Ethan Jones Believes in Nothing and Falls for Everything is the 2nd full-length album by Omaha, NE artist and musician, Ethan Jones.
While his first full-length, McMcCartney, was not a planned release (songs were culled from home-recorded demos that were intended as material for a live band, then were polished up and finished by Jones during the peak of the pandemic), Ethan Jones Believes in Nothing and Falls for Everything was intentional. While Covid transformed Jones into a solo artist, creating McMcCartney without input, collaboration, or performances by other musicians opened up a totally new, self-reliant way of creating music.
With the ability to play, record, program, and experiment with all instruments himself, from 2021-2022, Ethan Jones set out to make a 2nd album in his basement using the same low-budget gear he used to make McMcCartney. This time around, Jones wrote and recorded all of the songs using a Yamaha DD-8 (a very basic, non-programmable, lo-fi drum machine) as a metronome - using the steady, unchanging beats as a foundation to build the songs. After the bulk of the songs were recorded, Jones sent the recording sessions to friend Steven Rikkers in Madison, WI. Rikkers recorded live drums for 4 of the 8 songs, playing along to the DD-8 beats in the midst of recovering from a major surgery. In some cases the drum machine tracks were removed, and in other cases the drum machine was left in to accompany Rikkers’ live drum tracks for a double percussion effect.
The new album was again mixed by Drew Rudebusch at Bright Black Studio in Kansas City, but on this album Rudebusch was given free reign to produce the songs however he saw fit, with very little input from Jones. The finished collaboration between Jones writing, recording, and performing all of the songs, Rikkers adding live drums to half the songs, and Rudebusch mixing and producing the album, resulted in Ethan Jones 2nd full-length album, Ethan Jones Believes in Nothing and Falls for Everything.
While much of the album was directly inspired by Frank Herbert’s classic science-fiction series, Dune(which Jones read thousands of pages of during the duration of writing and recording the album), there is also a large vein pumping dark humor throughout the album. Jones addresses real life issues here… his hatred for technology, the loss of a beloved family dog, hypochondria, and general malaise. Ethan Jones Believes in Nothing and Falls for Everything is a daring album that doesn’t really sound like anything - which he created with a newfound confidence, discovered in isolation, that showcases his gifts as a songwriter and musician, and uses anti-social traits of his personality to a unique advantage.
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