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Crystal Stacks
04:30
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A poppy little bounce down the arpeggiator hall of mirrors goes quickly cracked, while vast depths open up under our feet, and time and space twist and bend light around gravity wells into the fresh, clean ambience of scientific safety.
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Our Place in the Splice
05:55
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Layers flap by, as we ascend on an elevator to the ether. A deliberate process of notes subtly change, and the essence of frames flipping past, one moment before the next, is borne up on golden tones of goodness and graciousness, both. Yes, it gets a little scary out there, but the music never stops asking you to see what it all really means.
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De Rerum Tempora
08:32
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Tempo flexes each flux, fancifully and frightfully. Slowed drums throb like sloppy hangovers, silver cascades shimmer, and the ineluctable passage of notes swells and falls. A tiny shower of wavelike horns pipe through the rain, bringing warmth and a revelation of gold. The song swings through many different approaches to tempo; tempo robbed, tempo constrained, tempo snapped, tempo over tempo, all set in a forest of tones and sonorities.
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March of the Black Drum
06:16
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Congo driven thumb pianos chime and chatter, like a techno stomp through a forest primeval, bugs buzz, ferns shiver, moist skinned beasts gleam in distant shadows. Once you reach the deathless river, insistent chords clang, and a macabre celebration shimmers through the hot fog. Always accompanied by benign spirits trilling trivialities, we trudge along the pathways, chins held high, fists clenched, upper lips taut under sweat. We take a dip deep in the stygian depths before the last march home.
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Semplodicus
07:49
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It sounds so free and industrious at first, happy little workers cranking huge bolts as one, before the wobble of the bearings starts up, blurring harmonies to compensate for the unsteady marriage of steps and systems. The beats sway drunkenly through subtle delays, and chimes climb up as beats back down. Yes, Semplodicus can get a little whiny, perhaps petulant, asking for some impossible “why” way too many times. But it all comes right back up to the jaunty strains of a snappy melody ascending nicely, underscored by the beat back again.
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Singleminded Cohesion
06:11
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A faint salutation, and then the theme is played out over a long series of tones, buttressed by happy commentary that turns celestial and grand. Plucked notes pop out of silence, then the dizzying whirlpool of wildly mutating yelps is swallowed up by a vicious, overbearing bug. When the bug goes we return to pleasantries, and sour melodies pucker up under the dancing swirls. A combination of themes reunite for the finale.
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Corporeal Sublimity
07:55
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Telegraphic tempos surrender to sibilant substances, and are in turn subsumed by chiming currents swirling in the flashing froth. A soothing series of tinkles and surging jerks of melody float us through the remainder of the middle, then a return to the haunting sadness of the opening theme takes us out.
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The Change Music Variety Show St Louis, Missouri
Performing and recording Change Music in Saint Louis since 1977.
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