Michael James Tapscott
The Only Dance There Is
Upon reaching the summer of my years, the time for watering and weeding, I’d determined that breaking bad habits required an equal or greater set of rigorous good habits. So I woke up at 5:30 in the morning to begin a somewhat unwavering schedule of TM, yoga, daily reading, tending to the yard, working on music, drinking half-caf, general monetary laboring, TM again, cooking dinner, rinsing, repeating. Another band was finished, friends were caravaning out of town, and the old gears of life had been belayed, but I found small joys in the old and new; harmonizing with myself, nylon string guitars and synthesizers, Being Ram Dass and John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens, low-stakes instrumentals, tambourines, hand claps and pianos. The Only Dance There Is was recorded from late 2020 to early 2021 at my apartment in Oakland.
Tracklist:
What Used To Be A Pine Forest
Don’t Reveal The Ending
Fortune Bay
The Forced Labor Camp
Michael’s 19th Nervous Breakdown
Conrad
Baba Ram Dass
Aerotropolis
December 33rd
Contributors: Jeff Moller, Raphi Gottesman, Yea-Ming Chen, Isaac Edwards, Andrew Kenower, Bob Drake
2021, self-released
Format: Digital