Mental Maps by E.G. Phillips

This is a set of songs I've been working with Kenny Schick of Basement3Productions to help realize — he'd previously worked with me on my EP "Nashville Recordings, Vol.1.” Where as my previous album "Alien from an Alternate Earth" was backed with classic jazz stylings, this its folk rock cousin, with many of the tunes written as contemporaries to that batch. In some ways I consider consider them as volumes I and II of the same project.

The notion of the mental map has always intrigued me — that our subjective and fragmentary geographical knowledge effects how we interact with the world. As my geography professor explained, the reason that people don’t stray from the familiar paths they know when going somewhere is because there are vampires in those unknown areas.

E.G. Phillips ("too classic") comes from a country called the Midwest. He creates lyric driven songs with his own blend of whimsy and cinematic imagery to give wry takes madness of existence.

Call it jazz infused alternative Americana, "Bob Dylan with flatted fifths" or "lounge music that falls somewhere between Tom Waits and They Might Be Giants"

He has a fake band called "Ducks With Pants"

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