Kissing Distance, by The Six Parts Seven/Goodmorning Valentine

Kissing Distance

by The Six Parts Seven/Goodmorning Valentine

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1.	Instrumental 1 01:10	buy track
2.	Meditation in D 04:43	buy track
3.	Drunk From The Bottle 03:10	buy track
4.	Red Lights 04:23	buy track
5.	Instrumental 2 03:05	buy track
6.	Winter’s Early Moon (Part 1) 02:07	buy track
7.	Standing In Her Raincoat 03:25	buy track
8.	12 Hours 03:26	buy track
9.	Lonely Daughter 04:31	buy track
10.	Winters’s Early Moon (Part 2) 02:38	buy track

about

It was winter. Six Parts Seven had returned to Ohio after touring out to Washington State, to record Casually Smashed to Pieces.

There was down time between the recording and the actual release of that album in January 2007, and we were rehearsing, playing local shows, and collaborating, with most of us involved in other projects to keep the momentum going (Mike w/ Talons, Al w/ Beaten Awake), but the one we all came together over was recording an album with Joey Beltram, the songwriter behind Goodmorning Valentine, a local band we shared players with, a band we deeply admired.

The music on Kissing Distance came together over two weekend days. There were a lot of people around; 6P7 and GMV players coming and going from the Saint Ledger House. There were handles of whiskey, there was weed, stacks of Marlboro Reds for the ones still dragging butts. We all went 'dancing' at Thursday's, in Akron, Ohio, on Saturday night. Not sure how we were productive the following day. Chalk that one up to relative youth. Over those two days, songs were cut without any prior rehearsal time. None of us remember how the idea came up. In hindsight, it seems inevitable.

The first song on the album, "Mediation in D," had been written a couple of years before, and was the decided spark that set the fire blazing: for both bands, this song was the starting point, an invitation to take things further, to expand, combining players from both bands, our 'toolbox' had increased in size from a single hammer to a toolbox. Everything came easily at this point.

"Drunk from the Bottle," is the first of the one-take/one mic songs: an SM58 used for both vocal and guitar, making it impossible to over-think anything: You got the version, or you did not, that simple.

"Instrumental #2," is the last full/core band recording by Six Parts Seven. The first piece in our catalog written/arranged by Tim Gerak. This song would have been developed on our follow-up to Casually Smashed to Pieces. Alas, an album never came to be. The ache in this is real. It's there in the bass guitar, tuned high and open, played with a slide, and utilizing one of Jamie Stillman's pre- Earthquaker Devices fuzz pedals.

"Lonely Daughter," is another one-take/one-mic song, notable for the lead-guitar, played by James Matthew Haas, who overdubbed his part, months later, standing alone on the deck at Joey's folks place, playing to the moonlight, making magic...

credits

released February 16, 2024

Written & Performed by Six Parts Seven/Goodmorning Valentine
Joseph Allen Beltram - vocals, acoustic guitar, synth
Allen Karpinski - electric guitar, slide, mid-range bass
Tim Gerak - electric guitar
Elizabeth Williams - rhodes piano, cello, bass guitar
Matt Haas - electric guitar
Mike Tolan - bass guitar, electric guitar
Jay Karpinski - drums

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Jake Trombetta - lap steel guitar
Sommer Tolan - vocal

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