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...

performance:

josh denslow: drums

anna harris: violin | voice

dennis harvey: electronics

composition/production:

josh denslow: composition

anna harris: composition

dennis harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording

performance:

michael ambro: acoustic guitar

jason harvey: bass guitar

dennis harvey: keyboards

composition/production:

michael ambro: composition

jason harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording

dennis harvey: composition | mastering | production

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 again

performance:

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).

performance:

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

performance:

jason harvey: bass guitar | voice

michael ambro: guitar

paul ambro: guitar

dennis harvey: keyboards

composition/production:

michael ambro: composition

paul ambro: composition

jason harvey: composition

dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording

performance:

jason harvey: bass guitar

omran shafique: guitar

jon beal: keyboards | voice

dennis harvey: drums

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

performance:

jason harvey: bass guitar

paul ambro: guitar

dennis harvey: keyboards

composition/production:

paul ambro: composition

jason harvey: composition | mixing | production | recording

dennis harvey: composition | mastering | production

And 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

performance:

jason harvey: bass guitar

michael ambro: guitar

paul ambro: guitar

dennis harvey: keyboards

composition/production:

michael ambro: composition

paul ambro: composition

jason harvey: composition

dennis harvey: composition | mastering | mixing | production | recording