Funhouse Horizon - EP | Steven Golliday

Funhouse Horizon - EP

by Steven Golliday

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1.	Lethal Letters 02:45	lyrics	buy track
(MPD, NRA, GOP, LAPD) Run from A to Z, what will you find? Bodies written in between each and every line. Shamelessly in every place we see, every death spelled out in Lethal Letters. Free me. Just let me roll where I am trying to go. Live your life, don't take mine behind those Lethal Letters. Free me. Just let me roll where I am trying to go.
2.	Nonviolence 04:00	lyrics	buy track
Eye for an eye Chain reaction That old cliché Won't save the day Or save a fraction Of what we'll have to pay. For generations Crushing lives with no return the homes will crumble families will burn Eternal violence What have we earned? Tooth for a tooth Just extraction Won't stop decay Blood at the root in a transaction that we will pay in youth. Organization, imagination and we can grow though we will stumble learn as we go We need Nonviolence and we should know that Peace won't shine in the shadow of a bomb we won't ease our fears living in the grip of a gun.
3.	Your Design 02:47	lyrics	buy track
I'm in love with Your Design It's such a precious peace of mind When there's no time to seek and find And it's divine. All my faith in your design I'm seeking yet I cannot find with Your Design I save no time The loss is mine. Can't sleep at night Your light Is telling me That night is day My memory Something you give to me Please don't ever hide I am designed by Your Design.
4.	West of West 03:41	lyrics	buy track
Now time has come They proclaim that we are free We're free to the wind and the rain To be put back in chains if we remain. They call it emancipation Slavery by a different name After and before, so much the same. Go west, maybe start fresh We can have a chance That's what they say. Ride the rails of the Sunset Line Never look behind, see what we find. Now we are here True and false That much is clear. Found work, maybe got a degree But it's easy to see that we're not free They don't call it segregation Jim Crow by a different name After and before, so much the same. Red lines and palm trees in the hottest sun they tell us to freeze. Stand their ground but can't keep us down Going West of West We'll come back around. We'll keep on striving till the sparks turn to flames Beyond the setting sun We will keep on moving and things will never be the same.
5.	Zadie's Castle (for ZBG) 03:27	info	buy track

about

The groove runs deep through Funhouse Horizon. With Steven Golliday this groove is a matter of musical inheritance, for sure. The groove strikes the body with necessity. It’s To be or not to be, it’s the “be” of the bass and beats of jazz and funk, it’s the beckoning to song of fresh clear melody, it’s that irrefutable pull at the heart of a good tune. It’s a miracle every time, and it’s everywhere in Funhouse Horizon, attuning our bodies as it carries us forth. It calls and we go shuffling, humming, singing along.

But as we go, as the mind opens upon the world of the lyrics, the groove takes on a different aspect. It’s invoked by the odd pairing of words in the EP’s title and it cuts clear through the songs: Lethal Letters, Nonviolence, Your Design, West of the West, Zadie’s Castle. As Golliday sings a vast contemplative landscape appears. We’re still in the groove in a musical sense, the lilt of the lines of the poem on the land of the song, but now we’re singing of a staggering predicament. We’re en route to some horizon but our way is lost in the carnival of history and language, the dark wood of the institutional present, the blinding hope for our people, for our nation, for our child. The groove is that uncanny valley cut in the earth by the shuffling on of all humanity. It’s how we got here, the whole ethical and animal thing, this way of being that yearns for better as we’re thrown through the past in the present to the future. The groove calls and we go, knowing very little, for sure, but knowing the groove is the only way from here to there.

credits

released January 15, 2024

All songs written, produced and mixed by Steven Golliday for SGEXP Music

Steven Golliday: Vocals, electric bass, keys, melodica
Dana Buoy: Drums (tracks: Lethal Letters, Zadie's Castle)
Matthew Mayhall: Drums (tracks: Nonviolence, Your Design, West of West)
Alex Callenberger: Guitar
Chris Shuttleworth: Trombone
Eli Sundelson: keys (track: Lethal Letters)

Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering
Cover art: Steven Golliday

Special thanks to Stephanie Tave for absolutely everything. Emily S. Chapman for the support, space and time. Raun Harris for the sage creative consultation. Kenneth Graham for always holding me down.
Todd Marston and the Marston Composition Collective. And all my family and friends for helping me navigate life.