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FIVE: The Phil & Deb Project

by Holy Sheboygan!

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Uncle Mike 03:31
New and lost New and lost Safe in the hands of fire New and lost New and lost Safe from the chickens and the liars There’s a boy back there, living a wild life Living in a technicolor barn, living a wild life In the woodshed with the fish heads, living a wild life The sun’s burning a hole in my brain, I’m living a wild life Living a wild life
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Fog Gravecut fog Steel, gravecut fog Gravecut fog, block thick, a thumb A thumb traces my ribs, a stirring in steel a sighing in smog (a signal in smoke) (a sighing in smog) A blush of steam (grazes an ankle) flushing a red heady tinge I remember pin-pricked cinder skin Forged fresh from metal, gleaming silvered glass All that ash I turned back with a lingering cough A veil of bees, I drape my shawl (swaddled in wet swarm and soft) River where the sky breaks shadow River running block thick River is a charcoal silence River where the rust runs
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Saliva 02:56
Eyes so weary and thin Saliva coating my skin I’ve never felt like this Saliva coating my skin I’m coming
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Bicycle 02:11
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It’s eight o’clock, uhh ten. I should be leaving for home pretty quick It’s quarter to six Well, I got your message Deb and I’ll call you later It’s 6:30 here In the city that works or the city that jerks Who knows? Super dude, super Ok, cool Buh-bye See you tomorrow
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Travel Song 04:51
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Not so fast Wash the past Not so fast Wash the past Not so fast Wash off the past I jumped into the ocean to find something to hold on to I parted with the gift of apprehension I am not afraid of shedding buoyant expectation Still, I’ll miss the patterns I’ve created How many times up the mountain? Find your hidden heart living in the mirror I’m getting ready for the present

about

Phil Kalinowski lived in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village for most of his life. He blacked out all of his windows in his tiny apartment and devoted his life to pencil drawings, none of which were ever seen by the public. In 2000, he took all of his drawings, threw them in a dumpster and headed to Southern California where he spent the rest of his life homeless.

Deb Cole was Phil’s landlord, ex-lover and only confidante. She lived above Phil and, when he left Chicago, rescued his work from obscurity - meticulously preserving each piece of art. During his years of homelessness Phil stayed in contact with Deb, creating hand-drawn postcards and mailing them to her almost daily, which she added to her collection.

After Phil died in 2015, Deb and The Wormfarm Institute, a rural arts organization in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, commissioned Holy Sheboygan to write music based on Phil’s life and work. Sadly, Deb also passed away in the midst of the creation process and so the project became not only a memorial to Phil but to Deb and her devotion to his art. The result is a thirty minute song cycle that illustrates the art and their story.

credits

released September 9, 2022

Written and Produced by Holy Sheboygan
Funded by The Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI
Recorded by Patrick Boland, Marty Brueggemann and Jeff Patlingrao at Honeytone, Neenah, WI
and at The Crutch of Memory, Appleton, WI
Mixed by Marina Killion at Optimus, Chicago, IL
Production Consulting from LeRoy Bach
Mastered by TW Walsh
Album Art by Phil Kalinowski
Lettering by George Ziegler

Special Thanks to our hosts
Bud and Joyce Ihde of The Old School Art Asylum in Lime Ridge, WI
The Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston, MA
and Cathy Schwalbe in Chicago, IL

Julia Blair - vocals, piano, organ, rhodes, accordion, viola, violin, electric guitar, percussion
Cameron Carrus - vocals, upright and electric bass, percussion
Ben DeCorsey - vocals, electric guitar, bouzouki, banjo, percussion
Jeff Edenberg - vocals, horn, piano, flute, percussion
Rachel Graber - vocals, banjo, synths, beats, percussion
Liam O’Brien - vocals, acoustic guitar, synths, sax, beats, percussion

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