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Water Brothers Trust 2004​-​2012

by Doog

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    Here's a 2-hour anthology to chronicle one of the most interesting decade-long trips in Indiana's history. This compilation was carefully curated to showcase Doog's unique, consistent artistic voice and the staggeringly wide variety of ways he's chosen to express it. It's a great beginner's guide for the uninitiated to the fried, wonderful, and insanely talented and creative world of Doog, your new favorite dude. If you know him, then you know you need this. The packaging includes a beautiful seven page screen-printed rainbow-colored booklet that perfectly commemorates ten well spent years.

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1.
A Part I 09:22
2.
A Part II 12:56
3.
A Part III 07:40
4.
B Part I 12:13
5.
B Part II 08:00
6.
B Part III 09:59
7.
C Part I 09:49
8.
C Part II 10:13
9.
C Part III 10:51
10.
D Part I 09:56
11.
D Part II 10:39
12.
D Part III 08:15

about

Water Brothers Trust is an anthology of songs by Doog. The recordings presented are compiled by John Flannelly and Doog from various cassette tapes and CD-Rs they found lying around as well as some shit from Doog’s YouTube. This shit is as raw as Doog himself including many first takes and some improvisations. The sounds presented range from unsettling to beautiful and the energy from "don't wake the baby" to "blow the fucking roof off!" with lyrical content ranging from confessional to cutesy pie to devotional to wickedly humorous. Many faces/One Doog. Really though, this is simply pop music made by a severely chewed fry-daddy.

Doog's story is typical in a lot of ways. He made a bunch of shit up, he felt a lot of pain, he had a lot of fun, and he was destroyed by fire. This anthology includes the highlights: the thrilling parts, the interesting parts, and even some pleasant little kid shit.

Doog released hundreds of home recordings on tapes and CD-Rs from 1996-2004 sounding like a third rate Lou Barlow or Rick White moving through the anarcho-noise-dance-punk of his college group "...revel in the morning." Most of those sounds are lost.

The earliest recordings presented come from "Some Kind of Sex" which was released to CD-R in 2004 under his given name, Eric Alexander. These songs, recorded in Muncie, IN and engineered by Justin K. Prim, are his most hi fidelity and accessible recordings to date. Shortly after this release all of Doog's gear was stolen by a crackhead, his girlfriend moved thousands of miles away, and he had a complete breakdown. Following Justin's example he "renounced the material world." It was this vow, as practiced through the self-prescribed mantras "nothing matters, dude," "fuck it," and "do what you want," that prompted him to wander off into deep Bushwick in 2005 while on tour playing with Indiana psychedelic rock collective "Everything, Now!" under the direction of chief wizard and indie rock hero Crafty Jonson.

Doog stayed in New York for a few months. His personality was shaped during this time as he enjoyed being the nice, corn fed, mid-western boy playing acoustic Prince covers for trans people in queer bars, swapping stories with the crusties in Tompkins Square Park, and getting his mind blown by the weirdos at Halsey. He wandered around the east coast a bit eventually making his way back to Indiana to settle for a time with his brother Sonny Blood in Bloomington, IN where he co-founded the psyche-noise-freakout-rock collective Hot Fighter #1 with Sonny and Nathan W. Warrick.

Drawing inspiration equally from the heedless decadence of The Fugs, the sonic terrorism of local legends Hepatitis B Youth, the gospel according to Exuma I&II, and the fungus of the Hoosier Forests, Hot Fighter #1 sought the liberation of themselves and all beings through direct confrontation and annihilation of all aversions and attachments by any means necessary. Widely despised by those who weren’t in on it they forged a path, albeit not a very pleasant one, to some very interesting psychic and musical terrains. The bonds formed between the individuals of the collective in this exploration are still manifesting some of the sounds in the Bloomington underground music scene today.

It was in the midst of this excitement that Doog claimed to have a vision of Christ which led him to leave Bloomington for an extended spiritual retreat at the Omega Institute in upstate New York where he claimed to have been abducted by aliens, to have died, and to have had a number of other bizarre visions and experiences. Upon leaving the Omega Institute in the autumn of 2008 Doog toured constantly with Everything, Now! promoting their fifth album Spatially Severed to which he contributed some of his wankiest bass playing. He also released the Skunk Hole Split as Brother Dolphin on cassette with friend and frequent collaborator Normanoak. Then Doog kind of flipped out and disappeared.

After returning to the Omega Institute, flying to a distant island to live at an Ayahuasca church, and returning to Indiana to spend some time in the psych ward of the Bloomington Hospital, Doog spent a little more time living with his parents where he recorded the pathetic collection “You are the Song” as well as “An Impossible Darkness,” a series of six songs about Hell which is as laughable as it is genuinely frightening. An Impossible Darkness was released to cassette split with Hanz Bronz under the moniker Sir Deja Doog which roughly translates as “Lord of the Recurring Darkness,” a name given to him by his brother, Sonny Blood. Doog, that pathetic motherfucker, then languished for a few years in Bloomington, numb, dumb, and completely detached until he was awakened by the Occupy Wall Street meme in 2011.

Feeling that there was something on Earth that he needed to do Doog rushed off to New York City to assist with the encampment there. The personal power and deep sense of camaraderie he found in the uprising as well as the ideas he encountered inspired him to spend the next year and a half crisscrossing the country providing food assistance to large protests and writing many songs which can be found on the SirDejaDoog YouTube channel. The jerk off then returned to Bloomington where he persists in his fantasies by making music and videos only he enjoys while battling the tumor in his brain. #YOLO

credits

released August 1, 2013

Side A

G

Barbelith (excerpt)

SH

From a Bicycle

PP

Shape Your Mind

SKOS

Seeds of Prurience

YT

The Death of Sally from Death Valley live in Bubblegum Alley

PT

Dear Gear (I Like You Better When You’re Broken)

SH

Christmas 08 (excerpt)

G

You’re Gonna Find What You’re Looking For

ID

Above Your Head

PT

January

YT

He Didn’t Die

WK

Party Tonight (Feelin Alright)

YS

Emma’s Whispers

YT

I Don’t Make a Sound

Side B

BD

Sam Phillips Rising

SKOS

Stereo Love (excerpt)

SH

A Witch’s Intuition

YT

Hobosexual

MMS

California, Let’s Go

PP

Burn it Down

YT

Who Was the Cutie

PT

Sharlene

SH

Keep on Surfin

BD

I’m Ready (I Surrender)

SH

You are a Brilliant Shining Diamond

Side C

MMS

The Sound of an Empty Room

ID

Descending pt. 2

ID

An Impossible Darkness

HF

I Will Go

YT

Stigmata (The World Doesn’t Want Me)

JP

Time to Get Straight

SH

On Seeing Mother Skunk

BD

Cori

PP

I Play the Guitar (I Ain’t Got No Baby)

SKOS

505 (These are the Pants)

YT

Please Don’t Crush that Spider

Side D

YT

Chillin like a Reptilian

TY

The Vampire’s Orchard

BD

The Candle, The Clock, and the Cage

SKOS

Some Kind of Sex

JF

I Love my Friends pt. 2

YT

Daisy Dance live in Bubblegum Alley

YT

Rambler’s Curse

SKOS

For Love Lost in Time

G = The Green tape recorded by Doog in the spring of 2009 in the backyard of the Acid Clown House.
Falcon bones provided by Dens Ray Powell.

SH = The Skunk Hole split released to cassette in the summer of 2009 with Normanoak on the flip side.
Fiddle for “On Seeing Mother Skunk” performed by Nathan Warrick.

PP = Pathetic Prince recorded in the Oakland music complex in the summer of 2012. Thanks to Justin K.
Prim and Maria Yates for assistance.

SKOS = Some Kind of Sex recorded by Doog in 2004 and engineered by Justin K Prim. “For Love Lost in
Time” with drums by Nick Peterson and vocals by Katie Trees. Drums performed by Erick Sherman on
the title track.

YT = Ripped from YouTube.com/SirDejaDoog

PT = Practice tape from winter of 2012 for one off show with accompaniment by Boom Boom Fanny and
Bam Bam Flannelly.

ID = An Impossible Darkness recorded by Mike Notoro and facilitated by Hanz Bronz in the summer of
2010.

WK = Sir Deja Doog and the Wasted Knights recorded by John Dawson with guitar by Sonny Blood, bass
by Nathan W. Warrick, drums by Clarke Joyner.

YS = You Are the Song recorded by Doog in the spring of 2010.

BD = The Brother Dolphin Story recorded live at the Omega institute by Justin K. Prim on 9/28/08.

MMS = Recorded by Travis Harvey at the Midwest Music Summit in 2006 with drums by Mikey Hodges,
bass by Mike S, guitar by Sonny Blood, slide guitar by Nathan W. Warrick, and vox by Christopher
Mosson.

HF = Recorded by Haley Fohr in February 2011.

JP = Ripped from YouTube.com/ILostMaterialism

JF = Recorded late at night on John Flannelly’s phone just before this anthology was mixed.

Thanks to John Flannelly for doing this. Thanks to Tracey Trance for providing a sick tape machine and
inspiration. Thanks to all my family and friends. This anthology is dedicated in loving memory to my
father, Rick Alexander.

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