Tape represents my appreciation for the antique, the brand new, and the naked and it follows this appreciation in three movements. The first eight songs are meant to give the feeling of ye olde cassette tape and a garage sale piano with broken keys. This is the most mixed of the movements because the songs aren't entirely sampled from cassette recordings but rather include a lot of electronic instruments. I love old dusty dirt decorated with laser and strobe lights.The second movement (songs nine through eighteen) are, for the most part, clean and "new". The last four songs represent the "naked". What I mean by that is I'm sitting at my parents' house playing the piano completely uninhibited, with only my two dogs as an audience. I learned a lot working on these songs and it was the first time I felt good enough about a collection of songs to release them together as an album. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them, although I sincerely doubt that's possible.
dedication
Tape is dedicated to Zach Johnston, Michelle Vita-Sipe and Estee Schwartz.
Zach provided not only the original idea for Tape but was also the only one holding me up to higher standards than my own and without him not only would there be no Tape album, but half the songs would be half as good. Michelle has been my closest friend for the longest time and without out her sincere friendship - which I put to the test all too often - and overly-zealous, almost religious appreciation for the texture and cuteness of Tape I never would've finished. I'll never thank her enough. Estee provided me with a surprise friendship at the time I needed it most as well as a third person sincerely interested in what I was doing. If it wasn't for her I would still be hibernating, convinced I had no more music to write. I almost forgot what it was like to talk to someone. 
I'd also like to thank the following people: Dick, Sue, and Perry Govier, Alex, Laura, Jimmie, Todd, Grace, Connor and Nathaniel over at IGIF, and Twisted NZ down under on Dunemaul.
Last but not least, my two dogs Oliver and Gracie provided me with the best live audience a musician could ask for. The level at which these two canines understood the higher purpose of Tape and empathized with everything I was trying to do will never be explained by science.
Your biggest fan,
Dan Govier (lights.on)
Written January 9th, 2007
Revised March 11th, 2007
Revised March 11th, 2007
