"Monster Island Dance Party:" An Observation By Artificial Intelligence

A little back­ground: I’ve alluded to my band, Artificial Intelligence, on this blog before, most expans­ively here; in the wake of the engage­ment described in the linked post, the per­son­nel determ­ined that, as they say in the movie, it would be fun to either make a record or play out again, or both. 

Three years and change after that, we made a record. The afore­men­tioned per­son­nel are:

Daniel Burwasser, drums; Ron Goldberg, key­boards and samples; Douglas Harvey, the elec­tric bass; myself, Glenn Kenny, vocals and low-grade gui­tar; and Thomas Santamassino, gui­tar. The rhythm tracks were recor­ded at BC Studios in Brooklyn by the great Martin Bisi in the winter of 2011; the vocals were recor­ded in the same ven­ue, by Mr. Bisi, in November of 2012. The over­dubs were recor­ded by Ron Goldberg at his homes at vari­ous ses­sions between 2011 and 2014. The records was mixed in February of 2014 by Martin Bisi, with Ron and myself sit­ting in on all ses­sions, Mssrs. Harvey and Santamassino advising on sep­ar­ate sessions. 

The record­ing, which if released in album form will be titled Revisionist History, was pro­duced by Ron Goldberg with Martin Bisi. The band entity can best be cred­ited as the Associate Producer. The reas­on for the title is that all the mater­i­al on the record­ing was ori­gin­ally com­posed and played out in the early 1980s. We have not yet determ­ined a release date, or even a defin­it­ive release form for the record­ing, which con­sists of eight songs. I wanted to present the above track as a kind of “sneak pre­view” of the record, and also leech some interest off of the release of the latest Godzilla pic­ture, no duh. Hope you enjoy the song and the admit­tedly rudi­ment­ary slideshow “video.”