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I Must Be Doing Something Wrong (Or Something Right Backwards)

from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​the Weird Ones by Walter Ehresman

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From the Walter Ehresman album "Le Cafard" (2001).

Download the whole album here: walterehresman.bandcamp.com/album/le-cafard

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt40nlmVXyI

Ehresman remembers: "I was inspired to try something 'out there' after reading an article about John Zorn and the very experimental way he worked with musicians in the studios of NYC. I was listening to a lot of the Knitting Factory musicians at the time. This was me consciously trying to break out of my old musical patterns and try something new."

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I Must Be Doing Something Wrong (Or Something Right Backwards)
(© 2000 Walter Ehresman)

Communication’s lacking;
This planet doesn’t feel right to me
(or maybe it’s just the people--I like the animals just fine).
My brain it won’t stop racking (I hear some people sleep);
I must be doing something wrong, or something right backwards.

Is it moral evolution?
Or an act of self-delusion?
Or am I cruisin’ for contusion?
Time-travel posse retribution?

Some people say you gotta be Downtown to play this shit;
Hell, I’ve never even been there!
I’m rooted in this backwards place;
Is it “splendid isolation,”
or just some guy with no friends?
I must be doing something wrong,
or something right backwards.

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from The Best of​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​the Weird Ones, released October 31, 2017
Walter Ehresman: vocals, keyboards, electric solidbody oud, electronic drum kit, dumbek, chopstick bongos, sampling, groove box programming.

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Walter Ehresman San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more

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