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This is the first single from the new album. "You're Killing Me Fresno".

After I broke my mind making the movie to accompany the album, “The Future Is Fresno”, I had to do something else. After that giant production, I wanted to return to live based recording, as that has an immediacy and reality to it that better showcases what I attempt to do. I also wanted to spend time with the keyboard, as I’ve never really played the keyboard. That turned from learning some basic things into a giant songwriting production, incorporating all of the sounds I found.
I wrestled with my ineptitude, versus wanting to make a live based album, and went with ineptitude, AND doing the live based album.
So, I did the E-drums with my foot pedals, as I do live, and sang and played keyboard with MainStage-a live based performance program- patches strung together in scene dependent splendor, at the push of a button. You just push a button!
I also incorporated lots of samples that I created from sounds found online at Freesound.org, and Arturia brand software donated by Frank Giordano.
Auditioning thousands of sounds takes a lot of time. Computers are frustrating.

These performances were all captured live, with no “overdubs”, and were edited for best performances as needed. I kept performances for their life and vitality, often embedded with “errors”, which keeps the raw element intact. It is joyously not perfect. I feel the “errors” give it a humanity that big studio projects are often stripped of.
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NERD ZONE:
There are no loops or click tracks. Samples were played from keys, with and without pitches.
I used multiple drum trigger inputs with varying thresholds-on the same instrument/sounds- for depth and variation in amplitude.
2 different kicks, 2 different snares. 3 pedals, played with one foot.
All of the keyboard sounds and relative volumes and panning were premixed, and recorded as two stereo tracks. Vocal effects were added in the post-mix, and were not done live, only so that they would still be mixable later.
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“You’re Killing Me Fresno” is meant to be as dark as it is, but hopefully in a funny, cheerful, “Hey, your foot is on fire” kind of way. I also had no regard for making the songs short.

lyrics

7-11 Sushi
Cruisin in my Camaro
Got the munchies after smokin some pot
So it was 7-Eleven or Arby's when I pulled into the parking lot
Now 7-Eleven has Red Bull but Arby's has...
So it was looking like 7-Eleven when some dude almost hit my Camaro
And he was the driver of the sushi company that delivered to the store
And he was all Sweet Trans Am! Sorry I almost hit you there bro!
And I was all, no worries dude, but it's actually a Camaro, though
And he told me he was scared out of his mind
And he didn't know what to do
Because his boss knew that he knew
They just made the stuff out of road goo
Anything they could find
It was a multi million dollar enterprind
Mislabeling rancid possum
Chilled and finely sliced everyone thought it was....delicious
No one ever became suspicious
Same thing with the raccoon
If you usually don't eat them raw you'd never even no........tice
Now that's in Fresno
In other places they use actual fish
In fact they're emptying out the ocean
To fill demands for this delicious dish
"OH GOD I LOVE THE OCEAN!
I JUST WANNA EAT THE ENTIRE THING!"
Can't get enough of sushi
And all the wasabi you can bring
But
(Chorus)
7-11 Sushi?
Now you've jumped the shark
Burning down the ocean
Full ignition from the spark
Now it's a Sushi inferno
It's a seafood conflagration
A convenience store apocalypse
It's a messed up situation
Now you can see the exact second the whole situation went South
It's like you people can't be happy till the whole thing's in your mouth
What used to be something special, or normal if you're Japanese
Turned to a worldwide craze nothing could appease
Now you buy some for the baby, get some extra for the dog and cat
Insatiability for sushi unsustainable at that
Unsustainable at
Unsustainable
Unsustain
Unsus
7-11 Sushi sounds like champagne in jail
You came for gas and scratchers, now you're going all upscale?
You seem more like a corn dog person, stick with what you know
That sushi'd make your butt look fat, get your Slurpee and go
( L side men 7/8 ) (R side men 11/8)
(L side ladies 7/8) ( R side ladies 11/8
Seven eleven Sushi?
The whole concept seems pretty douchey
Whaddya gonna do?
Eat it in the parking lot as you sit and idle endlessly in your car?
No clear line of distinction
From our own path to extinction
At least the fish are somewhat smart enough to not do it to themselves
To themselves, to themsayee-elves, to themsayee-elves, etc
( Stop extincting yourselves!)
(Chorus)
So goes the ocean, so goes you
So goes 7-11, and all the sushi too
So goes humanity, after all we've been through
So goes the planet for the profits of a few
So go share values of The Southland Corporation
So go the Big Gulp, and the self serve nacho station
So goes the chili dog court and the worlds "worst ever" coffee
So go the Slurpees and the antique pornography....
Analog pornography.....
Acoustic pornography......
Hey! "Do you guys like fish sticks?
You must be a gay fish."

credits

from You​’​re Killing Me Fresno, track released July 1, 2023
BKF:
Keyboard, Samples, E-drum Foot Pedals, Voice, Song

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Brian Kenney Fresno Fresno, California

My name is Brian Kenney Fresno, and I have this super fun solo ROCK show
where I sing modern TALES of urban legends and epics of the absurd- in a
sing along format, mostly about Fresno Ca, my home town, and everytime I say
"Fresno", everybody eats the raisins and says "WHOOO!" in a group
experience.
It's really fun!
Everybody laughs a lot! ... more

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