The recording of Understand the Words was going steadily but slowly. In October 2006, I got former Frank’s Enemy drummer Alex A in to play drums on a few of the tracks. I put this sampler out in early 2007 when I finished mixing some of them. I also created individual graphics for each of the songs. They’re all in the digital booklet included with the mp3s. It’s also a five-song EP, despite the title, because Alex plays drums on four of the songs.

1. Great
2. Dead Aid
3. I’m Living My Lie
4. Love Is Pain
5. Fata Morgana

Words at Not Silent. Contemporaneous documentation at the blog.

(.zip/8MB)

Released in 2007. Three mixes of my cover of the Ciro Diaz-composed Porno Para Ricardo ballad “23.” More on Cuba’s favorite dissident punks at my blog. Stream song previews from their upcoming new record “The Red Album” here.