Released! Andrew’s album, Songs from Bubbly Creek, is available for streaming and purchase today! Stay tuned for news about an album launch/Alaska Tapes show in the very near future. Andrew wrote this about the album and origin of the name: Supposedly it still bubbles today. Stockyards in the early 1900s used Bubbly Creek as a home for the blood, for the entrails, and diseased carcasses of the pigs, cows, and other animals that came their way during the glory days of the meatpacking industry…When rains overwhelm the sewage system, the water district dumps untreated human excrement into the Chicago River and the creek. It is more of a living history.  All interest in the subject escapes on the hot summer days when the wind blows west, and the all-too-real ghosts of the animal carcass’ stench fills the air of McKinley Park. On such days, it is advisable to stay home and read a book. or knit a sweater. or play with your cute baby. or write songs… The beauty of song and creativity is one does not have to be the stranger who gathers the filth to make a product - one is merely influenced and then inspired. As Saul Williams states on the classic ‘Twice The First Time,’ “we drum the essence of creation from city slums.” Such is the way with Songs from Bubbly Creek. Where the stench is turned into reflections on other places - of lakes, of rivers! - and of gratitude. Gratitude for the cicadas calling and the crowded streets and the brownish tint of the majestic skyline and even for the insufferable stench. The goddam stench, of the goddam slaughtered animals, that still produces bubbles - of poisoned flesh, of methane, of inspiration….credits
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Released! Andrew’s album, Songs from Bubbly Creek, is available for streaming and purchase today! Stay tuned for news about an album launch/Alaska Tapes show in the very near future.

Andrew wrote this about the album and origin of the name:

Supposedly it still bubbles today. Stockyards in the early 1900s used Bubbly Creek as a home for the blood, for the entrails, and diseased carcasses of the pigs, cows, and other animals that came their way during the glory days of the meatpacking industry…When rains overwhelm the sewage system, the water district dumps untreated human excrement into the Chicago River and the creek. It is more of a living history. 

All interest in the subject escapes on the hot summer days when the wind blows west, and the all-too-real ghosts of the animal carcass’ stench fills the air of McKinley Park. On such days, it is advisable to stay home and read a book. or knit a sweater. or play with your cute baby. or write songs… 

The beauty of song and creativity is one does not have to be the stranger who gathers the filth to make a product - one is merely influenced and then inspired. 

As Saul Williams states on the classic ‘Twice The First Time,’ 

“we drum the essence of creation from city slums.” 

Such is the way with Songs from Bubbly Creek. Where the stench is turned into reflections on other places - of lakes, of rivers! - and of gratitude. Gratitude for the cicadas calling and the crowded streets and the brownish tint of the majestic skyline and even for the insufferable stench. The goddam stench, of the goddam slaughtered animals, that still produces bubbles - of poisoned flesh, of methane, of inspiration….credits

Source: andrewmalo