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Sleep/Go (lost-&-found home recording #13)
Sleep was one of a trio of songs (including Willow & Lost) written around 2007 with a commissioned score in mind.
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Restraint (lost-&-found home recording #12)
The title was taken from a list of words I'd cut out of a dictionary, edited for obsolete myths or wishes.
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Faithful Shooter (since cassette demos 1997)
. . . an unresolved smear of time intermingling fugitive captivation & passionless industry . . .
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switchback
fueling speculation—5 (an oneiric read-along)
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November 2024

mobility
fueling speculation—4 (plus, Mood, recorded live 2016)
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interval
fueling speculation—3: a motel strip dotting a ganglia of business parks on the outskirts of Music City. . .
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perception
fueling speculation—2: even fleeting stars occasionally align
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Tom Merritt (spoon river demo)
This 8-track minidisc demo of Tom Merritt was the last track on a CD of reference mixes from 1997.
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October 2024

fringe
fueling speculation—1: . . . the sky is scarred in such short-lived streaks . . .
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Bagged—2 (buckle up)
Most were never worn, collected like postcards from anywhere.
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Bagged—1 (reliquary)
A deep attic excursion finds decades of undeveloped film recording the passing spoils, silent as a debris field. The question is: Do you want to know?
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teentown (an oneiric read-along)
In the lobby, the desk clerk, a teenager garbed in 1980’s 40-year-old IT tech, was plugged between a computer, a cell & a tablet.
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