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A Sonic Collaboration of the Dear, Near and Far

by AAYOTEE

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Capital Cuts 03:37
There's a hole in the sky and we'll all lift our faces Crying for children who won't go to heaven 'Cus capitol cuts 'em in all upper cases Burn in the yard with the bones and discard What is known on the wall Down in God's favorite basement Lit from a light in the hole in the sky
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Telephones on curly cords and bedroom walls Blow out the candle, ride the tide Graffiti by flashlight I'll never get caught in the radio tune The actor rests, but the feel refuses to go And so it goes another way Everyone might be spared The shame that goes with having a soul But oh the days keep bounding on I swear the sun's got it out for us Book upon book, books upon tables upon yarn I never sought naught Torn up, eyes blood shot Blinking shadows among the dew The rain, the steam, the radio tune
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Wind 02:05
Hear your voice as wind again Hear your voice as leaves
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Deep Coast 10:28
I Down in the deep coast the folk smoke and talk about the girl who wanders without a sound through the coastal pines of town “she’s got a hole in her head and seawater in her heart” The many suspect that her fate is the worst of all “Boast she cannot of home or hearth nor offer any account of her past pain or joy” the many say “Dearest Gloria, hums and hunts and builds and breaks down in the disordered rows of the deep coast II Gloria was born without love or light she was cast into gray still warm from the womb born to folk who spent their days chasing a spectre a refrain from the pain & some grace notes of pleasure they hadn’t a taste for guardianship nor could they afford it thus on the day of her birth her makers made a choice to cast the babe aside just out of reach from a frigid riding tide laid eyes on Gloria one last time then turned away On the shore alone tangled in veins of sand and snow Gloria witnessed her first sunrise III Though as fate would have it the babe was soon found by another orphaned off-spring of night hopelessly parting the sand took her by the hand to a house of god but in Bethel Gloria was not numb to the torment of displacement she awoke each morning feeling like a house built on stilts Ostensibly baseless & all day wandered ‘round hummed ‘long to the sound of her steps upon the hollow grounds of the compound after she’d grown listless enough emerged from the mazes of god’s embrace A leaper eager to kneel at the site Of her own Conception Though early in her journey she was just a piece down the road when a storm front on the coast made its way inland & in the surge winds gave rise to cruel ribbons of things much tougher than bone in the hale of debris Gloria was dealt A mighty blow to her head though the gash didn’t leave her for dead IV Down in the deep coast the folk smoke and talk about a certain figure free from the torment of solitude and though she cannot remember or speak she is an agent that moves mindfully undaunted by progress and wants nor needs the scaffolding of memory She has never known nor kept any permanent address And never receives notice of entropy She was reborn in a grove of coastal pines & has since never bore in mind more than one slice of life at a time At the end of each day when the sleeper takes her place Memories are effaced when at last she does awake her soft eyes fare her well down in the disordered rows of the deep coast
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Izraslo dŭrvo visoko- Vrŭh mu oprelo vŭv sinjo nebe Kloni mu oprelo vŭv dolna zemja Vŭv golemi, mamo, beli manastiri, Manastiri, mamo, Sveta Maria Na rŭce dŭrži Boga Hristosa Em si go ljulja, em si se moli: “Rasti mi rasti, dete porasti Ta da si zeme zemja I nebo, Ta da si zeme zemja I nebo. Zemja ti baština, nebe ti djadovo, Zemja ti baština, nebe ti djadovo.”
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Casio Floes 05:29

about

In an attempt to capture transience 30 people came together in 2016 to create a studio album by the end of the year.
With each artist wielding curious talents each song was created with one or two takes per instrument using old ideas and new spontaneous improvisations in whatever space invited them.
Most of the tunes were successfully written and recorded within 2016 with a few exceptions.
Mixing and the rest of it would be done over the next two years after the initial session.


Recorded, mixed and produced by Kevin Dacey
Mastered by Alex Sargent
Cover art by Jeffery Nowlin
Graphic design by Alex Derderian


Recorded at:
The Beauparlant Residence, West Newbury, MA
The Faneuil Family Lodge, Brighton, MA
Zach Field Drum Studios, Newburyport, MA
The Cabin, Rivière-Rouge, Quebec
The Barn, Dummerston, VT
Joe's Bedroom, Somerville, MA
Palana's Studio, NH

credits

released April 5, 2018

Teddy Beauparlant – percussion, gang vocals on 1 | drum set, recorder on 2 | lyrics, vocals on 2, 5 | six bass steel drum, percussion swells on 5 | Korg Volca Keys on 5, 6, 10, 11 | composition, arrangement on 5

Palana Belken – words, speech on 9

Tabitha Celani – vocals on 1, 2, 10

Justin Cole – electric guitar on 5 | Korg Volca Keys, tambourine on 10

Austin Condee – processed electric guitar on 9, 11

Kevin Dacey – percussion, drums, gang vocals on 1 | lyrics on 2, 5 | vocals on 2, 5, 10 | recorder on 2 | drum set on 2, 5, 9 | shaker on 3 | kalimba loops on 4 | samples on 4, 5, 9, 10 | midi synth on 5, 9 | marimba on 5, 10 | vibraphone, glockenspiel, triple cello steel drum, six bass steel drum on 5 | tenor steel drum on 6 | clicks, clacks on 7 | amplified metal on 9, 11 | toy keyboard, clacks on 10 | temple blocks, coffee cans, splash cymbal on 11 | composition on 4, 5, 9 | arrangement on 5, 6, 7, 10, 11

Joe D'Amore – words, speech on 6 (with special thanks to Chloe Tetson)

Genna Degroot – composition, lyrics, vocals, percussion on 1 | vocals on 7

Alex Derderian – Casiotone on 2, 11* | lyrics on 2

Danny Dugan – gang vocals on 1 | brushes on 3 | mridangam on 7 | log drum moans on 9 | snare drum, trash cymbal on 11

Eddie Gaudet – acoustic guitar, vocals on 2 | drum set on 5 | bass drum on 7 | vocals on 10 | floor tom on 11

Johnny Gelsomini – upright bass on 5

Charlie Gregson – muddled and scrambled remix arrangement on 8*

Joey Hartigan – bongos, cabasa, glockenspiel on 11

Emma Jones – vocals on 1, 2, 10 | piano on 5

Jordan Lenes – percussion on 1 | gang vocals on 1, 2 | recorder on 2 | acoustic guitar on 10

Liam Leonard-Solis – vocals on 5

Ray McNamara – drums on 1 | vocals on 2, 3 | lyrics, Korg MS-20, recorder on 2

Ryan McNamara – percussion, gang vocals on 1 | lyrics, vocals, acoustic guitar, bowed vibraphone on 3 | mini guitar on 9, 11 | samples, electric guitar on 9 | composition on 3, 9

Eden Rays – cello on 5

Duncan Tarr – gang vocals on 1 | electric bass on 3

Jason Toney – recorder on 2 | effected zither-thing on 6, 10 | Korg MS-20 on 11

Josh Torvi – electric guitar on 2, 5, 11 | gang vocals, recorder on 2

Chelsea Ursin – gang vocals on 1 | triangle on 7 | vocals, percussion on 10


Additional gang vocals by Zoey Jackson, Collin Tarr on 1
Additional vocals and percussion by Jake Gilbertson, Tiffany Gosheff, Aiden Scott on 10


*11 was arranged around Alex Derderian's Casiotone improvisation.
*8 was originally recorded as a cover of hit a 1977 tune but was then remixed by Charlie Gregson.

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