The Victory Garden, by M-1 Alternative

The Victory Garden

by M-1 Alternative

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Bishop It's fantastic to hear these early tracks that preceded M-1's three classic albums. Bruce and Josh should have been *huge*. Favorite track: Photographs Of Day.

kalnins I love it because the songs are so damn long! Favorite track: Pain In a Dark Room.

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	1.	Our Gods In Rapture 05:21
	2.	Pain In a Dark Room 09:18
	3.	Dance With the Empty Room 07:29
	4.	Photographs Of Day 07:06
	5.	Hunted 03:32

about

Two boys, two guitars, a Drumatix, and a Pro-One.

Half a year after Music For War Heroes, we booked a session at John Altmann Recording, to which we would return in the years to come, and committed the last five songs of the two-guitar lineup of the group to tape. The early sound is still there, but synthesizer and clean guitar provide a hint of the more expansive music soon to come. A handful of friends, record labels, and club bookers got copies on cassette; one of those bookers, Dirk Dirksen told me, "your songs are just too damn long," before giving us a night at The On Broadway, above Mabuhay "Fab Mab" Gardens, and I am sure he had the second song here in mind. There are some baffling mix moves in to be heard, but the tape box notes "all hands on Lexicon," and a cassette made from the mixing desk confirms that these were done on the faders rather than being artifacts of the aging of the tapes.

Music and production by M-1 Alternative (Joshua Maremont and Bruce Musser).

Recorded on 7-7-1982 at John Altmann Recording.

Engineered by Mat.

All tracks restored and transferred from the 1/4" stereo master tape by Tardon Feathered at Mr. Toad's in 2015.

Album mastered by Joshua Maremont at The Pancake Institute in 2022.

No compression or limiting was used in the mastering process.

Please download lossless formats; the audio files are 96kHz and 24-bit.

The photo is of an overgrown tunnel into the Pacific Defence bunkers in the Presidio, the now closed military base in San Francisco.

This album continues the release of the studio recordings of M-1 Alternative between 1981 and 1992.

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released July 7, 1982

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M-1 Alternative band photo by Rico Schwartzberg

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