Nyheter

This is a truncated version of 'Our Biological Loop,' a composition originally commissioned for Radiolab and released on 'The Plastic Family.' The entire piece recapitulates in this track and 'Esmerelda's Lament.'

I hopped off the plane at LAX with a dream and my cardigan
Welcome to the land of fame, excess, whoa am I gotta fit in?
Jumped in the cab, here I am for the first time
Look to my right, and I see the Hollywood sign

This is all so crazy, everybody seems so famous
My tummy's turnin' and I'm feelin' kinda homesick
Too much pressure and I'm nervous
That's when the taxi man turned on the radio

And the Jay-Z song was on
And the Jay-Z song was on
And the Jay-Z song was on

So I put my hands up, they're playin' my song
The butterflies fly away
I'm noddin' my head like "Yeah!"
Mov...

At midnight in the museum hall
The fossils gathered for a ball
There were no drums or saxophones,
But just the clatter of their bones,
A rolling, rattling, carefree circus
Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.
Pterodactyls and brontosauruses
Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.
Amid the mastodontic wassail
I caught the eye of one small fossil.
"Cheer up, sad world," he said, and winked—
"It's kind of fun to be extinct."

Concept/Composition by Nathaniel Sabat

Remixed by James Buckland.

Trombone- Rex Bennet
Violin- Cindy Lan
Guitar- Julia Egan
Cello- Kirk Pearson
Trumpet- David MIller
Bass- Nathaniel Sabat

Concept by Julian Korzeniowsky.

Mbira- Julian Korzeniowsky
Violin/Viola- Cindy Lan
Cello- David Miller
Double Bass- Nathaniel Sabat
Electronics/Keyboards/Percussion/Balalaika/Production- Kirk Pearson

This is a quick cover of 'How Do You Do?' from the rather controversial 1949 Disney film 'Song of the South.' The song, used to narrate the antics of Joel Chandler Harris's Brer Rabbit, is prominently featured in our personal favorite theme park attraction, Splash Mountain.

You could be a sunrise.
You could be a sunset.
You could be a moonrise.
You could be a bunk bed.
You could be 3 AM,
or you could be a train car.
You could be a cloudless night
or you could be a rock star.

You could be anything you want, anything you wanted to be.
You could be a million things but you couldn't be with me.

You could be a brushstroke.
You could be a fire escape.
You could be a box full of letters,
or you could be a mixtape.
You could be a frosty window.
You could be a street light.
You could be a month of songs,
or you could be a spotlight.

You could be...

Interplanetary,
big vocabulary,
telescopic vision,
infrared precision,
singularities and
the voice of Liam Neeson,
colored pictures of the mostly grayscale moon dust.

Find your weight in space and
watch the Russians race and
see the vacuum chamber that could melt your forehead.
Hear the rockets roar and
see Apollo soar and
you will know you're in the Cullman Hall of the Universe.

Black holes, dead roles,
artificial interpoles,
ecosphere and biosphere and
cryosphere around.
Pluto planet's intermission,
constant streaming Astrovision
architectural decision,
Neil Tyson...