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I've Lived So Long Tonight

by Cleers

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1.
Pink Dust 03:29
2.
Mary Anderson 03:24
3.
The Thirst 03:32
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Hound Dog Named Sugar Blue 03:28
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General Clerk Over the Coals 02:59
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March with the Girls 00:17
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Rubber Daylight 01:11
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Keith Richards and a Nun 01:22
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Maia’s Red Buckeye 04:03
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Aftermarket Friar 05:20
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You Were Meant For Me 01:35
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Disgraced in the Orchard II 04:32

about

From the mutant mind of Taylor Rouss comes a deep dive into supernatural free jazz that is sure to tingle the senses. Cleers is an improv unit led by Taylor on saxophones and game calls with various collaborators on an array of instruments. This collection offers a satisfying variety of sounds and group interplay, while achieving a consistent mood through Taylor's sense of humor and penchant for musical mischief. Character voices chime in out of nowhere and game call squealing suggest a cartoonish alien language. The album starts off with a musical dedication to Betty and Barney Hill, the first American couple to report being abducted by aliens in September of 1961. Things get stranger from there, but eventually wind up in the midst of performance recordings that capture the organic chemistry of a unique group, at a certain time and place on planet Earth.

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"Pink Dust" is dedicated to Betty and Barney Hill, the first American couple to report being abducted by aliens in September of 1961. Betty and Barney were driving through the mountains of New Hampshire when they saw a point of light which bounced around in the sky and eventually approached their vehicle. Several humanoid figures were seen in the windows of the craft which resembled the shape of a giant pancake. One figure communicated to Barney, telling him to "stay where you are and keep looking." The Hills quickly drove away but heard a rhythmic series of buzzing or beeping sounds vibrating their car and sending tingling sensations through their bodies.

They then experienced an altered state of consciousness and returned to awareness after having traveled 35 miles. (there's a lot more details to this story which are worth looking up!) After they returned home from their encounter, Betty noticed her dress was torn and hung it in the closet. She later took it out to hang on her clothesline and discovered a pink powder on the dress which blew away in the wind.

Continuing in a vein of music which evokes the stories of curious explorers, Cleers recorded a piece dedicated to Mary Anderson and her invention of the windshield wiper. In the first half of the piece, you may hear what it's like to drive without windshield wipers. The second half of the piece is the sound of driving with windshield wipers.

Mary was an entrepreneur who thought of the idea for the windshield wiper on a visit to New York in 1902. She was traveling aboard a trolly through the snowy streets, when she saw that the driver had to repeatedly get out of the trolly to clear the wet, icy windshield.
When she returned to Birmingham, she hired a designer to assist in the creation of a blade that could clear the window and be controlled from inside the vehicle. Anderson sought and received a patent for her invention in 1903.

A Hound Dog Named Sugar Blue is based around an improvised jam featuring T. Rouss on game calls and Jess Marie Walker on prepared bass and vocals. You can hear a snippet of her own tune Coffee Collard Water Sweet Black Coffee sung off-hand in the middle of the piece.
The track evolves as a sort of collaged call-and-response between Sugar Blue and the ducks and wild creatures she's hearing out in the woods. An eerie mist envelops all things....a distant bell's chimes are fragmented and diffused through the dense damp fog....

credits

released March 3, 2023

Taylor Rouss: saxophones, game calls, vox
Joel Nelson: guitar, trogo
Jasper Lee: saw, drums, pyraharp
Brent Stauffer: upright bass
Jess Marie Walker: prepared bass, tapes, vox
Charles Pagano: drums, percussion

Recorded & mixed by Jasper Lee
Art by Devon McFarland
Sweet Wreath 2023

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