Imagine that you have set out across the Pacific Ocean in a straw outrigger on a quest for gold, your course carefully plotted by following the stars. One night, you are distracted by the sparkling Pleiades constellation, a star cluster that is known as a birthing ground of new suns. You revise your course, it leads you across treacherous waters to a fertile island of beautiful sirenas– Seven Sisters / Seven Seas.
Remember those gory driver’s education movies you saw in High School? Our favorite was Red Asphalt, and we promise to never speed again, Officer!
We have a fan who lives in the town of Dripping Springs, TX. We also have a fan who lives in the equally descriptive “Stillwater, OK” but we’ll save that title for the next album.
We have seen more than a few clubs near closing time— where the drunks have been face down on the bar so long, their eyes have moved over to one side of their face, just like a halibut. Yet, at the end of the night, they still try to pick up the drunk ladies with a peculiar stagger-dance that we call the Bottom Feeder Boogie.
In Philip K. Dick’s brilliant novel about, uh, everything (ubiquity that is) a product called UBIK causes items not just to decay, but to devolve, meaning that this CD would turn into a phonograph, a wax cylinder, and finally an 8-Track tape.
Based on the self-hating Hungarian Minor scale (no fourth!) favored by the nomadic Magyar gypsies, Magyara is dedicated to the Baron Sepy Dobronyi.
Did you know that amniotic fluid has the same saline content as sea water? Mare Amniotica is for the mother ocean where all life began. Edvard Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King has been a staple of the PDM set list since 1994; we hope we finally got it right.
As Above, So Below is a phrase suggesting consistent design structure on all levels, allowing you to feel an empathy for concepts you can’t know.
Inspired by the movie Apocalypse Now, The Clash wrote Charlie Don’t Surf, which has nothing at all to do with surfing and everything to do with megalomania. In memory of Joe Strummer.

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Credits

The Pollo Del Mar players present:
“The Golden State”

Dramatis Personae, in order of appearance:
Jeremy Rexford: Drums and Percussion
Ferenc Dobronyi: Guitar, Baritone Guitar
Jefferson Turner: Bass, Fretless and 5-String
Jono Jones: Guitars, Electric and Accoustic

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by
Gary Mankin (The Man Behind The Curtain)

Shaker on Bottom Feeder Boogie by Shig “33”
Accordion on Magyara by Libby McLaren
Amniotic heartbeat courtesy of Sasha Waldorf

Golden Mermaid: Monica, the Tiki Goddess
Photography and Design: Ferenc Dobronyi
“UBIK - Live” directed by Ron Grandia

Thanks to: Phil Dirt and all at KFJC, Arturo Bourasseau, Pamela Lillig, Yuzo Sasaki,  Steve Tinsky, Sedge Thompson and West Coast Live, Jamie Murray, Robert Friedrickson and the HBISM, Andy French and The Speakeasy Brewery, The Hotel Utah, Masakazu Sakuma, Matt Kora, Andy Vaughan, Chris Jones, Ursula Rodriguez, Vise Grip, Hans Kohls, David Arnson, Dusty Watson, Mel Spinella, Alan “California Kid” Parowski, Will the Thrill, Vicky Davis, Ron Grandia,  and Don Vigeant.

We are in good company: Insect Surfers, The Hypnotic IV, Slacktone, The Migs, The Surf Coasters, The Mach IV, The Surf-Liners,  Anacondas, Boss Martians, The Pyronauts, The Infrareds, Daikaiju, The Aqua Velvets, The Nebulas, Surf Cinema, The Lava Rats, Susan & The Surftones, The Balboas, 3 Balls of Fire, Sub-Mersians, Shi-tones, Sub Arachnoid Space, Shig & Buzz, and all bands dedicated to instrumental music!

With appreciation for the loan of instruments, amps and scuba tanks: Peter Brown, John Hamilton, Mel Waldorf, Geoff Heinemann and Paul Rodler.

All songs (C)(P) 2004 Ferocious Doberman Music, (BMI) and Vulnavia’s Ride Music (BMI) administered by Bug Music except: "Charlie Don’t Surf" (Strummer/Jones, Universal MCA Music Pub); "Hall of the Mountain King" (Edv. Grieg, arr. PDM)