Fair is Foul is Fair
Dear everyone,
There is a new War Footing song out there now, in all the places, called “Fair is Foul is Fair,” and is a doozy. Let’s just get you linked to it right-quick on the double ex post haste:
I did not expect that to leap into fancy embed form on me, but there it is! You can purchase it for one dollar, but you could also pre-order the entire album which is so much more fun and brings me ever closer to my fantasy of jumping into a swimming pool full of cash.
If you go the preorder route, you’ll have three songs! (“Aspirational Gardening,” the aforementioned “Fair is Foul,” and an-as-yet-unreleased-except-via-bandcamp ditty called “Post Nova” that is about the act of making that very same song. Which puts me in mind of a college seminar in which Harold and the Purple Crayon was invoked and then someone found it interesting that he could not draw the tip of the crayon itself, which seemed not to be something he would want to do but regardless it was very literary.) There are also a la carte options available, but again, preorders are so much more fun in terms of getting more music and having a merry September 16 when the other tracks arrive as if by magic.
You should have been informed of this sooner, since I technically did the release on Friday, but my marketing strategy is based entirely on self-sabotage. I did, however, receive a most outstanding review from Two Story Melody.
It is SO NICE, almost uncomfortably so, but I am very, very glad that someone listened and got the message and appreciates all the things. I do wish she had mentioned Dan Trueman’s wall of fiddles, which is really a spectacular thing, and I do want to highlight that “Trueman” just autocorrected to “Trauma” and I wonder if “Dan Trauma” should be his stage name when we play this music and I can be the autocorrected version of myself so keep an eye out for the Andrew Mozzarella Band coming through your town if your town is one of the two in which we might play.
I wrote “Fair is Foul is Fair” in December of 2020, in the pictured basement. I kind of needed to in order to process the aftermath of the election. I have written a lot of political music before; most of it sounds rage-y and depends on athletic performance and aspires to the raised fist in solidarity. This one is different. It is not energetic and oppositional. It is just about trying to make it through the days, quietly and with some degree of care and kindness, in spite of it all. That continues to be where I am, and what I aim to do: walk through these trying times with my back straight, say something when I see something, care about things, a lot, and be honest about the circumstances of that caring.
I wish the same to all of you,
Andrea