BEHAVIOR: SHORT STORY

[Track list above will change during Beta.] Released commercially in 2001, the tracks above were the first project Michael McCann did working under the name ‘Behavior’. The original 13-track album has been discontinued and will be re-released as a shortened 8-track album titled “Short Story” at a later date. This was McCann’s first foray into more electronic pop, blending elements of trip-hop, trance, ambient and jazz. The track “Anywhere But Here” became the opening theme song for the 4-season dramatic series Regenesis (watch opening), and many of the other tracks on the album went on to be used in various trailers, commercials and compilations.

• Release: May 2001
• Produced, mixed, composed, arranged and performed by Michael McCann, except:
• Lyrics and vocals on Anywhere But Here by Andrea Revel. 
• The Freeman written by McCann & Kevin Olson. Guitar by Kevin Olson.
• So Much To Say written by McCann & Kevin Olson. Guitar by Kevin Olson.
• The Lonely written by McCann & Andrea Revel. Vocals by Andrea Revel. See ‘samples’ below). 
• Contradiction: vocals by Margo Timmins. See ‘samples’ below.
• Cover design by Michael McCann

*SAMPLES:

• Holy Thursday by David Axelrod [Anywhere But Here – Original Version only]
• Mining for Gold by The Cowboy Junkies [Contradiction]
• Tea With Sharmilla by Andrea Revel [The Lonely]
• All samples used with permission.

My first album working under the name ‘Behavior’ was written and produced in Calgary, Canada between 2000 and 2001 when I was about 24. The entire album was produced and mixed almost entirely on a Kurzweil K2000 and a very early version of Cubase. The original album title “The Story of the Mechanical Man” was inspired by Ralph Ellison’s novel ‘The Invisible Man‘. It was my intention with the album to experiment with as many genres as possible. My first album, Persona [1998 – working under the name Suture], was entirely electronic break-beat and I needed to expand into new territory. In the end, some of the experiments worked, others totally did not – i.e. tracks that didn’t make the new ‘Short Story’ release.