Volcano Voices by music: Jerry Gordon // voices: Various Volcanos

In January of 2025, I released an album called Machine Mountain.
https://moontriangle.bandcamp.com/album/machine-mountain

In editing the music for Machine Mountain -- in particular the track Serene Monsters -- I felt that it would be nice to have voices added by some of the poets, rappers and singers I know. So, when that album finished, I invited Pleks Ortem, Guadalupe Galván , Warren Decker and Kaori Yoshikawa to write/record their voices for Serene Monsters. They did.

At that point, I got the idea to open the invite up to other voices and other Machine Mountain track. Soon, many people expressed interest. Then, many of those people chose Machine Mountain tracks, created texts and kindly gave me their recorded voices.

It has been wonderful to see/hear how writers have reshaped the energies of the music by realizing and adding their thoughts. Words have a certain power that is different than music. Words have an ability to guide a distinctly thought-focused passage through the space of time when they are appearing. Words occupy thought in a way that is hard to avoid -- at least for me. I love that way that words can drive an emotion and a meaning, building and shifting nuances as the space of syllables, phrases, sentences and ideas unfold. I love how words can explore and alter a mood or energy so profoundly. Words make unique worlds.

And, so, I decided to continue the Volcanic theme that started with Machine Mountain, because each of these writers on Volcano Voices is remaking the landscape of the music as their words and thought burn and flow.

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