Waking Up On The Wrong Side of No One, by Dead Leaves Rising

Waking Up On The Wrong Side of No One

by Dead Leaves Rising

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Dominic James I've been looking for an album that has this kind of sound most of my life. Shout out to thorn1 for pointing me in the right direction. Favorite track: The Boy Who Ruined The World.

Will I love this CD from start to finish. Second album seems to be a transformation/morph. A very mature sound in this. Someone actually took this disc out of my collection. Glad to have it digital and exposure to the rest of Jon's works. Favorite track: The Glass Is Half-Empty.

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1.	My Face 06:19	buy track
2.	Fortress 04:29	buy track
3.	California 07:25	buy track
4.	A Foundation Forms 04:52	buy track
5.	The Glass Is Half-Empty 05:12	buy track
6.	Cold, Dark Water 04:30	buy track
7.	The Boy Who Ruined The World 07:30	buy track
8.	Each Day Is Like Winter 10:14	buy track
9.	Stars 05:39	buy track
10.	That Summer 02:54	buy track
11.	The Melancholia Of Everything Completed 05:24	buy track

about

Originally released in 2001 on Plow City Records and out-of-print since 2002.

Dead Leaves Rising was the project born from the ashes of Jon DeRosa’s first musical project Fade, which was active from 1993-1995 while he was still in high school. He released two cassettes under this moniker, 1993’s Pale, Broken Truths and 1995’s Windows, and performed his first concerts in New York City. Musically, it can best be described as minimal dark folk.

Musically, DLR showed a complexity and an aggression that was absent in all of the Fade material, which tended to be passive and mournful. The acoustic guitar still served as the basis for all songs, but DeRosa’s classical training and appreciation of the studio environment led him to experiment with layered guitars, other instruments and collaboration with other players. He drew influence from bands on the Projekt Records label, (Lycia, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Thanatos, Love Spirals Downwards and Eden) as well as the 4AD label, meshing darker atmospheres with the folk music he grew up with.

DLR’s first album "Shadow Complex" was recorded from September 1996-January 1997, at Waterlands Studio in Colts Neck, NJ. DeRosa funded the project through part-time jobs during his senior year of high school and released the CD on his own Brighter Records imprint in June of that year. It was limited to 500 copies on matte art paper, hand-assembled, and included a comic that DeRosa drew.

In the years that followed, DeRosa would begin his ambient/guitar project Aarktica, release a cassette of downtempo ambient/electronic music as Still, and join the NYC chamber pop ensemble Flare. It wasn’t until 2001 that DeRosa released the second and final DLR album "Waking Up On The Wrong Side Of No One" on Plow City Records. This release displayed DeRosa waning from the brooding, gothic sounds of the first album, and toward a folkier, dark indie rock sound.

Label problems plagued the release from the start, and the album fell largely into obscurity. DeRosa laid the project to rest in 2002 to focus on his new project Aarktica.

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released June 1, 2001

Jon DeRosa - vocals, guitars, bass, drums

Daphne Carr- Cello
Jesse Skokos - Piano

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