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telephone songs (demos)

by martianelmtree

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1.
storm down pine point way 01:02
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storm down pine point way old orchard maine getting pulled under marsden hartley's waves head up in a sky so dark i can't see a thing and clouds so blunt they're just knocking me under again
2.
no bottom 03:19
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(Joe Shores: no bottom, no bottom) I’ve been singing my sounding calls (Joe Shores: mark four, quarter less four) Can’t judge no depth ‘tween old brick walls (Joe Shores: quarter less five) Wrapped myself in the sound of a slender silence (Joe Shores: half twain, quarter twain) And I’ve felt a love that is close to terror no bottom, no bottom, no bottom, no bottom (Joe Shores: quarter twain, mark twain) Will we write different books inside the city? (Joe Shores: nine and a half feet, nine feet) Did we write different books outside the city? (Joe Shores: eight and a half feet) I can’t judge no depth at all no bottom, no bottom, no bottom, no bottom
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dancing on the grapes 02:56
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with 'night of the purple moon' lurching through my brain i just want to put on a spacesuit and walk the centerline of a busy street where everybody stops and gets out of their car looking up into the sky at dreams floating away just above the things that we can say just above the things that we can say these blips and beeps are cycling in my brain circled wagons, forever vigilant against attackers that aren't coming spinning fast or slow, it's all the same just a difference in the rate at which we slip away away from our dreams, away from the wistful things away from the innocence and joy that let us fly up among the dreams mumbling the things we could barely say mashing the words with a glossolalic fervor mashing the words like we're dancing on the grapes mashing the words with a glossolalic fervor mashing the words like we're dancing on the grapes mashing the words with a glossolalic fervor
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crack in the sidewalk 03:07
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feeling this fear feeling this finality is such an illusion that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys just stick around and when we dream and when we struggle with our dreams we're just setting ourselves up to fight the good fight one more time so bash me if you will dance with me to the death the death of all confusions that try to tell me that I'm going to fail that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys open up your mind and let the world split open open up your mind and watch the orb become two separate spheres possibility possibilities that crack in the sidewalk gonna swallow you up someday you better dive in that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys that crack in the sidewalk will be a canyon someday, boys you better dive in better dive in
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two rooms 01:59
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i live alone in two rooms way up north where the walls creep in tighter in peripheral view but they snap back into place when I stare at them directly and they're not going to crush me until I fall asleep so I won't the dogs are barking no one's there won't quit barking no one's there the dogs are barking no one's there won't quit barking no one's there thinking about what was and projecting what will be can drive a man mad so I'll turn of my mind with a sputter of static and a throb of resignation then it's all dark and quiet yes, peace finally peace I live alone two rooms way up north I live alone two rooms way up north I live alone in two rooms way up north I live alone in two rooms way up north two rooms
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whiter than the sun 02:23
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what you doing 'round here? what you doing 'round here? i'm just kicking glass down the sidewalk i'm just grinding glass in the street there's so many people 'round here there's so many people 'round here bringing different things to the table let's grind glass until it glimmers whiter than the sun what you doing 'round here? what you doing 'round here? there's so many people 'round here what you bringing to the table? what you bringing to the table 'round here?
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miracle baby 06:07
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Do you remember the Miracle Baby of Buffalo Creek? We read it in the paper, late winter 1972 When the coal-stained water zigzagged down the holler (Chorus) And the newspaper said Miracle Baby, getting stronger every day The newspaper said Miracle Baby, getting stronger every day You know he’s better every day Your mother and brother could not save themselves But they threw you higher up the valley wall Where gob from that sludge pond found you lying on the hillside And wrapped you up in a thick black muck Chorus Then searchers found you and cleared the mud from your mouth And you sucked in your breath and you cried and you cried So angry! And who could blame you? Born again before you sinned Once from your mother’s womb and again from that watery tomb Chorus You helped to clear the gloom A pinpoint of starlight from that coal-stained holler Imagine folks scrambling up that mountain, ahead of that water 125 gone, 400 without homes And you alone to give us hope Chorus Well the people, they never got houses And the coal company just walked away And the folks can’t sleep in a dark so deep In a holler Lit only by The pinpoint of light that is you Chorus
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neoprene, nylon, and wallace carothers 05:25
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dreams out of the ivory gate and visions before midnight i wonder if they’ll ever come true? i told you once about my work balanced in a swivel chair, clinging to a table this lasts for eight hours a day a modest self-assessment for rendering matter in a brand new way speaking a new language in chemistry (break) neoprene, nylon and wallace carothers a breakthrough, a jackpot and a little-known chemist pulling thread like taffy from a molten polymer this festoon of fiber gracing women’s legs dupont really pulled a rabbit out of its hat whispering swinburne to fall asleep she waits for each and other, she waits for all men born he’s down, he’s down, he’s down, he’s down lemon juice and cyanide take proserpine’s form (break) neoprene, nylon and wallace carothers a breakthrough, a jackpot and a little-known chemist gracing the legs of so many women dupont really pulled a rabbit out of its hat i thought I told you once about my work and these visions before midnight (breakdown)

about

Telephone Songs was an attempt to deal with drastic change and the loneliness of being in a new place. I moved to Philadelphia in October 2016, after 20 years in Athens, GA. By early 2017, in late winter, February and March, I was missing my community so badly that I reached out to a few friends and suggested we participate in a remote activity called Telephone Songs. Each week, until we all got bored, burnt out, or too busy, we would write a song, record it directly into a phone, playing only whatever could be achieved in a single take with no overdubs, then share it with the group.
It was a lot of fun, and it helped my adjustment tremendously. I really like the songs and have thought about going back and revisiting them in a more formal, multi-tracked way, but the energy of these in-the-moment, fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants versions is near and dear to me.
I like my music rough and meaningful. To me, this achieves those qualities.

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released December 10, 2020

martianelmtree is normally minimal, improvisational solo recordings by Marc Tissenbaum (clangtint).
This album happens to be songs written very quickly and recorded via telephone in first takes. It features guitar, vocals, casio sk1, acetone drum machine, and one sample.
Lyrics are visible for each individual track.

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Born in a bedroom in Athens, Georgia in 2009. Joe Rowe & Marc Tissenbaum started out on a five-gallon plastic bucket and acoustic guitar, moved to full kit and electric squall, and have settled into something that might encompass anything they've heard. Industrial/nature sounds, African field recordings, free jazz, pure improv. rock. One recording may sound nothing like the next. Keep moving. ... more

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