What is the perfect sentence?
What started as a short story ended up as an auditory experience, a fully produced concept album, half autobiographical, half fictional, based on childhood memories and modern trends of misinformation.
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It all began with a death of a friend, one who was important to me growing up but whom I hadn't connected with in years. As I searched for understanding, I realized that so much of our own experiences is filtered in serval different ways; our own memories, perception, and various forms of information received. How reliable can that be? How reliable are our own memories? How reliable is anything at the end of the day? The Perfect Sentence seeks to ask difficult questions related to some heady topics. Dense, entertaining, funny, silly, sincere, experimental, and sad, this is an album that tells a story unlike anything you've heard before.
Credits
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Words and Lyrics: Jeff Van Dreason
Music written and performed by: Oliver Morris and Jeff Van Dreason except where noted below.
Produced, Mixed, and Engineered by Oliver Morris and Jeff Van Dreason
Drums: Jim Johanson
Saxophone: (on Dear Jesus and The World's Greatest Sinner): Ryan Emken
Fiddle - Dirk Tiede (on Wrong Answers Only)
Saxophone: (on The Passion of Joan of Arc) Joshua Lankford
Directed by Bob Raymonda and Jeff Van Dreason
Dialogue Edited by Bob Raymonda
Vocals:
A - Jeff Van Dreason
Jimmy - Ty Wilkins
Mandy - Ishani Kanetkar
Margaret Sanger - Laura Mirsky
Timothy Carey - Josh Rubino
Joan of Arc - Jordan Stillman (also Chorus)
Alice Walker - Jes Washington
Jesus Christ - Tal Minear (also Chorus)
Dead Herman Cain - Jordan Higgs (Also Chorus)
Edward Albee - W Keith Tims
George Bernard Shaw - Andrew Latherton (Also Chorus)
James Joyce - JD Dennis and Kaya Renwick (Also Chorus)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Rosie Sentman (Also Chorus)
Vladimir Nabakov - Gem Aydin (Also Chorus)
Jordan McKenzie - Kiara Bouyea
Virginia Woolf - Maddy Searle (Also Chorus)
Unconvinced Student - Jay Mags (Also chorus)
George Elliot / Disconnected Voice - Emily Battles (Also Chorus)
Franz Kafka - Jack Fitzpatrick (Also Chorus)
Jean-Paul Sartre - Tempest Wisdom (Also Chorus)
Elon Musk - Daisy McNamara (Also Chorus)
Editor - Alexander Danner
A ThirdSight Media Production
Executive Produced by Gideon Media
Produced by Jeff Van Dreason, Oliver Morris, Bob Raymonda, Melissa Panio-Petersen, Julia Schifini, Neil Johnson, Hug House Productions, Bridge Geene, Katrina Horton, Timescanner, Jack Macdonald, Lauren Shippen, Mark H. Healy, Eric Propp, Eric Van Dreason, Julia Propp, Greg Sisson, Tau Zaman, Ella Watts, Jack Marone, PJ Scott-Blankenship, Dan McIntyre, Marnie Warner, Jackie Cornog, Johanne Tournie, Barb Benicasa, Yhane Smith, Sean Williams, Anne Blashcke, Morgan Livesay, Randi Korn, Emily Palomo, Andrew Klassen, Meaghan Reed, Summer Unsinn, Jim Danilla, Tina Case, Kathryn Utke, Brandon Crose, Josh Burgess, Phoebe A. Seiders, Emilie Robichaud, John Erwin, Blythe Danner, Blair Danner, Lisette D Alvarez, Amber Devareux, Molly Wolf, Faith McQuinn, Jordan Cobb, Tal Minear, Craig Kozeluh, Richard Wentworth, Steve Polakiewicz, Noba Acecassis, Merely Matt, Michael Melia, Nicole Geiger, Marguerite McNamera, Lithe Wendt-Namore, JSM Reader.
Dedicated to Matt. JAM Forever.