"didn't want to go that morning and be contentious to while the hours away..."
Life is a struggle and we toil away at it for the almighty dollar. At least most of us do. There is nothing wrong with that of course. In our system of competition rather that cooperation it is what we must do to survive, to feed our families, to live the life that we choose for ourselves. Maybe, though this system teaches us from a very young age to praise greed over other things. Maybe this kind of system fosters selfishness over charity.
"Grow This Garden' by For Tuesday, the personal indie lo-fi emo rock project of singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, producer Mark Ferris and also featuring the voice of Emorie (Jessie Villa), is a tender tribute to man who touched them both. The song with touches of ambiance and field recordings glows somberly and serves as a touching eulogy of the man and an expression of Ferris and Villa's Christian spirituality.
From the artists:
"This is the story of a profoundly impactful encounter Emorie and I had with a remarkable man. Naed was a devotee of the Catholic Worker Movement, living intentionally in poverty to work charitably within his impoverished neighborhood. A single day with him inspired us to strive for the kind of love and mercy he gave to others, love which he attributed solely to the grace of God, the “tears of amazing grace” which watered his beloved community garden. This is our humble eulogy in memoriam of him. His voice can be heard singing a favorite hymn with us at the end of the track, recorded stealthily by me on the actual day which the song is about."
It's funny, I have a problem with a lot of organized religions and especially the so called super churches. That being said, some of the finest, best people I have met in my life are deeply religious whether be Christian, Buddhist, Jewish or their own brand of spirituality. Did the religion shape their giving spirit or did their giving spirit flower toward religion? It is hard to say but in the end it doesn't matter.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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For Tuesday is an indie lofi emo rock music project from Mark Ferris, the songwriter, instrumentalist, producer/mix engineer behind the songs. The project began as a series of lofi music sketches on Instagram and TikTok where Ferris explored the creative possibilities of cassette tapes, guitar pedals and synthesizers to make short-form tape loop driven ambient, lofi, experimental music. Inevitably, the project birthed a series of single releases to explore different ways of integrating some of those lofi tape sounds with an indie pop or rock sensibility, leading to the release of The Postal Service-inspired single “Hard Drive” in August 2020, followed by the release of The Smashing Pumpkins-esque “The Summer Went” in October 2020, then rounding out the year with the release of the synth and riff-heavy “Count Me In” a month later, described by Chalk Pit Records as “idyllic synth-pop anthem (which) will have you listening on repeat”.
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