Open Evening (MD8 demos)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

	This first rough of Gang, called Open Evening at the time, was sketched out decades ago while drifting between addresses.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

An initial spill of words was just aiming to capture a loose melody in its primary moment. Most wouldn’t survive except for a few seeds that subversively claimed territory.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

A lone phrase dug in as a working title.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

	The song was eventually smeared in with other abandoned dry-runs from 1998 to 2005, resigned with their lyric placemarks jotted between traveling master plans. 

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

After a recording project called Slingshot lost its drive, the collective title was simply changed to Hewn when it appeared to be a cursory stash that wasn’t going anywhere.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

In 2006, a mockup was handed off for a remix as a last-ditch recovery, but was grounded again by other pursuits.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

	New material went on to compose the main body of the album Our Blood. The sequence left off with an open-ended thread of one-way dialogues.
Open Evening found its muse here, rewritten after the rest of the tracks as Gang in 2011 — recorded last, specifically as a response prompted by its previous tracks’ states & meant as an afterthought of leading questions.
The entitled lone phrase met up with its new direction as a mere reprising plural &, humbled, all the drifting finally stopped.