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⠗⠝⠮⠚⠙⠈⠄⠂⠢⠡⠡⠡⠁⠂⠅⠁⠂⠅⠁⠂⠐⠐⠐ ⠿⠞⠷⠻⠽⠽⠝⠞⠗⠯⠇⠉⠅⠂⠢⠮⠳⠝⠮⠫⠫⠳⠝⠮⠳⠕⠯⠺⠪⠗⠗⠝⠎⠗⠝⠮
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⠐⠐⠐⠨⠐⠈⠜⠮⠳⠝⠮⠳⠕⠯⠮⠫⠇⠯⠺⠪⠡⠳⠝⠮⠷⠗⠿⠯⠿⠽⠯⠟⠾⠯⠗⠗⠳⠝⠵⠝⠮⠳⠝⠮⠫⠳⠝⠚⠈⠐⠨⠐⠨⠐⠐⠨⠈⠂⠂⠂
⠐⠐⠐⠜⠼⠕⠗⠳⠝⠮⠺⠪⠞⠕⠧⠳⠕⠗⠝⠡⠐⠉⠌⠡⠙⠽⠽⠽⠽⠽⠳⠯⠟⠷⠹⠕⠯⠺⠕⠯⠳⠝⠮⠳⠡⠁⠂⠅⠢⠨⠈⠂⠡⠐⠤⠥⠲⠲⠲⠝
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⠗⠵⠳⠝⠮⠳⠝⠮⠫⠊⠐⠐⠄⠕⠐⠡⠊⠨⠤⠡⠁⠯⠳⠹⠪⠮⠯⠟⠞⠯⠯⠯⠷⠯⠫⠞⠮⠺⠑⠡⠐⠐⠄⠅⠅⠥⠳⠝⠮⠳⠝⠮⠳⠕⠁⠂⠂⠂⠊⠌
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⠨⠈⠂⠂⠅⠂⠂⠅⠐⠐⠈⠩⠓⠝⠮⠳⠽⠽⠺⠯⠻⠮⠗⠧⠔⠐⠈⠄⠂⠔⠐⠨⠈⠤⠦⠶⠯⠗⠯⠿⠽⠾⠯⠯⠓⠁⠖⠵⠓⠐⠨⠠⠑⠠⠞⠮⠫⠺⠜⠮
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⠐⠠⠂⠡⠺⠜⠮⠺⠪⠯⠣⠡⠨⠔ ⠂⠂⠅⠑⠨⠐⠠⠉⠉⠋⠓⠋⠻⠽⠗⠯⠛⠙⠛⠉⠅⠡ ⠂⠌⠨⠔⠞⠿⠽⠻⠊⠄⠑⠨⠐⠜⠍⠋⠄⠑⠨⠐⠨⠐
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⠯⠮⠳⠝⠮⠳⠹⠝⠮⠺⠪⠮⠋⠲⠁⠂⠂⠂⠙⠺⠽⠽⠝⠗⠗⠵⠗⠟⠞⠽⠯⠟⠯⠷⠟⠯⠷⠿⠟⠯⠿⠙⠅⠅⠐⠐⠄⠂⠂⠡⠁⠦⠲⠝⠮⠁⠌⠐⠨⠈
⠯⠳⠝⠮⠫⠺⠜⠝⠊⠐⠠⠁⠂⠌⠻⠦⠔⠐⠠⠑⠐⠈⠙⠊⠯⠷⠻⠺⠗⠿⠳⠿⠽⠞⠯⠓⠋⠍⠡ ⠂⠅⠡⠁⠂⠂⠡⠔⠖⠝⠮⠳⠕⠗⠁⠅⠂⠂⠌⠪
⠯⠺⠪⠧⠓⠁⠢⠨⠐⠐⠐⠔⠮⠣⠻⠽⠞⠷⠦⠆⠨⠐⠠⠡⠁⠂⠡⠠⠠⠠⠐ ⠢⠨⠨⠐⠠⠁⠅⠂⠅⠂⠰⠴⠖⠿⠝⠽⠜⠮⠺⠵⠹⠅⠨ ⠂⠅⠢⠈
⠯⠺⠊⠐⠐⠐⠨⠈⠤⠺⠕⠞⠊⠄⠸⠷⠽⠯⠟⠞⠽⠻⠖⠮⠤⠂⠌⠄⠑⠨ ⠂⠌⠄⠅⠂⠬⠬⠶⠾⠇⠸⠯⠳⠽⠳⠯⠮⠳⠳⠹⠊⠩⠠⠁⠂⠂⠅⠅⠂
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⠈⠌⠐⠄⠂⠱⠕⠯⠳⠹⠪⠳⠳⠐⠈⠌⠠⠉⠚⠕⠿⠻⠞⠿⠽⠾⠻⠽⠟⠾⠽⠷⠟⠿⠺⠮⠫⠗⠯⠟⠗⠙⠉⠡ ⠂⠂⠂⠅⠐⠄⠅⠂⠐ ⠂⠔⠬⠲⠳
⠈⠐⠨⠈⠰⠕⠗⠝⠵⠝⠮⠺⠪⠞⠷⠥⠁⠂⠌⠐⠠⠈⠅⠙⠛⠚⠙⠚⠙⠚⠛⠓⠛⠓⠉⠡⠁⠂⠐⠨⠈⠄⠌⠌⠐ ⠂⠂⠂⠂⠬⠔⠅⠄⠂⠄⠗⠽⠪⠳
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        1. Excelsior                    6. Light
        2. Catch the Breeze             7. Teddy Bear
        3. Ignited                      8. Outro
        4. Holding On                   9. Blue Waters
        5. Sunrise                     10. Godspeed
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Music by Glider (Brian, Rory, Christopher, Nate)
Mixed by Rory and Glider
Mastered by Rory
Original art by Farah Mohiuddin
Ascii note layout by Brian
Originally released Feb, 13 2013
Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered ~2008 - 2013
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This was the big one for me.  It remains,  even with its all
of its flaws,  one of the things I am  most proud of being a
part of.  I am writing this in 2020; 12 years after we began
writing this album. It feels like an eternity ago.  Rory and
I were living in a really  shitty apartment on the 2nd floor
of a place in Costa Mesa, CA. Our drummer had left to pursue
other projects after our first album.   We had recorded some
songs, sketches really, that eventually found their way onto
a "b-sides" collection.  We put an ad up on craigslist for a
drummer and met Christopher. We got on well and he was solid
and reliable.   Rory and I had been writing little pieces of
ideas for a bit and had recorded some of them.   We rented a
lockout in an industrial area of  Santa Ana so that we could
play whenever we wanted at whatever volume we liked. We took
a lot, but not nearly all,  of our gear there and started to
try out all sorts of ideas. Eventually we went into a studio
co-run  by  a  friend from  another band.  We recorded three
trakcs: Godspeed, Ignited, and Sunrise. We were not thrilled
with the way they came out.

So, we started re-recording at home in our apartment. Things
went much better. Christopher got an electronic drum kit and
we did all of the drums  with it and  a nice drum plugin for
the drum sounds.  Songs started  to come together  much more
quickly.  We were not playing shows with Glider at this time
at all,  but we all played in other projects too. We spent a
lot of time  rehearsing and  recording.  Kind of all  of our 
time not spent working shitty jobs (I delivered food and did
some part time work in an office, Rory also delivered food).

Eventually my  friend Nate  tracked some guitars  on Sunrise
and on Godspeed. We liked them, so he started learning parts
for other songs so that we could actually play them live. We
practiced for  months and  eventually booked  our first show
with this lineup. Nate and I both drank too much at the time
and Christopher and Rory did not drink at all. This, coupled
with some youthful attitudes caused some friction over time.
We played the show, opening for The Autumns. It was the best
live show I have ever played and I had sooooo much fun doing
it.  I  do not  remember the set list,  but I think  we only 
played songs from this album...  maybe one or two off of the
first album.  Not sure.  Anyway,  this new album was not out
yet when  we played the show.  In the weeks  and months that
followed things started to degrade as differences of opinion
cropped  up more  and more.  Rory eventually  moved up north
to be with the woman  who would later become his wife.  Nate
stayed awhile  longer and we  lived together  for a bit.  He
eventually  moved further north  with the woman  that became
his wife.  Christopher and I kept in touch from time to time
but eventually that dropped off.

Rory  and  I  had some beef over financial matters from both
Glider and the record label we had run for a number of years
prior.  Things werent great,  but we still wanted this thing
to get finished.  I flew up to Santa Cruz to help finish the
mixing (this is a few years after that initial show).  I did
some vocal overdubs  and  we mixed  a  good chunk of it.  It
would  be  years before it finally saw the light of day. The
hard drive the tracks were on eventually failed  and  all we
had were  the mixes  that had  been bounced out.  So that is
what  you  hear on the finished album.  The momentum  we had
had  with radio,  music press  (a favorable  comparrison  to
Mogwai in AP + good reviews), etc.  from the first album was
gone. We sold some copies, but mostly we just faded out.

It was a crazy time,  and one of my most creative,  but also
self-destructive.  Rory and I  have since  gotten back on ok
terms with each other,  though we dont talk too often.  Nate
and I talk  a  lot and if we ever end  up living in the same
area would  likely  start a band.  I  have  not  heard  from
Christopher in  many years,  but I hope he is doing well.  I
have  made a lot of music  and I dont  know if  others would
consider  this my  best or not,  but it is  the  music  that 
stands out  to me as special.  Probably because  of how much
we  all  put  into  it,  how  much  time  we  spent together
making it happen. It was a really special time.

For gear... we used all kinds of stuff. We used a Fernandez
strat copy, a  Fender strat, a Squire Cyclone, and a Fender
Telecaster for guitars.  I think the bass was an Ernie Ball
Music Man  Sterling.  For amps  we used a  Roland JC120,  a
Crate combo amp, a Vox combo amp,  and the bass used a head
and  cabinet  but  went  direct  out  from  the head into a
preamp of some form...  but I cannot remember  what it was.
Rory would probably know.  Everything  went into  Pro Tools
on the  Mac Mini  we had for our apartment studio.  We used
an ebow on some  of the guitars  (mostly Nate's parts)  and
a huge amount  of effects  pedals that  I wont  even try to
list.  A big part of the sound was a  BOSS RV-5  reverb and
a few delay pedals though.

My most  memorable moment  recording was when we were doing
the vocals for Holding On.  Toward the end after everything
has built  and is being  released  there  is a part  with a
bunch of screaming. It was recorded through guitar pickups.
There were no words for it, jsut sheer screaming. I started
screaming into the guitar, which was running through an amp
that had a mic on it, then jumped off the bed I was sitting
on and  slammed the  guitar into the  floor while screaming 
into it.  Apparently it was so loud and  blood curtling and
the thump  was so intense that  my neighbors rushed up from
the floor below certain that  someone  needed an ambulance.
They were cool about it though  (they  threw  loud  parties
and we never  complained,  so they didnt make a big deal of
the noise).

It was a crazy time,  and one of my most creative,  but also
self-destructive.  Rory and I  have since  gotten back on ok
terms with each other,  though we dont talk too often.  Nate
and I talk  a  lot and if we ever end  up living in the same
area would  likely  start a band.  I  have  not  heard  from
Christopher in  many years,  but I hope he is doing well.  I
have  made a lot of music  and I dont  know if  others would
consider  this my  best or not,  but it is  the  music  that 
stands out  to me as special.  Probably because  of how much
we  all  put  into  it,  how  much  time  we  spent together
making it happen. It was a really special time.

- Brian Evans, 21 May 2020

