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Hemlock Blues / Love Come Tumbling

by Divining Rod

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    Are you a snob? Particularly a record snob? One who has disdain for anything practical or efficient?
    We are too! That's why we are SUPER EXCITED to offer our new single, 'Hemlock Blues / Love Come Tumbling' on 7" vinyl!
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1.
HEMLOCK BLUES Hemlock hanging on my door Don’t know what it means to me Haven’t seen it there before No, no, no People walking down my street Don’t know who they’re going to meet Don’t know if they know if they’re all diseased Strangers knocking on my door Don’t know what they want from me Don’t know what they’re waiting for No, no, no Keep the world at bay Don’t know if I’ll be okay Don’t know if they know if they’re all diseased
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LOVE COME TUMBLING Storms are raging upon your shore Heart is hanging up on your door Brother’s singing ‘Hold On Hope’ Love come tumbling down Have you crawl across the floor Hands are feeling a rougher road Eyes revealing a blood-red rose Love come tumbling down Hesitating inside your skin Eyes are reigning a light within Blood’s escaping from your veins Love come tumbling down Blood’s escaping from your heart That’s the wound in the sweetest spot Mother’s singing ‘Light Of Love’ Love come tumbling down

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DBL A-Side from Brooklyn's Divining Rod has psychedelic roots firmly planted in southern soil. Tastes like Aloha. Coming 11/11

Divining Rod Releases Record Before They Die: From Hawaii to Brooklyn and Back
A Psychedelic Songster Finds Meaning in Memories


Hidden to most, in a suburban neighborhood in Long Island, a forgotten studio where Eminem blazed bars and Mariah Carey invented a new brand of soprano, Miyuki Furtado, the creative force behind Divining Rod, is feeling the mojo. This is his second 14-hour day and it’s well past his daughter's bedtime (and a dad's pass-out time). The light wooden floor of the tracking room is freshly polished, but these dark walls have history, and Hawaiian-born punk-rocker turned psychedelic troubadour Furtado is there to carve his name in their peeling paint. Although he's made many records, this is the first one he's made truly for himself.

On November 11th, the first two tracks will be released from Divining Rod's forthcoming record Return to Crystal Cove. When asked why he chose "Hemlock Blues" and "Love Come Tumbling" for the Double A-Side Single, he explains that they stand out as examples of the earliest and then the most recent paths his song-writing has taken respectively. Simply put, these two songs serve as bookends for a shelf containing volumes of life lessons Miyuki has gathered from years of touring, time spent with his father in Kauai and the childhood memories that being a dad to his own daughter has helped him reclaim.

"Growing up in Kauai, I was surrounded by live music. My uncles and aunts and cousins all played ukulele and guitar and sang. Any graduation party or birthday party, or any occasion for that matter...they'd put up tables and the tent. They'd play music and the kids would do hula dancing, run around...maybe show off some martial arts they were studying. I come from a pretty large family. Anything could be an event." It was this environment that gave Miyuki his early appreciation of live music. You can hear the familial influence clearly in the oceanic melody line of "Love Come Tumbling" as it lifts and dips on an island breeze over folksy finger-picked guitars lines and a tense build of barely bridled feedback.

This beautiful juxtaposition is made possible by lead guitarist Patrick Harmon's sweeping psychedelic soundscapes which ride the line of melody and chaos throughout Divining Rod's tunes. Perhaps he's drawing inspiration from his own new life as a dad--finding the beautiful moments amidst the madness. Miyuki feels for him, but teases him in his vulnerable new-dadness. "I told him he looked terrible. I said, 'Don't worry. You'll get to sleep in 18 years or so.' He's figuring it out."

Recorded in just a few frantic days by Grammy-nominated producer/mixer/engineer Brian Forbes, the pace helped keep the songs honest and intense. The first day of tracking, Miyuki drummed all 12 tracks. "We basically set up mics, got sounds, and played. What you hear is what you get. When we went in to record, we knew what we had to do and we did it." The songs benefitted from the urgency as Forbes expertly captured sounds in the once-famous room he now calls home.

What came out of these sessions was a record Miyuki had developed an obligation to make. "I was caring for my father in his final days right before I recorded this album. In a lot of ways, his passing created an urgency within me—a sense of my own mortality. I'd been putting off recording it, but that time spent with him helped me realize how fleeting our time here truly is. We stayed up all night and talked about our adventures--what we'd experienced and what we had learned. Over the course of these talks, it was never the big changes that we focused on like the move from Hawaii. It was remembering little events like a time we tripped and fell or something. We'd laugh about them. Little moments. That's what we take with us."

Divining Rod's forthcoming Return to Crystal Cove is a collection of those little moments as divined from the muse, and with the release of this single, the story begins.

credits

released November 11, 2017

Personell:
Miyuki Furtado: Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Bass, Drums,
Congas, Harmonica
Patrick Harmon: Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Backing Vocals

All songs: Miyuki Furtado - Keikosongs Music/BMI

Recorded at Alternate Dimension Studios / The Gallery Recording Studio
By Brian Forbes
Mixed by Brian Forbes at The Gallery Recording Studio
Mastered by Jessica Thompson / Jessica Thompson Audio / Coast Mastering
Produced by Miyuki Furtado and Brian Forbes

Record courtesy of Kilipaki Records

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Divining Rod New York

Alt Country Rock band, DIVINING ROD, led by Hawaiian born, multi-instrumentalist Miyuki Furtado, who sings, plays guitar & drums simultaneously, serves up his brand of soul-tinged Country along w/ his cohorts (guitarist/vocalist, Patrick Harmon, bassist Matt Svigals and drummer, John Malone). Melodic, rowdy & tender songs swathed in reverb. ... more

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