This is the first original work I’ve done since completing my animated ‘Pablo’ series.  ‘Fijrefly’ was never played live, so it only existed on a studio track.  I wanted to do something special with it, and looked to old film transfers I made, from material shot by my relatives back in the 50’s.  Two of the twenty-six reels had been double exposed, and resulted in unreal, abstract imagery that I had always loved.  I mixed that in with a few scenes from a personal documentary I made, around the time period that Wallace and I started making art.   I cut it all together, during a manic phase, in about 6 hours. 

Notes from Wallace:

This is pulled from the dust bin archive, recorded with Hyrum Summerhays. Written by Wallace Mecham on guitar & an old Alamo lap steel that Jp Whipple gave me, who then played accordion, and made haunting whispers & sounds. And the talented rhythm section fellas, that I put on the spot in the studio: Byron Owens on dumbek, and Ben’jamin, an ambitious new bassist with Fury Beats (2nd drummer of The Furs); (sorry I cannot remember full names, too many moons ago)

We all pulled this together with very little time, and executed one the most uniquely epic songs from the Drodna catalog.