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performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | voice
michael ambro: guitar
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | noises
composition/production:michael ambro: composition
paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
notes:... If someone finds this, whoever you are, however small, human, non-human, single-celled, sentient, whether you have an epidermis, whether you're able to penetrate the barrier into the infinite transdimensional space-time continuum, I hope you've heard my story, and can find a way to help me... help me...
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performance:composition/production:josh denslow: composition
anna harris: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording
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performance:composition/production:michael ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | production
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Have you got a light
I've seen this door a hundred times
Touched this railing like a hundred hands
Seen these faces rage and fade
And crumble into lonely age
I know what it's like to be a liar
When everyone around you is a fire
I think you know it too, don't you
Let's have a drink or two
We're not rebels, we're not heroes
We're just here, we're just queer
The fuzz can smell our fear
The cameras are rolling when they pull us apart
We didn't know this was how it would start
Break down, silent sister
Look out the bars for the one you lost
All we have are shadows and shame
What's your name
Will you stay
Before they take us away
We saw them throw stones
We buffered our bones
The whip cracked
The jail cell full of queens of all sizes and colors
You weren't there
They dragged you by your hair
This beautiful boy
Taken away in rags
Taken away in bags
The cops went home to their wives and their steak knives
And we screamed for years
We felt the sting privilege had pried from us
We were the faraway boot-crushed boys
We want it us over them
We take the bullets and grin
We saw our faces in films and photographs
We were the martyrs for progress
What was your name againperformance:dennis harvey: all instruments | voice
composition/production:dennis harvey: composition | lyrics | mastering | mixing | production | recording
notes:Samples from "United in Anger: A History of ACT UP" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrAzU79PBVM), Sylvia Rivera's "Y'all better quiet down" monologue (https://videoactivism.net/en/yall-better-quiet/), footage from the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_9OJnRnZjU), Advise and Consent (clip from The Celluloid Closet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL_vrb4-6_0), Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4).
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file_downloadperformance:don weeda: accordion
ryan mccormack: alto saxophone | turkish g clarinet
samantha lundeen: cello
andy eschbacher: cümbü?
robin dougherty: daf
sina najmei: daf | tanbur
assem nasr: daf | voice
ali fuat sengul: daf | voice
lauren checchio: darbuka | riq | zils
setereh nematollahi: tar
sonia seeman: turkish g clarinet
elena bessire: viola
mary kay hendrix: violin
yoshimi masao: violin
composition/production:dennis harvey: mastering | mixing | production | recording
extra composition/production:chris weaver: mixing | production | recording
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performance:composition/production:michael ambro: composition
paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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performance:composition/production:jon beal: composition | lyrics | mixing | production | recording
jason harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording
omran shafique: composition | mixing | production | recording
dennis harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording
extra composition/production:harry o'hanian: production
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performance:composition/production:paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | production
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file_downloadAnd so Frodo Baggins found himself within the gaping maw of Mount Doom with nothing but a thin slab of computer-generated rock keeping him from violent, flammable death. And Frodo held up the One Ring of Power above the fires that created the One Ring of Power, and spake these words:
Frodo: "Oh lord, bless this thine One Ring of Power, which is more powerful than all the other powerful Rings. I shall dearly miss this Ring, even as it has in the darkness bound me. It is a very naughty Ring, but it is also very, very pretty. I would like to thank my faithful Sam, dear old Uncle Bilbo, Old Gandy, the Academy, and all the little people under 4'3" -- Oh, I see Gollum is approaching with quite an ill-favored look in his -- Oh no, he has taken the Ring from me -- Oh, he seems to be dancing a happy jig on the edge of a green-screen precipice -- Oh no, he seems to --"
And the ring was destroyed.performance:jason harvey: bass guitar | voice
michael ambro: guitar | voice
paul ambro: guitar
dennis harvey: keyboards | voice
composition/production:michael ambro: composition | lyrics
paul ambro: composition | lyrics
jason harvey: composition | lyrics | recording
dennis harvey: composition | lyrics | mastering | mixing | production | recording
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performance:composition/production:michael ambro: composition
paul ambro: composition
jason harvey: composition
dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording