Preface
"Somewhere, metabounded nowhere,
there may arise
a language which might be a music
a music which might be a language:"
- Benjamin Boretz "Language, as a music"
Texts
Recorded
May 3, 2020
15xxoxooxoxoooxo - Paul Rubinstein [from Solo Trios]
it might be about its microtonal type mode
in a familiar sense to which any other music might be
or it might be its microtonal type mode
in order to more distinctly separate the voices from each other
Banned Rehearsal 925 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy [December 2016]
free reeds reach
along the coast
we adjust to each other's intensity of engagement
so that risks can be taken to expand the frame of engagement
{note to self: Anchorage is more present, when present, than in 924,
but it could be spread throughout by looping}
{{they came such a long way after all}}
What Good Am I To You Now? - Curtains for You [from After Nights Without Sleep]
the ordering of song parts
can also shuffle the sense of what a chorus means
or approach it from other angles
Be Free - No Rey [from Contradictions]
The backup singers sound like The Fleetwoods, down to the riff and balance of voices.
The Phone Message - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]
drums and prevocal gruntings
Aokigahara - Arbor Towers [from In Transit EP]
slowly accumulating interlocking containers
succession matters
rudimental drumming marches on!
Song from the Storms and the Winds (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
a steady tone interacts with the recorded sound of thunder
Above - India Glover [from Pup Demo]
This recording allows, amplifies, the narrowness of the distance between me, listening, and her, singing, and strumming, with her finger nails.
Brimstone - High Class Wreckage [from High Class Wreckage]
most righteous ride at the fair
ever
Bearded Lady - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]
lovely actually
Mistress of the Stone - Courtney Marie Andrews [from No One's Slate is Clean]
complaint poem
accusation poem
goes deeper than you want
Killer's Moon - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live]
melter of walls
more of the most righteous
Flour - Whitney Ballen [from White Feathers, White Linens]
tempting spider
un self a ware
spider
aware
(sents)
((scents))
(((cents)))
Rose - Ease [from Roots]
working on a morbidly particular terroir of technologically weirded sound space image
a pathology
Where I Wanna Be - SmokeStack and the Foothill Fury [from America's Freedom Death March]
trope: I'm proud of where I'm from :: You aren't :: Take it back
class distinctions at ground level
Jealousy - Choke the Pope [from Emotional Material]
This could be a song in Inside Out Two
May 5, 2020
Dead Moons - Yuni in Taxco [from Sanpaku]
for an actor
singing to an actor
on a stage
who ya wanna be?
congealed mass
manufactured real space
I'm not sure I entirely believe that the snare drum's sympathetic acoustic response wasn't added later
Come On Friends - Robber's Roost [from Swallow Your Fears]
yee haw!
happy happenstance that found Karen and me on the same street corner as a busking Mark Paschen in Ellensburg on that strangely windless night these years ago
Beloved - Shelby Earl [from Burn The Boats]
so many mirrored texts
the tune goes by so easy
FFFA - Tyler Daniel Bean [from On Days Soon to Pass]
epistolary line
fill in the details of your situation
moodish
aiming for a bit part in a soundtrack
(not so distracting as to frighten a director)
Different Peoples' Perception of The Same Thing - Operation ID [from Legs]
there is no thing to be the same as
(no location where comparison can occur)
Blast Off - Lunas [from Over Me]
isolation ward cell wall rage
Wonderful - White Orange [from White Orange]
narrating its own power stasis brick wall
it's all in my head
Along the Tay - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
(looking back) (having gone back) (borrow history) (hitch a ride)
Slow Charade - Yuni in Taxco [from Slow Charade]
lots of strumming
Waiting - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks II]
transparently heavy
massive dense
mountain sized elephant seal
Twang - Jim Knodle - Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble [from Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Volume 1]
clown march!
through the decades
party on!
clowns!
a flirty wave
from behind the curtain
out
Degradation - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]
The problem with protesting everybody is that the crossfire can't be dodged
especially if you pay attention
Goodbye - Eddie Vedder [from Ukulele Songs]
plays all his tricks with tunes and words
but didn't finish
Crage Against - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]
brand name hullabaloo
May 6, 2020
Imaginary Perspective - Triptet [from Imaginary Perspective]
sustained tones on sax and electric guitar move in breath shaped flanges
utterly remaking the percussion chatter into quasi-breath shaped flanges
as they themselves are minutely measured by its various articulations
sinews and vertebrae
Diaper Bitch - Three Fingers [from Go Deep]
short line bare
statements of fate
late fetish Velvet U
Time - Star Anna and The Laughing Dogs [from Alone In This Together]
absolute internally intimate aggressive empathy as a starting point
the room
is small
you are
in it
with this
Celilo Falls - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]
the message as told from outside the story
as though we weren't part of it
not our story to tell as though from outside of its benefits and debts
educational diversion from our ugly part
some sort of cover as drunkenly announced
slow jammish
then explodes furious at its own weakness
rage rage
but tired
slack
Plastic Ducks - No Rey [from Contradictions]
epistle in relationship extremis
gone off the poetic rails
admirably non global
non universal
too much underlining
Track 4 - Pouch [Live at the Funhouse, July 2011]
how to score the opening of a Jarmusch movie
speeding through Manville
early AM ghost town
camera aimed rearwards
Histrionic - Arbor Towers [from In Transit EP]
as though the sound has all been soaking in the same brine too long
no effect will ever correct a flaw
like wearing the wrong clothes for you
1/2 a song at most
Always On - High Class Wreckage [from High Class Wreckage]
moment freak
cliche
if it weren't for the gut suck hollow micromoments
catching on the ribs ahead of breath
They Say - India Glover [from Pup Demo]
finding or exploring ways through a text
provisional
toe in water here then there
Human Connection (Side A) - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]
recorded in a large, distant acoustic
microphones placed exactly 1.3 meters in
from the point where the sound mushes entirely
the sense of the sound is all that's left
reverb demo
Superwizard - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks Live]
from outer space
character assertion
like a costume
piercings tattoos
preened feathers
Papageno
Here and Heaven - Goat Rodeo [from The Goat Rodeo Sessions]
Its relation to, say, bluegrass, is like that of jazz choir arrangement to Duke Ellington
Outro - Ease [from Roots]
because song cycle?
so that, smart?
The Great War - Curtains For You [from After Nights Without Sleep]
a pleasingly shapely song
the pregnant 18th Century sudden pause is alive and well
My Car - Choke The Pope [from Emotional Material]
lame statement lifted into a song
though lifted may be overstating the case
the interval from the statement's bare bones lameness
to the particular lackadaisical song affect
is a half-assed humor of the novelty song type
straight from the dropout corps
Songbird and Stillness (underlying electronic track) - S. Eric Scribner [from The Storm Sound Cycle]
what does not demand attention loses attention
unless you hold on
intently
all brought low
baring the mechanism's deaf spot
evacuating into the void of aesthetic chaos
where we would listen from
is gone
Nineteen - SeaStar [from Never Go Back]
price paid
worker lost blues
nineteen souls
ghost wail
hand stones and head songs
cost paid
we owe them
13xoxxoxooxoxxo - Paul Rubinstein [from Solo Trios]
(blogger listening with headphones)
each ear is severed from the other
split head
and the ear in the middle
also
from the other two
unfinessed
an experimental control
hard global distancing
neither of the three has an effect upon any other of the either two
no help from me
you've got to put it together yourself
reveals negatively the degree to which our human-stereo audition helps ontologize the cross-sequencing of disparate parts,
as though a part of our experiencing was set to zero, turned off
Mystery 7 (now "Benediction"? - Ancient Warlocks [from Ancient Warlocks II]
like an extracted voice from Scarlatti
it has a similar flavor of pattern play
wordless
Pist Office - Full Toilet [from Full Toilet 7"]
parts compressed and curtailed
28 seconds
This Year - Robber's Roost [from Live in Minneapolis]
(it's about last year)
everything is nothing
as it seems
Ballad of a Home Once Left - Courtney Marie Andrews [from No One's Slate is Clean]
a parent's letter to a leaving leaver
advice
hope
small intimate
full
but not inflated
Perry Mason - Chaotic Noise Marching Corps [from Zero to Lizard Man]
from the playlist of any 1975 middle school band concert
with enthusiasm!
Jeff Buckley - Whitney Ballen [from White Feathers, White Linens]
stays small
in its room
takes a look at the window
returns
Only The Weakest - Robber's Roost [from Swallow Your Fears]
will prevail
persona as ethos
In Session at the Tintinabulary and Outposts
Bannedecameron 200504 Maple Leaf Lake City - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Neal Kosály-Meyer
STE-023 200504 - Aaron Keyt
the porch being chilly that night
Neal dials in
Aaron downloads us
and plays along
Postscripts
in person fetched away h'm said hans
behind the scenes then yes for the most part
but possibly might now you the thing to
time
blunders ahead
clouds arrive
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