Pleasant

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Pleasant
CD Cover
CD Cover
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 2001
RecordedJanuary 2000 - March 2001
Length0:55
Labelscary!records
0DegreesK chronology
Pleasant
(2001)
Demo(n)s III
(2002)

Pleasant was the first collection of music under the 0degreesK moniker. All tracks were recorded in Oberlin, Ohio, using a Roland VS-840EX digital multitrack recorder and mastered on a Phillips stand-alone CD recorder.

Track Listing

  1. Pleasant (2:42)
  2. Step-It-Up (1:15)
  3. Epiphone (2:21)
  4. Folk Song 2000 (3:13)
  5. Aspiration Blues (4:06)
  6. Easy Wind (3:52)
  7. Roe.Boe (2:07)
  8. Southwest (1:56)
  9. TOSHIRO (2:13)
  10. Frogday (0:45)
  11. Melody (0:50)
  12. Hay Love (4:21)
  13. Drums (1:55)
  14. Robot Love (1:56)
  15. My Generation (2:29)
  16. That Rocks!!! (1:00)
  17. Filer #2 (2:24)
  18. Piano (0:33)
  19. Whistle (2:12)
  20. (RIPE%) (1:39)
  21. Scr__em (2:24)
  22. Filer #1 (3:20)
  23. Dominatrix (4:51)


Equipment

  • Roland VS-840EX Digital Multitrack
  • Boss DR-770 Drum Machine
  • Akai S-20 Phrase Sampler
  • Seagull 12-String Acoustic Guitar
  • Fender 6-String Acoustic Guitar
  • Gibson Epiphone Electric Guitar
  • Casiotone SK-1 Synthesizer
  • Yamaha Synthesizer

Covers

CD Insert: Front
CD Insert: Inside
Jewel Case Insert


Personal Thoughts

All things considered, this is one of my favorite collections of music I ever put together. The tracks are consistently good and imaginative. The period of my life from which it all came was without a doubt the worst stretch of my life so far. I'd run into a string of bad luck and even worse decisions with horrible results. My friends had basically abandoned me and a lot of it was recorded completely alone and basically imprisoned in that old house at 211 Pleasant Avenue in Oberlin, Ohio. It was a sort of living nightmare and I think a lot of that comes through in the music here which is important. The collection was put together shortly after beginning a new job in Akron, Ohio, which marked a major turning-point in my life. In a way, the title is simultaneously ironic and sincere.