Case Unwired from Welded Lanterns by Cincture

# About this track: Case Unwired

The final thread unravels when you're not looking for it. "Case Unwired" emerged during a power outage that lasted three nights in the eastern district—we set up candles around the automat and just played through the darkness. First time in months the Witness didn't grip his saxophone like it might escape.

Something happens in this piece that we've never captured before: space. Real space. The kind that stretches between streetlamps in Lammock's quieter corners. The organ breathes in slow waves, notes hanging like fog while guitar and sax exchange fragments of what might be reconciliation. We stripped the percussion down to nothing but whispered cymbal work—just enough to mark time without forcing it forward.

The bridge section happened by accident. The Minder stepped outside for air, and we each filled the vacuum with these tentative solo phrases. Nobody planned it. Nobody spoke. Just these isolated voices calling across empty space, then somehow finding each other again.

Deep beneath the apparent stillness runs a current of possibility—not resolution exactly, but perhaps the first acknowledgment that resolution could exist. The Ledgerist calls this our "wound-cleaning track." Not healing yet, just the quiet moment when you finally look at what's been festering.

When we finished the final take, nobody moved for several minutes. The Cipher finally broke silence: "Sounds like what happens after you stop running."

Midnight streets where brass and smoke collide. Live-captured melancholy from forgotten corners – every note hanging like unfinished confessions between rain-slick pavements. We play what silence leaves behind.