A.V. Sessions: The Cemetery Improvement Society's "Behind The Green Door"
The Cemetery Improvement Society was born nocturnal. Madison's Marc Claggett began the project sitting up after his work shift, putting together a rambling patchwork of programmed beats and disorienting samples, and eventually fleshing out a deconstructed-industrial sound with guitars, keyboard melodies, and a few different vocalists and collaborators on his 2009 album Lonely Dog Island. Always embodying the term "work in progress" in a good way, Claggett has moved TCIS on to its next frontier: more focused songs, and a concept album about prostitutes. Claggett and drummer Brad Hawes (who plays in local instrumental rock band Revolving Doors) joined us at Madison's DNA Studios for an exclusive live-in-studio performance of a new song, "Behind The Green Door." It's one episode from an in-the-works album entitled J.A.N.E., which Claggett says will tell the story of a woman's journey into the sex trade. It's a difficult subject to tackle (the album title stands for "just another neglected existence"), but Claggett and Hawes' electronic-on-acoustic beats, guitar melodies, keys, and dialogue samples on this song go for tension rather than sordidness.
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