These tracks were made 2016-2017, and then they waited until now.
They are part of my explorations into beat deconstruction, a lot of which used my live improvisation set-up, so they're characteristically noisy and brambley. This album was originally intended to be a cassette release, and track 9 was to be a digital bonus track.

Cover art is by David Porter, just look at it!
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dates of primary assembly (and dates of individual components):
1 111217 (031117 092417)
2 031817 (080910 031917)
3 032517
4 122917 (020109 030709 071710 080611)
5 090416a (012610 090516 032617)
6 090416b (012610 090516 032617 031117)
7 090516a (040116 090516)
8 090516b (120407 082708 090516 032617)
9 050117
sampled: Maurizio, Raime, Alan Watts, deepchord

"Now, what do people like to do when they don’t have to do anything? Well, as far as I can make out as you look all over the world, they like to get together and do something rhythmic. They may dance, they may sing, they may even play games—because, say, in playing dice there’s a certain wonderful rhythm to shaking the cup and rolling the dice out on the table. Or dealing cards: Tsu-tsu-tsu-tsu-tsu-tsu-tsu Wwrrrrrrtt! Crrrck! You know? All the things that people like to do and think about: these rhythms. Or some people like to knit, and this is a rhythmic thing, you see? Others just like to breathe. There are all sorts of ways in which we love to do this.

Now you see, our very existence is a rhythm of waking and sleeping, eating, and moving—and that’s all we’re doing. Just consider what we do every day. What’s it all about? Does it really mean anything? Does it go anywhere? It’s just because we want to keep on doing this kind of a hoop-de-dah. So you can get a certain vision of life where everything is seen to be a complex pattern of rhythm. Dances. The human dance, the flower dance, the bee dance, the giraffe dance. And these are also comparable to various games: poker, bridge, backgammon, chess, checkers, et cetera, or to various musical forms: sonata, fugue, partita, concerto, symphony, or whatever.

And that’s what this all is: it’s jazz, you see? This is a big jazz, this world. And what it’s trying to do is to see how jazzed up it can get, how far out this play of rhythm can go. Because that what we all come down to, you see? We’re going this di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-di-DI-di-di-di-di in every conceivable way. So then that is why, you see, this fundamental view that the world is play." - Alan Watts, The Rhythmic Dance

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