In the Haze of Sleep

In the Haze of Sleep
by W.A. Fite

The sleep deprived nature of my days spin quickly to thoughts of restless nights, awakened by the slightest of happenings and sometimes through the lack of such. Flicks of false rain trickling in a loop of a sound-machine. The brown haze of burned up sod speaking in a voiceless sigh as if to beckon me back out into the yard…again.

Sure, duty and recklessness rarely extend themselves during the same times, yet as opposites, they also rarely collide.

Why do my bushes die when I water them so fervently? Why do some men live when they treat their bodies to rough violences and self-degradation?

These are the questions that wind into that flicker rained loop. And as the windy drops grow more false with wakened thought, so do my boundless days.

Oklahoma Gazette's Review: "Poisoning the Medicine Tree"

Neither here nor there

Oklahoma Gazette Article - June 13, 2011

By Stephen Carradini

W.A. Fite lives in Dallas, but he’s signed to the Dallas/OKC record label Hand Drawn Records. His “Poisoning the Medicine Tree” is an album of gritty electronic pop with a modern-rock singer over it. He follows a less-traveled path through electronic music: This is not the subtle indie pop of The Postal Service, the sunshiny pop of Owl City, or dance-oriented electro. This is forceful, rock-oriented, electronic music that sort of sounds like the pseudo-electronic experiments of Bush (“Glycerine”), thanks to both the vocals and the song structures. “Beating Thomas Best” and “Jack” are immediate standouts, while the mellower “Carney’s Lake” kicks off the quieter, more experimental back half. “That Ain’t the Way” is a piano rumination, showing his diversity.

WATCH THIS: W.A. Fite - Carney's Lake

W.A. Fite
"Carney's Lake"
Poisoning the Medicine Tree

Hand Drawn Records / El Villa Films
Fite Lite Productions © 2011
http://wafite.com

PICTURE SHOW: Carney's Lake Video Shoot

Yesterday's video shoot for "Carney's Lake" went off great, with overcast Texas skies and filthy pond water. Initial looks into James Villa's viewfinder show this one will make a clean addition to the videologue.

Photo Courtesy James Villa Photography

Snapshots by Darell Blocker

FREE DOWNLOAD: Carney's Lake

Download "Carney's Lake" FREE for the next 4 days ONLY (ends 4/24/11).

UPDATE - Monday April, 25: Free Download is done, but Carneys Lake still available to stream free.

There will be a new video for the track, with the shoot scheduled for this weekend. So...Enjoy.



Carney's Lake by handdrawnrecords

MORNING MUSING: Early Hour Spindle

I would like to submit that time is not relegated to an important frame within the human psyche during the hours leading to rest, but rather that creative energy is stored in the brain seemingly for release only in early waking hours.

If the creator of said energy is one inclined to production of thought, then that time is spent justly winding the spindle of what may later be physical product. However, if that person does not focus thought, then such ideas may be ones that drive a mind to madness.

NO. 2: Storyboarding "Carney's Lake" Video

Inspiration always creeps in the early hours, and the final logistical ideas for this weekend's "Carney's Lake" video shoot hit me with the veracity of the hail during last night's storm.

BTW: In my young days I received a "D" in Penmanship.

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Storyboarding "Carney's Lake" Video

The El Villa is back at it, and this time he's zero-ed in on "Carney's Lake". An upright piano, water mixing to a shoreline, firecrackers, and grain...thick grain.

Powerplants and gypsies will be left out of this one, but the suppression of literal memory will be omnipresent as surreal visualizations characterize a bulk of the storyboard. This will not be an interpretation of a music video from your Uncle Bob's film school, but rather a live wire act from singularly flightless birds.

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CD REVIEW: Dallas Observer -&- DFW.com

Two semi-opposing views of "Poisoning the Medicine Tree" in last week's editions of the Dallas Observer and Fort Worth Star Telegram's DFW.com; both a good read.

Dallas Observer
April 7, 2011 / by Darryl Smyers
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-04-07/music/w-a-fite/

DFW.com
April 6, 2011 / by Preston Jones
http://www.dfw.com/2011/04/06/433956/cds-out-of-the-in-box-kirby-brown.html

Poisoning the Medicine Tree AVAILABLE NOW:
Good Records (Dallas, TX)
Doc's Records and Vintage (Fort Worth, TX)
CD Baby
iTunes
Bandcamp *Bonus Track

Amber the Spite

Pictures of buckets, the lackluster girl, is full of snap buttons, and laces with pearl.

Her mind resting easy in lines wrapped striped green.
A whisper of July that sticks to her seam.

A coin dropped in Amber, a kiss coated ripe; that's nothing to something, which never felt right.

How can we all love her? She asks out of spite.
Why can't we just be her? She asks with her thigh.

The doctors go home when their rounds rounded out, but nurses stay on, and they wish through the night.

Her heart is a baby, that waxes and wanes.
She won't be your lady, if you don't like to strain.