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GREAT INVENTORS -- The solo debut from AARON JENTZEN

The buzz:

"The music has unique character that allows the listener to be effortlessly swept up in the song."
-- The GLOBE, Point Park University

"... lush, atmospheric, expansive pop epics reminiscent of The Church and the American Music Club."
-- PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

"He's got this voice with fantastic depth and emotion, and really that's the anchor for every song ... "
-- TODD ECKERT, producer of the Ian Curtis and Joy Division biopic, CONTROL

"Jentzen's aims are ambitious and unique."
-- The DUKE, Duquesne University

"He reminds me of everything I love about Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, and Matt Berninger [with] a distinctive spectacularness that makes him a must-listen in his own right."
-- CAMELSWITHHAMMERS blog
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released 10 November 2009
Produced by Todd Eckert

Recorded at the Pigeon House and various locations in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles by Barak Shpiez and Aaron Jentzen

Aaron Jentzen: voice, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, synth, piano, programming, percussion, low whistles, bagpipes
David Palmer: drums
Kirk Salopek: electric guitar and atmospheres
David Bernabo: piano
Jeremy Papay: percussion
Brian Sproul: electric guitar, percussion
Cellofourte: cello quartet

Photography: Laura Petrilla
Design: Doug Kochmanski and Julie Skidmore
Legal representation and licensing: Chris Bradstreet, Bradstreet Entertainment

All songs by Aaron Jentzen, published by Inferential Kid Music (BMI), except "Yesterday's People" by Aaron Jentzen and Brian Sproul, published by Inferential Kid Music (BMI) and Custerdome Music (BMI)

Copyright 2009 by Aaron Jentzen. All rights reserved.

Inferential Kid Music + Media
P.O. Box 1162
Pittsburgh, PA 15230-1162

www.aaronjentzen.com
www.lifeismymusic.com
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Track Name: Great Inventors
GREAT INVENTORS
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen

Smug and self-assured
Marching on the world
Never tell a soul
The mysteries we know
We thought it never got any better than this
Stoned in Diag park
Can't wait until it's dark again
Combat Rock on the stereo
and that Rocky Horror Picture Show
We thought it never got any better than this

CHORUS:
Nothing good comes with this colder weather
People blow away like yesterday's papers
After all those hungry years I still remember:
That was the summer of the great inventors

She wants the glitter and the paint
The lush life won't wait
The power and the glory
A growing-up-fast story
We thought it never got any better than this
Last night on the street
I saw her once again
Red hair and white shoulders
Living with her dealer
She said it never gets any better than this

CHORUS

Wake up in the morning, and I feel innocent
Wake up in the morning, and I'm so innocent

CHORUS
Track Name: The Known World
THE KNOWN WORLD
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen

I'll drive out on a street full of shinier cars
Hear those engines roar
Little white lies is what they are
But every night needs a candle to stay awake
Every man needs something that he can't shake
And she always has a word, a glass of wine or a dollar

Soldiers & Sailors, cannons and students
All think this world is their own
The time they steal, they try to sell it back to the years
But it's just another pawnshop, a handout, a payday loan
All this nothing for nothing that eats at your bones
Paid off with a knife or a club or a rope

CHORUS
In the known world
You're all dogs and snakes and Christ
In the known world
It's closing up, for what that's worth

All was lost, before we were born
All will be won, after we're gone
All was lost, before we were born
All will be won, after we're gone

CHORUS
Track Name: Magnetic West (feat. Cellofourte)
MAGNETIC WEST
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen

Too bad about tomorrow
Tonight was all lips and fingers and fun
We built this city of sweating local scenery
With no backstory to come back from
Got caught on a rooftop, smoking
Cutting deals with this wet world
A neon night, a heavy high it calls

CHORUS
It's just one midnight mile to the motel of lost companions
Will we fight for one another in these Western lands?

There's a dread that I get when I look into the West
And I'm back in the valley, chasing red with white with red
I go to bed with every one of you again
When I look through telescopes of dust at the survivors of other men
I'll go there, I'll go there, I'll go there
I liked it, I liked it, I liked it

CHORUS

Amy at the drugstore
Buying band-aids for skinned knees
Amy buying a loaf of bread
Babe, you'd better shut up
I walked back that mile this morning
While the birds pecked the trash in the street
Another empty Uptown Sunday
Tonight there's nothing to do in this town

CHORUS
Track Name: People Like Us
PEOPLE LIKE US
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen

Walked out alone, along the river
With everything I've lost but the time
Bottleflies in a buzzing chorus
What came down here to die?
Years flake from the rusty girders
Blind bridges to nowhere much
Where you kissed me once, for luck
A dirty bit of business

CHORUS
For people like us
Washed in the water, and left on the shore
For people like us
There's got to be a little something more

Hypnotized by the shops and towers
We never see the sun go down
We want a taste of this game they're running
But never seem to break away from this town
We took our enemies as friends
Now they're selling us back our skins
Reclaiming the brownlands again
A dirty bit of business

CHORUS

All the promises and plans we made
On the Sixth Street bridge that day
They've been nickled and dimed away
A dirty bit of business

CHORUS
Track Name: Yesterday's People
YESTERDAY'S PEOPLE
Lyrics: Aaron Jentzen

Saw my face in the mirror
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
All the smoke and glass and sidewalks
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
At all, at all, at all ...
Now I see a ray

All of yesterday's people
Standing in the dark
Standing in the dark
What seemed so long ago
Has just walked through my door
Now I see a ray

Saw her face in the mirror
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
Greasy fingers through the cobwebs
Didn't like what I saw
Didn't like what I saw
At all, at all, at all ...
Now I see a ray

Yesterday's people
All of yesterday's people
All of yesterday's people
Yesterday's people
All of yesterday's people
All of yesterday's
I hate yesterdays
Yesterday's people