Get So High I Can't Get Down EP, by Warmer

Get So High I Can't Get Down EP

by Warmer

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A beautifully functional relic of the late 20th century, this object comes with four b-sides, including 4-track demos.

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1.	Get So High I Can't Get Down 03:39
2.	How Fire Works (4-track demo) 02:55	buy track
3.	Sore Knowledge 04:04
4.	Cold Diamond Armchair (4-track demo) 03:21
5.	Lost An Eyelid (4-track demo) 03:34

about

Warmer is the singer-songwriter project of John Encarnacao. Under this, name John produced three albums during the 2000s before turning his attention to the more collaborative The Nature Strip, which also features singer-songwriter Peter Marley (see chinapigrecords.com.au).

John was invited to Hobart to work with producer David Carter to bring some tunes and make an album with his students at the Tasmania Conservatorium. The result is an album called Wooden Box With Strings, which will be released by Half a Cow in March 2020. It is full of acoustic guitars, a string quartet, and other delights . . .

. . . First release from the sessions is “Get So High I Can’t Get Down”, a song which threatens to turn digital platforms into the AM radios of old with its killer pop hooks and performances bursting with energy. While some have compared it to the classic good times of the Monkees, there’s also something of a ’90s lo-fi feel, even if that effect was achieved through oldskool mixing on an analogue desk.

The chorus and most of the lyrics to “Get So High” came to John while walking between Circular Quay station and Sydney Opera House en route to a concert and quickly sung into his phone before they could be forgotten. It was only a couple of years later that he wrote the bridge and finished the structure.

And though the track “Get So High” is far from an exercise in ’90s retro, its packaging might be. It’s being released as a limited-edition CD single (100 copies) with four b-sides, three of them 4-track demos from the John E. archives. One, “How Fire Works”, is a song never before released in any form, written in the late 1990s around the same time as Nature Strip fave “Shoes”. The other two, “Cold Diamond Armchair” and “Lost an Eyelid”, will be known by Warmer fans through their proper studio versions on Spider and Lamb and The Cat’s Miaow respectively. That leaves “Sore Knowledge”, a hitherto unknown (and kinda creepy) outtake from The Cat’s Miaow with John on resonator guitar.

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released October 29, 2019

1. Get So High I Can’t Get Down (3:41) From the forthcoming album Wooden Box With Strings. Produced by David Carter. Drums by Sam Dowson, backing vocals by Mandy Pearson.

2. How Fire Works (2:53) 4-track demo recorded 2000.

3. Sore Knowledge (4:01) Outtake from The Cat’s Miaow, recorded 2002. Produced by John Encarnacao, recorded by Michael Carpenter.

4. Cold Diamond Armchair (demo) (3:21) 4-track demo recorded 2005. Rerecorded for Spider and Lamb.

5. Lost An Eyelid (demo) (3:34) 4-track demo recorded 2002. Rerecorded for The Cat’s Miaow.

All songs written by John Encarnacao and published by Mushroom Music. All tracks mastered by Tim Kevin except “Get So High” mastered by David Trumpmanis. Art and layout by Ryszard Dabek.

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John Encarnacao Sydney, Australia

New album: Wooden Box With Strings
out 4 June 2020 on Half a Cow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFCI3osYDxE

Warmer is Sydney Australia singer-songwriter John Encarnacao and friends.

John is also part of The Nature Strip:
chinapigrecords.com.au/album/beetle-bones

and does improvised music:
psychopyjama.bandcamp.com/album/tinderbox ... more

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