This is the first collaboration between Michael Dollan and Tennessee based artist MNTN, named mdTN as a contraction of both artists names, and looking like it will be the first of many!
Michael and MNTN met via a Facebook International Musicians Network where MNTN had asked members to share their work with him. MNTN picked up on Michael's EP - and in turn Michael checked out MNTN's catalogue. It was love at first listen on both sides.
Although contrasting in styles, Michael and MNTN were intrigued to see what would happen if they collaborated with each other - and this is the result!
All for me started with a synth loop from MNTN, Michael adding bass, guitar, drum lops and spoken word - then sending it back to MNTN who in turn added his own vocals and fx. It really was that quick and easy - obviously it was meant to be.
Both artists are really pleased with the resulting music, and excited about their future collaborations.
lyrics
It’s all for me.
Everything.
(I called last week and I was trying to get back to you because
I wanted you to know that I’m not the only one that acts like this,
you do it too and… It’s unfair. Everything is unfair.)
Though I’m comfy and nurtured, I’ll still wait and I’ll see
If that hole that I fill, fills the whole yet of me.
See it nags and it gnaws, and it thirsts and it greeds,
Round pegs fit in square holes, just not properly.
I’m comical like an alien
Measure me to the trailing end
I haven’t friends for mailing men
It’s not truth, it’s not science, nor silence, nor dream.
Words hid behind actions, techno-memory.
Sent outwards, turned inwards, highlight and delete.
Where texture’s desired, instead meet glass sheet.
Housing him like a feeble hymn
While struggling to reach at sin
Everyone has an everything
But I am like a fairy being
Come not the morning, languid breath in dis-ease
Disturbed and disturbing, ectopic and brief.
Eyes open, closed vacant… weird syncope,
And the whole isn’t dream, and the dream isn’t deep.
Pennies for the richer man
And dollars for the homeless
Speaking loudly for a crowd
That wishes it was empty
Chorus of nonsense, eyes open asleep.
There’s a story forgotten, imperatively.
Import action - inaction, export health, export sleep.
Anathematic? The payment? It is but the fee.
And I don’t know how long I’ll be
But I don’t care just leave me be
I don’t know how long I’ll be
But you can stay just for me
It’s all for me…
Everything…
credits
from all for me,
released February 7, 2021
Written and produced by Michael Dollan and MNTN
Synth, vocals and FX - MNTN
Bass, Guitar, Drum loops, and spoken word - michael dollan
(c) mdTN 2021
Out now is my debut album 'our own unique patch of sky'...
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I've spent the best part of 30 years in various bands as a bass player, or singer/guitarist. I've also performed numerous times as an acoustic singer songwriter, and have sung in several a capella choirs.
For last 20 years I've worked as a Community Musician and Arts Manager....more
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