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The American Scene
Belton Circle
Responsible
Into the Villa
Sling In My Hand
Schoolyard
Storm in August
Dead Dreams
Aqua Marine
Oh Well
Declaring the Attack
Swing
Sonata One
Sonata Two
Sonata Three
Sonata Four
Sonata Five
Sonata Six
Sonata Seven
Compact Disc (CD) ($14,44)
12-page booklet with lyrics,
in Warm Series digipak.
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LINER NOTES
PLAYERS
Robert Schipul, vocals, Steinway Grand Piano
GUEST PLAYERS
James Herstatt, violin
D. Trevor Kampmann, synthesizers
Mike Marques, acoustic drums
Mark Robinson, synthesizers, guitar, percussion
PRODUCED BY
Mark Robinson,
and D. Trevor Kampmann
MIXED BY
Mark Robinson,
and D. Trevor Kampmann
at pulCec 11th & P, Washington, D.C., USA
PIANO RECORDED BY
Bing Delyos (of WMUC radio),
and Mark Robinson,
at Tawes Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
April, 1997
DRUMS RECORDED BY
Jean-Christophe,
at Raw Recording, New York, USA
VIOLIN AND VOCALS RECORDED BY
Roger Arnold,
at Horizon Studios, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA
MUSIC COMPOSITION
Robert Schipul
COVER DESIGN
Mark Robinson, Teen-Beat Graphica
ET CETERA
Bing Delyos was hired from the college radio station WMUC-FM to record the session.
For cost reasons, the digipak package was recycled from the Uncle Wiggly album "Jump Back, Baby". The Uncle Wiggly album had not sold well, so 300 digipaks were spray painted metallic silver in the backyard of Teen-Beat 267. The discs were inserted and then the case was sealed by an American Scene label which had the song titles et cetera. A 12-page booklet with lyrics was place inside. After the initial 300 copies had sold, the CDs were packaged in The Warm Series digipaks with the same sealing sticker.
Thank you to:
Mark and Evelyn,RECORDING NOTES
The American Scene was intended to turn out much differently than what you hear on disc. I was listening to hardcore pretty heavily at this time in my life. It was 1996-97 and there was a huge revival of the genre especially in New England (Connecticut, where I was living at the time, seemed to be right in the center of it all). You can almost pick up some of the chug-chug influences of metalcore bands like Unbroken at the end of "Dead Dreams". The drums we recorded for the album were pretty heavy and I remember turning in all the overdubs to Mark R. and hearing him say "I'm not really into this." That's when I got back a remix of "Storm in August" which used a retro drum machine and looped live rim shots to carry the beat (along with Trevor's keyboard overlays). It sounded like a real radio-ready pop song to me - that's what I was really trying to create - and I realized that my social group was over-influencing where I wanted to go musically.
I couldn't be happier with how the record turned out. A lot of the minimal pop stuff that's popular now sounded so fresh back then - and Mark had an ear for this record that seemed ahead of its time. There's also an interesting dichotomy between man and machine, with the piano/violin and the keyboards/drum machines. I think that was a perfect analogy for the teenage years that are reflected in the lyrics of the album.
- Robert Schipul, March, 2010
RELEASE DATE
July 6, 1999
FORMAT
compact disc
LENGTH
71 minutes, 25 seconds
18 tracks
CATALOGUE No.
Teen-Beat 261
DETAILS
500 pressed.
PACKAGE:
The first 300 copies were packaged in Teen-Beat 185 digipaks spray-painted metallic silver. Latter copies were packaged inside of Teen-Beat's The Warm Series digipaks.
ADHESIVE LABEL:
black ink on glossy white labels.
LABELS:
metallic silver and blue ink.
Catalogue:
Teen-Beat 1999 catalogue update No.2 included, black ink photocopied on white paper (first 300 copies).
Booklet (and decal?) printed by
ASAP, Arlington, Virigina
Pressed by
?
DISCOGRAPHY
SINGLES
ALBUMS
April
Live on WXCI
Cute-Core
6 Songs
Puffy Paint
The American Scene
Winter
Everything Stays the Same, the More You Want It to Change
Walking on a Wire
A Safe Way to Sound
Water & Light
Spiralling
Robert Schipul
Chemical Constellations
Summersky
Plays songs of The National
Dream Theft
COMPILATIONS
1997 Teenbeat Sampler
Cooler Than Empty Vee
1998 Teenbeat Sampler
Pixies Tribute (not released)
1999 Teenbeat Sampler
2000 Teenbeat Sampler
2001 Teenbeat Sampler
The Unlike Label Sampler 2002
2010 Teen-Beat / Other Music Sampler
Teen-Beat Holiday Card 2010/2011
We Believe You (His Name is Alive tribute)
ALSO
UNREST: Teen-Beat 26th Anniversary
Teen-Beat Checklist Cards
SONGS
A Century of Fakers
A Sadness Lasts 1000 Years
Aqua Marine
As Evening Sets In
Ascension
Autumn
Autumn Serenade
Baby Fish Mouth
Beautiful Day
Beautiful Nothing
Belton Circle
Better Off Unknown
Black Magic
Black Sunday Rain
Blind
Bloodbuzz Ohio
The Blue Falls Down
Blue Spring
Brilliantly
Change From the Offering Plate
Close Your Eyes
Could U Even Love Me
The Country Church
Crossover
Dagger
The Darkest Days
Dead Dreams
December
Declaring the Attack
Deserter
Electionation
Everything I Touch Gets Ruined
Evil is Live Backwards
Expectations
Fly Away
Foundation Day
The Friendly Beasts
Frost Covers Everything
Further Away
Gleaning What the Reapers Sow
Good King Wenceslas
Grapefruit
Grey Mind
Hallowed Groundings
Halloween
Haunted Streets In the Early Morning
The Herald Angels
Here You Can Dream
The Holly and the Ivy
How Could You Possibly
I Burn Myself
I Could Find You If I Really Wanted To
I Still Come Back for More
Ice-Pulse
In a Grave
In Comes April
In Orion
Incarnate
Into the Villa
Introduction
It Doesn�t Get Any Worse Than This
It�s Too Late Now, Baby
January (Pool of Ice)
Land
Landscape Painting
Letters for Ellen
Little Earthquakes
Live In My Heart
Lost
Maps
Mary
Mistaken for Strangers
Moon Beach
Moon Over Boston
Morning Gold Light
Night Terrors
No One Special
Not Even Breathing
Not Everyone Has a Home
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come O Come Emmanuel
O Holy Night
October
Oh Well
On the Radio
Past the Mission
Patriotic Up Rise
Piano Sucks
Promenade
Punk Rock Child
Red Hot Air Balloon
Religion
Republic
Responsible
Return Policy
Round and Round
Schizophrenia
Schoolyard
Scratchings
Send My Face
Severed Hand
Shrapnel From the Carpet
Silent Night
Silver and Gold
Sling In My Hand
Slow Show
Snoozer
Sonata 1
Sonata 2
Sonata 3
Sonata 4
Sonata 5
Sonata 6
Sonata 7
Sorrow
Sounds In the Street
Spiralling
Spiralling (7� Pop Edit)
Spit in Half
Spittle
Spring Near Cornwall
Stem
Storm in August
Sugar
Sunday Smile
Super-Connected
Swallowed By the Moor
Sweater Off
Swing
Takeaway
Teething Brute
Thankful 4 U
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Tightrope
Too Far Too Long
Treasure
Turn Out the Lights
Turn the Light Off
Twisted Spires
Underground
Underneath the Moon
Untitled
The Visiting Clientele
Waiting For Snow
Wash Me Out
The Wassail Song
Waterwheels
Wexford
When Heroes Fall Down
Where Is My Mind?
The Wind Over the Water
Winter
Witch
The Witching Hour