Wait For Love (and a collection of unreleased collaborations)
Wait For Love is our newest single. Over the years, we've recorded a series of electronic tracks and collaborations that never quite fit in with the other songs from our records. While celebrating our 25th anniversary, it seemed like the perfect time to collect some of these tracks from the vaults to create a retrospective of unheard songs. More unreleased music still lies in the our closet, so perhaps a sequel could be in the works.
New Music
New Music is currently the most accurate portrayal of the current Change! Pop lineup. Recorded in our current practice space at Hot Tea Studios, these new songs and recordings are an honest representation of our live performances.
The title of the record was inspired by a section of a Delaware record store that had a special cassette section (labeled New Music). The goal was to write a handful of songs that would have lived peacefully in the New Music section at Bert's Records on Concord Pike.
Strange Year EP
Pandemic strikes. Recording and practices are cancelled. TV and phone calls are filled with wild theories about what is happening in the world and what is to come.
Amidst the chaos, I was thrilled when Rob contacted me about recording a live version of our new song Musical Pen Pals (from the confines of our homes.) The experiment went so well that I wanted more, so I contacted Anthony Salvini (former Change! member) about working on a new song. That song was called Hiding.
More songs were written, including some new collaborations with Malachite (my daughter), Kiran Gupta Cage Free, Stephanie (my wife) and Sheba (my cat). Graham, Rob and Steve self recorded parts to finish the songs. All in all, it was a year well spent.
Skulls In The Closet
I have a secret, one that I've been forced to keep
Change! has a new member and his name is Steve
Steve plays the accordion, we're addicted to the sound
So we've written brand new songs to play whenever Steve's around
We've summoned ancient spirits, cups of absinthe in their grip
As we rise and fall together on the Forget Me Not Ship
Recorded in 2019, Change! Pop is excited to welcome Steve Ventrello to the band. We are a 4 piece again!
Bright Side Of The Moon
Everyone knows the dark side of the moon. It's the great big gig in the sky and plays well along side of The Wizard Of Oz. But what about the bright side? It's always there lighting the way through our mischievous nights. It's beautiful and adds the perfect ambience for a first kiss. We've written about it time and time again and yet it's lost its poetic influence to something darker and remote.
We are sorry precious side of the moon. We have ignored your light for too many decades. To make amends, we offer two wonderful pop songs to cherish your totality. Which song represents which side, you ask? Well, I guess it depends on what spot in the galaxy your listening from.
Pure Strawberry
Two berries scattered in the fields. One was ripe and full of life, but the other berry was bitter and possessed. Which is which? It's anyone's guess...
This is the dynamic tale of a band from Napa California, trying to learn the difference between grapevines and dangerous fruit. We are excited to add Graham Terry to Change! Pop and special guest vocalist, Jungle Jayne.
This EP represents an important time for the band, as we usher in a new era and began to perform live with our newest member.
Dark Side Of The Love Letter
She kept a jar in her closet that was filled with love letters. She read them on candless nights when she was moody and needed to feel loved . But over the years, the jar started to overflow. Some of those long, sappy letters just didn't seem to make the cut anymore. And the author of those letters will never know which side of the letter was read: the poems on the front page or? Side B: A Nothingness, a blank piece of tree pulp, a paper airplane floating aimlessly through space. Never to be read, never to be known... One day, the jar tipped over. Sunlight shot through the window and bounced off the glass. A rainbow shown above the letters. Two sides of the rainbow exposed: a light side and a dark side.
Change! Pop
100% Pop! 100% Change! It's hard to deliver on both of these words, but Anthony Salvini and Aaron McEvoy achieved it on this one. This EP is the most concise and catchy collection of Change! songs yet. Driven by vintage synth, hearing devices and other electronic mastery, producer Anthony Salvini really left his fingerprints on this one.
These songs were written and recorded during the peak of the Aaron/Anthony duo. Anthony continues to be an occasional collaborator and will always be my brother.
Disguised As Animals (The Lost Record)
This was meant to be a break through record for Change! After completing "When Spaceships Collide", the slate was cleared for Aaron to write a thematic masterpiece. Penned in one year, these ten songs are about our animal instincts.
Anthony Salvini joined the band as the studio sessions began. These songs jolted the bands intense live shows. Sadly, issues occurred in the studio and master files were hijacked. For years, this critical work in the band's history went missing. That was until 2016 when the unfinished mixes were found. These mixes have been mastered by Kenneth Daniels and a lost record is discovered!
When Spaceships Collide
When Spaceships Collide was recorded over a period of a week in the South Side of Chicago. After hearing the original Change! recordings, Paul Heintz (songwriter for Sunny Shadows, Calm Palm Vapor and Midstates) invited Aaron McEvoy to come to Chicago to record in his private studio for a week. The invitation was then extended to Rob Corradetti (Mixel Pixel, Killer Acid) who joined the week long recording session which resulted in ten of the eleven tracks. In need of a opener to the record, Aaron returned to Chicago a few months later with Max Breakwell (former Change! guitar player) to put the finishing touches on This Year We'll Fly.
Circle Of Ambient Friends
Circle Of Ambient Friends is a very heartfelt and private project which was primarliy penned during the summer and fall of 2003. These songs focus much less on the dulcimer and instead rely on plunderphonics, collage style song writing and darker lyrical themes.
It was with the assistance of Tim Blaze, that these songs were completed in the intended form (during the summer of 2005.) These recordings are a nice insight into many of the solo sets which dominated Change! performances during 2003-2004. Originally released on Comfort Stand, who encouraged us to finish and release these songs.
The Brooklyn Years
It was 1999 and the world was coming to an end. A glitch in technology was going to reset power generators and people's financial data at the stroke of midnight. Before this happened, Aaron McEvoy chose to invest all of his money into recording and releasing records. He teamed up with Rob Corradetti to create Mental Monkey Records during a critical rise in the Brooklyn music scene.
At this time, Change! was actually two bands with different members in each incarnation (with Aaron being the common thread.) These are the original recordings of these two bands during our formative years in Apartment 333 in Brooklyn, NY.