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What’s it all about, Val?

Val Emmich’s excellent new album, “Aide Memoire,” is a nuanced rock record — at times whisper delicate and at times brusquely pointed — that also asks some pretty big questions.

Take the ethereal track “Wooly Mammoth.”

“I don’t know where that song came from,” said Emmich, a native of Manalapan. “It’s about the world we’re leaving to our kids. I had an almost apocalyptic vision of there’s so many people, and when we’re gone, what’s left? We’re just bones, just like the wooly mammoths.”

Emmich’s introspection was perhaps prompted by the arrival of a new baby nine months ago for he and his wife, who live in Jersey City.

Read the rest of the article by going to MyCentralJersey.com.

Val Emmich performing ‘Expecting’ from his Aide Memoire album at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH on 12/18/11.

Video filmed by: Dexcab

VAL EMMICH SONG OF THE DAY (12/14/11) - ‘Wooly Mammoths’

LYRICS:

the politics today
wont have any votes to sway.
they’ll be wooly mammoths
debating wooly mammoths.

the signs all point one way
but I still hear people say
“it’ll never happen.”
but it’s gonna happen.

so what am I to do?
I can’t buy a better view.
but it shouldn’t matter.
it shouldn’t matter.

but its so hard to ignore
the things that others afford.
its only matter.
I know,
its only matter.

but it gives me the sickest feeling.
it gives me the sickest feeling.
and its only getting worse.
its only getting worse.
its getting sadder.
I’m getting sadder.

and it gives me the sickest feeling.
it gives me the sickest feeling.
I want to pull the plug.
I want to pull the plug
and go to static.
just go to static.

let em have it.
just let em have it.
those wooly mammoths.
wooly mammoths.

You can purchase this song, ‘Wooly Mammoths’ or the entire album it’s on, ‘Aide Memoire’ on iTunes or CDBaby.com.