"In this music, a melody is as free to roam thru tonal space as a painter is free to draw & paint free lines, free curves, create free shapes... In FREE MUSIC the various tone-strands (melodic lines) may each have their own rhythmic pulse (or not), if they like; but one tone strand is not enslaved to the other (as in current music) by rhythmic same-beatedness. In FREE MUSIC there are no scales - the melodic lines may glide from & to any depths & heights of (practical) tonal space, just as they may hover about any 'note' without ever alighting upon it... In FREE MUSIC harmony will consist of free combinations (when desired) of all free intervals - not merely concordant or discordant combinations of set intervals (as in current music), but free combinations of all the intervals (but in a gliding state, not needfully in an anchored state) between present intervals..."
-Percy Grainger

Cigarette twirling, head burning, whispers murmuring. Im dancing in the street feeling my feet, blood drip dropping soaking the fresh sleet. There is a dog looking at me and i will give it love oh a fiddle dee dee. Nothing in this world could ever hurt me because I am happy as can be. My insurance is no longer free, maybe ill get paralyzed have more time to read. Maybe ill get breathalyzed spend more time on my feet. I cant afford these lays ill have old dutch mesquite because everything is happy as it can be.

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I composed this music in the late summer of 2020, after getting the idea walking around Boston. The seventh track was mostly composed about two years prior. I started recording on the first day it snowed here, which happened to be Halloween of 2020; I finished on February 6. I composed all the music here, as well as performed recorded mixed and mastered it myself with the exception of my friend Armbrust, of our band Rise Coward, producing the horns on track 2 for me. Liner note paragraph is by Dawson, artist also of the Purification Ritual art.

If it were a vinyl, tracks one through five would be the A side, and six through nine the B side. The album is, by the way, supposed to be thirty-three minutes and thirty-three seconds; issues with the minutiae have had it so that the first side is 15:14, and the second 18:19. I would have prefered 15:15 and 18:18, but I can content myself with the fact that my program tends to cut a second or two off audio, so the temporal fidelity is lesser. Tracks one through three may comprise a single track in a way, as may tracks eight and nine. For the round&even number nine, and for the convenience of not presenting the listener with many endlessly long tracks, I have split them up.