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Genre: Experimental
Tracks: 16 Release: Dec 7 2022
Each song presents with a carefully composed, accessible, relatively normal, though progressive, instrumental influenced by future synth, trip hop, a bit of galloping rock, and even elements of pop -- and then gloriously destroys itself. It messes up the settings with unexpected tones and deliciously deviant inappropriate virtual instrument choices. Tracks of acoustic melodica and flute, or synth, audaciously riff off the innocent melodies, having their hedonistic way with them. New potentials for vocals are ever-explored in unforeseen directions song by song.
Vocals carry scintillating emotions even when wordless, and some explore the range of creature calls like dolphins, horses, a duck, an otter, and a woman who is her own animal. Some pieces tell poetic stories, like "Be My Spider of Delight." Others, like "See No See" and "Rise" are sincere anthems against censorship. The moods range from eerie witchy, through joyfully playful, to dystopian.
Background: I was trained as a singer when young, traveling around the state to win competitions with German lieder and modernist works, and I also took advantage of a silver flute scholarship. I later taught myself to play piano by regularly traveling to a nearby mountain to visit an empty chapel built into a boulder, where the doors remained open. I play an inordinate number of instruments besides those, including guitar, bass, Thai khaen, Indian punji, Greek double shepherd's flute, drum kit, and many more. I produced the album in Berkeley.
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