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1.
The Song on the Beak 03:04
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I—what can I want? Select every weight and conscious unto I’d communicate under a pile of bones or burnt cream until the crops are sown and the butter is left on the sill Sunrise! Worm-wise! Congeal commiserate the song on the beak
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Calm Before the Storm 03:57
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Brain another name another I can see Why sufficing Why completely Bane another grain another heartening Whereas dreaming Whereas completely why or whereas why The pouring the pacing the calming why
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Child of the Telegraph 03:20
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Made up plans Doffed the sowed Bleeted close to mired Resumed by noon Spent in town Feeling well Blanket white knell Made up plans —Spent in town Doffed the sowed —Feeling well Bleeted close to mired Will be in touch again soon
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The Visit 03:22
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“I’m passably wiser now ostensibly lean simply a modicum a bean a little wiser now and then” The train was nearly empty as I neared the end The platform empty too except for a woman reading the news on a bench near the ticket booth She ignored me so I ignored her too In his letter he had asked my to bring some bread which I had planned to buy in the city but found a shop in town instead Figured he would like something he was used to better anyway Oh me! How I’ve dreaded this visit this awkward stop in life this walk down the road to the house that’s gone decrepit over the years through this door that could use better hinges to this room to him standing there “Did you bring the bread?” A little wiser now and then We smiled and shook hands A little wiser now and then
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Return Trip Home 04:43
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Bonds of better things that make us have homes of higher sames and linking lands Bonds of better things… Bonds of better things…
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Henry's Afternoon with Family 02:14
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“I can contemplate a phantom or a tut” my father said as he stood up and went into the kitchen for the kettle “Quarterly the pine bird sings for chocolatey the cough” he said returning with the tea that he’d made for me, himself, his aunts, and his sister “Don’t let the further monkey brain frenetically begot bereft of pretend” I nodded, as his aunts chatted loudly with his sister “Mostly toast the most, I tell you, lest you writhe the day” my father said sipping tea so quietly focusing his eyes on something far away “Henry came home He stayed about and hour-and-a-half”
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The Farm 01:52
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Showing a time flow uphill Slowing control of the till Viewing the sky as a ceiling Facing the sun down I concur Somewhere removed I concur Vaguely to die Furrowed in hell Browsing through loss Breathing and well Seeking a light meal
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Christmas Recital, 1924 01:21
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So long as goodness keeps wise and kind to me sighing in my dreams waiting patiently Humbling boast please wake our host Another day I’d like to see
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Interview with My Great-Grandfather 03:45
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“Honorific in the garden of old suffering a lingering medal of goals” *What are your strengths?* I can count I can lead in the best of times I can help rid the garden of mold *What are your thoughts on death?* Plant a cell Purposefully resign to the bell in the garden of gold *What might your family say about you?* —I miss the fields of lions —I miss the caudate of the sighs —It’s for me to scythe I can count the garden stones *What are your plans for the future?* —Oh my! I can leave the garden alone
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Nostalgia 00:54
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And so on knowing taking a fond scene “Go back home to Mom and see what she says” “The food is hot so eat it now and then take some to Dad”

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I don’t remember if I read it somewhere or inferred it from the music itself, but in September 2014 I wanted to try to record an album using a method used by The Residents and Charles Bobuck: I would record some free form noodlings and whatnot and then splice them up in order to create new compositions. I also wanted to try (as I might) to record a more “professional” sounding album in terms of mixing and mastering, again inspired by Charles Bobuck. I didn’t begin the album with any subject matter in mind, but after awhile one idea took hold: I had spent the previous year or so digging in to my family’s genealogy, finding records online, getting information and photographs from my family, and visiting areas of the United States where my ancestors had lived, visiting the small towns and graveyards. The album cover itself is from an old photograph of a farmhouse that members of my family had lived in. It was against this backdrop, then, that I wrote “Americana”.

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released November 3, 2014

recorded September–October 2014

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