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Mystery Terrain

by Adam Hill

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Canon City Sun 02:09
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Roane Mountain 02:08
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Glitchy Bitchy 02:59
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Trust the Satellites 02:48
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Down the Old Road 03:04
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I Saw Your Passport 03:30
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Delta Orthodox 01:47
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Mystery Terrain 02:18
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Far to Fall 02:40
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Set Myself on Fire 02:48
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Wanderlust 03:17
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about

This record is called Mystery Terrain. The title takes its cue from Junior Parker’s Mystery Train from 1953, which was later covered by Elvis Presley.
I keep trying to explain why I made this record and I end up writing a memoir. I want to let you know I’d be a fry cook if I had the knees. I want you to know I worked hard at furniture store jobs through my twenties and had no time off, and no sick days. I wrote a novel. It wasn’t a lot of fun to do and it sold less copies than I planned. I played rock n roll on nights and weekends for twenty years.
But that’s all irrelevant. I decided to write songs on the banjo to avoid writing a book in 2020. I went to sing lyrics, I found that at forty seven my voice has let me down, and lyrics have left me.
I had no conviction for the songs.

Was this my welcome to middle age? What do I want with misery to have conviction?

I don’t have a lot to say anymore. I’m married and in love. I have children and a job that occupies my mind. I want to express a lot of anxiety and despair but the only resolution for them that makes sense anymore is the search for transcendence. I have a friend that said he only likes to listen to instrumental jazz because he doesn’t have room in his head for all the things lyrics bring. I have another friend that listens to ambient and classical for the same reason. I was talking to a musician I know on Instagram, and I’m paraphrasing but essentially she felt like there is so much noise in the world, so many things being said, that at this point, making sounds is the most satisfying. All of these things resonate.
I don’t have the voice for the types of lyrics I can write. I can’t write the types of lyrics I have a voice for anymore. Something had to give. So I moved forward.


What remained was that I wanted to make sounds with my guitar. I feel like I have always worked with my guitar. I let it decide often. I try to get out of its way. Almost all of these songs originated on the banjo tuned to open G.
I used these guitar pieces as the framing to put walls up. Then we nailed things to it.I hope that you enjoy these rooms that came from that work.

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released March 15, 2022

All songs composed and played by Adam Hill
Guitars, noises, sounds, beats, and by Adam Hill

Upright bass on Wanderlust by Mark Robertson
Mixing by Mark Robertson
Mastering by LANDR

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