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Broken Media

from Array by Max Kutner

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Written on January 14, 2018.

This was sort of inspired by an interview of Joe Walsh that I took in the night before where he discussed the impact of social media and networking sites and technology on releasing and producing music. He had also discussed how he recorded the guitar of "Funk 49" using only a Telecaster running directly into a 5-watt champ which inspired me to see what I could with just my guitar/amp.

The sentiment in the lyrics reveal more than a bit about my socio-political personality and I felt sort of a dry delivery a la Lou Reed or Chrissy Hynde was appropriate for carrying that across.

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I shrink before my media
Like a hair that gets close to an open flame.
Humbled by the prophets
Delivering news that always seems the same.
A lingering flavor of futility
Colors every effort to resist
Still, the only thing to do
Is smash these things to little bits

I scream at broken media
Like a cell deprived of nutrients.
Hijacked by entertainment peddlers
Fluent only in fleeting internet trends.
Trying my best to avoid being blunted
By the hammering assault of big TV.
This computer offers more but feels no better.
Go outside! The experience is still free.

The veneer is not the same thing as the thing.
These people would have you think that it was.
They overwhelm with options so you can choose
Some representation of a thing that once was.
Virtual reality is not virtuous at all.
It's not reality and that's a fact.
My friends, stay the course. Refuse to be defeated
Or broken media will emerge intact.

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from Array, released February 1, 2018
I used my 2015 Tadic electric guitar and played directly into the dirty channel of my Fender Deluxe amp. This was recorded first and then I laid down vocals over the guitar.

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Max Kutner New York, New York

Max Kutner is a guitarist/composer currently based in Brookyln, NY.

Max has previously performed and/or recorded with the Magic Band (Captain Beefheart), Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ulrich Krieger, Alphonso Johnson, Don Preston, Lili Haydn, Oingo Boingo and many others. ... more

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