Mark Music by Mandate of Heaven

Beginning in 2009, the 11th (?) Mandate of Heaven record was recorded at More Sound Studios, with Greg Pier doing most of the engineering and tracking himself. Initial tracking was accidentally erased in May of 2010, resulting in a demoralized Pier starting over from scratch and a lengthy delay in completion of the album, exacerbated by Pier's decision in 2010 to return to school to become a paramedic. Many of the songs on this record exist in other forms on demos and other records. Pier began writing some of these songs, such as "if 20" and "Song of the Halfway Point" as far back as 1999. The production quality and performances are the best out of any MofH recording, reflecting months and months of careful tweaking of the mix and rearrangement of the songs themselves, as opposed to the raw, "lo-fi" approach used in previous recordings. John Hanus of ELEPHANT MOUNTAIN is featured playing slide guitar on a number of tracks.

Tracklist

1.	Baby Electron	4:17

2.	Bedroom in the Sky	3:50

3.	Scrapper's Blues	3:24

4.	High Dragonfly	5:18

5.	From The Center	3:52

6.	Cruel, Cruel Aristocrats	4:05

7.	if twenty	6:35

8.	Parable	4:41

9.	Riverbed	5:00

10.	Hang The Bottle From The Tree	3:08

11.	Song of the Halfway Point	3:47

Credits

released October 20, 2012

All songs written by Greg Pier except "Scrapper's Blues" music written by Greg Pier and Ethan Jenks.
Greg Pier plays guitar, sings, plays pedal steel, bass, plays drums on "High Dragonfly", plays percussion on "Parable"
Bob Kane plays drums on on all tracks except "High Dragonfly".
Chuck Gwynn plays bass on "Bedroom in the Sky"
John Hanus plays slide guitar solo on "Bedroom in the Sky" and "Cruel, Cruel Aristocrats".
Produced by Greg Pier and Jason Randall
Mixed by Jason Randall at More Sound Studios

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