Written by Kurt Ares, James Lucier, and me (Randy) way back in like 1994. Ancient!

Older song, reworked string section, and now with a muted trumpet line by the phenomenal Sam Bunker.

Originally from 2000 or so, recorded on the old StarMax mac clone waaaay back. Redid just about everything in the intervening years, including new vocals today.

Another song, cleaned up from 2005

Frequent collaborator Bryn Corbett aka Particledots sent me manipulated electric piano tracks and I a returned a mix and stems with multiple Pro-One tracks from which he created the final mix. He wields a mean blender.

I recorded a four track synth piece with Chris Cochrane in mind. We went into my studio together and he laid down 4 tracks of electric guitar in response to my piece - which I later edited and mixed.

David Thomas sent me an electronic drum piece that had great space and possibilities to work with. I found myself working in a drone mode to counter his more active parts.

This is the first piece that I recorded - just after midnite on Feb. 1st. with Anne Cozean in mind as vocalist. Anne and I have worked together before and she delivered a great performance across two tracks. I was thinking Portishead going in…

Yves Baar sent me a midi piano file from Belgium and I found that if I slowed it down 20% and converted the piano to trombone and french horns that I was able to work closely with the synth - doubling and countering his melody.

Found myself in something of a Teutonic state when I created a heavy track using white noise for percussion accents along with deep foreboding lines. What better instrument to mix in than Banjo? I knew Jim Bouchard would kill it and he did. Even…

Michael Marquesen suggested that he was going to add manipulated vocals to whatever I sent him - so I left the melody pretty open but attempted to create a full range bed with percussive elements for him to wok with. Not having drums at my disposable…

Bryn dropped and alternative track in our box that was culled fro his previous elemnts but manipulated into a lurching schizoid glitch piece that I loved. So - I slowed it down and used noise removal in Audacity to add more strangeness to it…