Brendan Murray - Tangerine Tree [mp3]
An abandoned sentence lingers on the page, erased and scratched out it echoes in the repeating motif of a Brendan Murray guitar riff. A fractal repeating, each second growing larger and larger until a moment later, the sentence deletes. The sentence is lost for the time being but it repeats. The deleted sentence repeats at the tail end of the maddening composition repeating and repeating the sentence begins and ends, starts with a stop and dies. In resurrection it builds in strength, repeating always with a repeat. The sentence dies a death and repeats resurrection dead and repeating. I listen for a moment to the drone drifting behind the repeat. I listen closely to Brendan Murray and try to write the sentence again and it repeats. I think to myself about the repeat, “I know this sentence and how it goes after that,” I think, I write the sentence out and it repeats. I write the next sentence and again it repeats. The same sentence written under twenty different mindsets repeated it repeats. “I have a story to tell,” I say I repeat. I can’t tell the story it just keeps repeating and it repeats. I want to write the tale of the Montgomery Park parking garage but it repeats. The same sentence it repeats, in sync with the repeat of a rather lovely guitar riff. It merely tickled before, the rip of a guitar but now it repeats. I write my sentences on a sheet of paper, repeating the motions. I listen more closely in my headphones to the repeat. I listen more closely to the drone but the guitar repeats. It keeps repeating and I try to tell my story again but it just keeps repeating repeats. The story is a repeat. The story just repeats. These are the risks with a repeat. The song it repeats and soon I find a line repeating into the ether. There’s a story about the Montgomery Park parking garage in PDX but the sentence just keeps repeating, a repeat of a repeat of a repeat of a repeat. Repeating with the song within the song it repeats within the song a repeat. I am repeating myself in this story too, repeating repeat* endlessly until I stop. Stop.
Brendan Murray is a rhythm and blues band from Boston. The featured song is from the album Brendan Murray. Purchase the music at Intransitive Records | Sedimental Records | eMusic.
