The Oppositional Imagination

by Derek Monypeny

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	1.	Black Lava Butte 05:19
	2.	Poor Richard 06:15
	3.	Oud to Billy Joe 04:06
	4.	The Popinjay 05:07
	5.	Skag Brace 01:47
	6.	The Porpentine 15:37

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Derek Monypeny's The Oppositional Imagination is a record that plays out like the horizontal slices of a very alien body put through an MRI machine. Disparate approaches to sound and stringed instruments stacked together in a neat package that seems to work as a whole, but you are not sure how. On any one track, you may be confronted with Bishiop-ian guitar smirks, whispered reversed scratches, a desert rock intro that suddenly freezes into an unmoving drone, or a sun-drenched guitar played so delicately if any lighter it would float away.

Derek Monypeny on the album:

"When I was first coming into musical consciousness, the records that had the strongest impact on me were the ones that felt like each track was its own self-contained universe. It was exhilarating to put these records on the first few times, hear the first track, and have NO idea or preparation for what might come next.

I'm not talking about "eclectic" genre-hopping. Human beings are multi-faceted, complicated, beautiful, sometimes ugly - so records made by human beings should be all those things too.

With "The Oppositional Imagination," I tried to make a record like this. The only thing these tracks have in common, besides instrumentation, is that I made them. And on this record, I'm making them all sit together, like kids squirming through their class picture. "

-Derek Monypeny, Yucca Valley, CA, January 2024

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released March 22, 2024

Derek Monypeny - Electric Guitar, Electric Oud (Track 3)

Recorded, Edited, and Mixed by Derek Monypeny
at Studio Pendejo. Yucca Valley, CA, in early 2022

Mastered by Mark Gergis

Artwork by John Hubbard
Derek Monypeny BMI

Thanks: Mark Gergis, John Hubbard
Sam Melancon, Heidi Schwegler

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Derek Monypeny Joshua Tree, California

Born in the Arizona desert, a veteran of multiple explorations into the Sahara desert via Morocco and Western Sahara, and now a resident of the Mojave, Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over. ... more

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