“I Used to Go Out”
By Sage Redman
Written and performed by Sage Redman; produced by Sage Redman and Patrick Chinn; engineered by Floyd Reitsma at Studio Litho in Seattle, Washington. Copyright ©2011 Sage Redman
Born and raised in Seattle, Sage Redman is currently attending Goldsmiths, University of London, to study popular music. Her releases include the EP It Is What It Is (2008), the full-length album 93 Disaster (2010), and the EP Dramatics, which appeared in 2011.
Esopus 17 (Fall 2011)
Esopus CD #17: Fear Itself
After our readers submitted their most intense irrational fears for our fifth subscriber invitational, we invited 13 musicians to select one fear to use as inspiration for a new song for this issue’s CD. Some of the tracks convey these phobias with absolute gravity: For instance, Edinburgh-based band Meursault delivers a haunting and heartbreaking take on Wendy Cohen’s anxiety about dropping dead on the street and leaving loved ones behind (“No Knock at the Door”). But there are lighter approaches, too, like Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt’s “Spew,” a raucous number inspired by Dave Miranda’s fear of vomiting in public. Whether serious or comic, sad or buoyant, all of these wonderful songs prove that fear is as rich and potent a source of musical inspiration as any other human emotion.