Journal, by Machado Mijiga

Journal

by Machado Mijiga

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1.	Prologue (feat. Tyler Berg) 01:30	info	buy track
2.	Tribes (feat. Emanuel J. Burton) 01:15	info	buy track
3.	Back in Town (feat. Corey Foster) 02:30	lyrics	buy track
Got some change in my pocket. Ain’t quite enough for bus fare. And the way that things are lookin’… I might not have, the strength, for what’s at stake, what it takes… To make it on my own. (to make it my own…) On my own two feet. (Take a chance, don’t hesitate, it can’t wait) I think I should go home… (believe you can fly) ------ (I’m ready to go home) I guess I’ll be back in town. ----- These winding roads... (They take me home, they let me know, they set the tone) (Home again) At least I know that I can have closure... (closure) [x2] …some closure….. (closure….) [x2] Drum Solo (vocalese)
4.	Before Harvest 00:45	info	buy track
5.	Harvest (feat. Daniel Rossi) 00:59	info	buy track
6.	Coriolis (feat. Dan Sutherland) 01:38	info	buy track
7.	Cacao (feat. Andres Moreno) 01:11	info	buy track
8.	Veranda (feat. David Hagen) 01:46	lyrics	buy track
Verse 1: Lets get down to brass tacks. I’m spitting hard facts... …of fallacy Culpable strategies, of analogies. Prime time, rhymes like a fine wine. Dangling grapes, from the vine of consciousness. Straddle the noble steed of competence. Postulating prophecies Populating oddities Homeboy astronomy Tolstoy economy, that’s Soviet. Poetry Nobel laureate. Authoritarian, synergistic, and gregarious Verse 2: My wit? It’s sharp as stone. Break beats like tooth to bone. Murder rhymes like Al Capone. Like Sam Jackson as Frozone. A calzone from Calcutta. Curried up like Steph. "Pizza Time", like Peter Parker. "Price is Right", like Bob Barker. Accreditation of an Ivy League, You might be pleased. My bars? Enticing. Lyricism? Exciting. Dave’s drums? The right thing. The next bars are trifling... Call me Zeus, on Mt. Olympus Y’all bout to catch this lightning... Chorus: The Big Red Dog, (imma call him Clifford) Regis squad (call me Kathy Lee Gifford) Talkin’ Draco (not Aubrey Graham) Like Malfoy (We let the beat Slytherin). Outro: Shout out Elon Musk, shout out Grimes Shout out baby, whose name nobody can pronounce (Including the baby themselves)
9.	180° (feat. Micah Hummel) 02:10	info	buy track
10.	Quark Matter (feat. George Colligan) 01:30	info	buy track
11.	Fuschia (feat. David Ward) 02:19	info	buy track
12.	Mombasa (feat. Reinhardt Melz) 02:00	info	buy track
13.	Portrait (feat. Luca Cartner) 02:15	lyrics	buy track
I've seen my own portrait... (Hello, hello) A picture's worth a thousand words, And all I can see are reflections. (Misdirection) Confined within myself, Staring into my life. I feel the waves, I'm not afraid Where are you taking me...? (Hello, hello) Unfurling. Unwinding. Uncurling. So blinding.
14.	Concourse (feat. Cory Limuaco) 02:31	info	buy track
15.	An Evening Stroll 01:16	info	buy track
16.	Waxing/Waning (feat. Remy Morritt) 02:43	info	buy track
17.	On the Prowl (feat. Simon Peter King) 02:13	info	buy track
18.	Meadow (feat. Domo Branch) 02:15	info	buy track
19.	Aether (feat. Greyfaen Eastland) 01:46	info	buy track
20.	Dwarf (feat. Austin Hass) 00:53	info	buy track
21.	Isosceles (feat. Jacobo Vega-Albela) 02:10	info	buy track
22.	Automaton (feat. Kirk Kalbfleisch) 02:16	info	buy track
23.	Spelunking (feat. Steven Stallings) 01:38	info	buy track
24.	Parallax (feat. Matt Sazima) 02:36	info	buy track
25.	Scarab (feat. Barra Brown) 02:12	info	buy track
26.	Igneous 02:54	lyrics	buy track
Two points converge beyond the observable horizon Forgotten to beget, doomed to achieve ill-gotten gains Of which no qualms exist, for they have been searched and desist; Resisting their trajectory as if to plot a foul and devious treachery Forget this. These are thoughts of heresy. A travesty committed across the amalgam of perceivable knowledge Perturbed and mildly disturbed Protruding from the shadows of sanity, yet starved Starved of the arid continence of re-orientation Commence the countdown 3…to... None In a flash, the downpour commences, and we assume the crux of being Can we truly grasp what we cannot have? To slip through the fingers of our own understanding. I don’t understand, nor do I wish to. We all have, if anything, a prime directive to beget the forgotten Forsake the mistaken, cast aside the dark, and chase the light. A farce within a fallacy; a massive travesty. A crime truly committed without being seen, or heard. But can we slip past the grasp our fragility encompasses steadfastly? We plod on, only to receive a glance of encouragement. Met only be those that we sought to incarcerate through our inhibitions. Prisoners of our own confinement, inmates of indecision. We converge on the path of the forgotten Who look past the forsaken, and set their sights The horizon awaits. Yonder it lies for the treacherous.
27.	Archipelago (feat. Rob Araujo) 01:00	info	buy track

about

This album is the culmination of a several month collaborative project I've championed, creating stimulating music with many of my favorite drummers; friends, mentors, colleagues, and remote collaborators.

I presented 25 different pieces to 25 individuals, sent them bare bone sketches of compositions, received their interpretation/arrangement of the piece, then spent an additional day producing each individual track to compliment the aesthetic that the featured artist brought to it.

Some of these pieces were brand new at the time, some were rather old, never-released pieces that I re-purposed for this project.

(I should also note that this is a video series, and can be seen on my IGTV page @machadomijiga or my YouTube channel)

Aside from the drummers featured on each track (and with the exception of the bonus track), I created everything else that you're hearing myself, in my bedroom. Instruments, Singing, Rapping, Compositions, Artwork, Production, and Engineering were all done by me.

All non-music sound clips compliments of Apple Loops or Pexels and Copyright-Free (CC0).

You can pay whatever you'd like for this project, and feel to share if you hear anything that you particularly enjoyed.

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released June 5, 2020

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Machado Mijiga Portland, Oregon

A Portand native, Machado Mijiga is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, audio engineer, and music educator.

Mijiga's largest current projects consist of:

Leader/Drummer for Djungol Jim, Tour de Force, DoubleDash, and Dingus.

Lo-fi hip-hop production under the alias "Gohan Blanco"

Rap Alias: "Thom Nook"

-Freelance multi-instrumentalist in Portland Metropolitan area. ... more