samplers, Daher processes acoustic drums and vocals, blends them with lush textures, and triggers other sonic events from the drumkit at varying degrees of randomness in song-structured webs of intended and unintended sonic consequences.

"Fire" is a tongue-in-cheek meditation on social anxiety, the power our self-depricating thoughts can have over us, and the power we can have over our self-depricating thoughts.

lyrics

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Lyrics:

My faux pas impressed
In concrete hardened in my chest
This omen’s authorship is
Scaly
Certain
Silent Screaming
All of these eyes are tugging on my inner tides
Oh, let me sweep your ocean floor!
I swear I’m
Worth the waste
Of perfectly unsoiled space
Your brain is barking:
“Squandered bones and bread and benedictions”
I have no cross examination
For your thoughts
I stuffed my court file full of tape loop nooses

There is a fire
It says I’m

It says I’m the hair that’s swimming in your soup
And if I’m the pebble gnawing at your heel inside your shoe
Then why are these smiles
All beaming at my inner child
“Pumpkin, don’t you step outside they will burn you
And a poncho for your pouring blessings
Lest they wet your skin
No bittersweet goodbyes
For parting guests you don’t let it”
Is there some cross examination
For these thoughts
A holographic hammer smash
To these broken fuses

Cuz there is a fire
It says I’m not anything
There is a fire
It’s sorry for everything
There is a fire
It doesn’t mean anything
At all
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credits

from Fire, track released April 12, 2024
Music Credits:

All music performed, composed, produced by Matthew Daher

Recorded by Matthew Daher at Spread Art and various bathrooms and basements in Detroit, MI
Mixed by Matthew Daher
Mastering by Shiva Shahmir
Album Artwork by Matthew Daher and Maddy Rager

Thanks to
Shiva Shahmir for your endless technical, emotional, moral support
Spread Art for accessible studio space that made developing this music possible
Scott Murphy at Atonuv, Josef Deas at Big Sky, Salar Ansari at Feeder Loft for feedback in the mixing process

Video credits:

Video Written, Directed & Produced by Thank You So Much For Coming (Maddy Rager and Scott Crandall) and Matthew Daher

Filming and Editing by Zachary Zweiffler
Lighting by Nick Shefeult
Shame Noodle Fabrication: Maddy Rager

Market Shoppers: Ava Ansari, Billy Mark, Jon Chapdelaine, Salar Ansari, Krystin Brennan
Amateur Local Dingus, News Anchor, District Judge, Scientist: Matthew Daher
Field Reporter: Ben Beutel-Gunn
Expert Cereologist: Maddy Rager
Prosecutor: Shiva Shahmir
Defense Attorney: Alborz Shahmir-Daher
Bail Bondsman: Scott Crandall
Disgusted Tinder Date: Zachary Zweiffler

Special Thanks to:
Marcus Market
Pie Sci Pizza
Eightfold Collective
CMNTV
Lager House

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Matthew Daher Detroit, Michigan

Detroit-based artist Matthew Daher’s creative work is an exploration of mental health, empathy, spirituality and masculinity. His practice is informed by 17 years of experimentation in ambient, electroacoustic, jazz, hip-hop, and folk music, meditation practice, and creative movement practices. ... more

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