NARCISSYPHUS by Tavo Carbone

Released Jan 21 2019

"A nightmarish collection of beautiful orchestration and playful weirdness...His unique brand of lyrical poetry will catch you off guard and is at times laugh-out-loud funny -- His voice is striking, often sounding like a downtrodden Disney character from the 1930’s. The depths he’s discovered in these recordings (especially fun in over-ear headphones) are a perfect compliment to the Trump-era hellscape -- " - Jay Purdy (Philadelphia PA)
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Neutronic : adj. (physics) Of or relating to a neutron or neutrons; consisting of neutrons. Also: specifically concerned with or employing neutrons in nuclear reactions.

People are the true flowers of life, and it has been a most precious pleasure to have temporarily strolled in your garden.
- Lord Buckley

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
- William Shakespeare

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
- Ed Koch

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
- Lucretius

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
- Robert Moses

Colonialism: The policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics , religion and health.

Tracklist

1.	Dramaturgical Promulgations	2:26

2.	Who's The Boss?	2:08

3.	Never Idle Hands	3:32

4.	Douchebag Caveat	1:44

5.	Like a Sick Eagle	2:28

6.	Narcissyphus / White Silence	4:10

7.	Drive Your Body Like a Zombie	1:57

8.	All The People	2:45

9.	Eastern Colonialism	3:52

10.	0000402598	1:38

Credits

released January 21, 2019

All Music / Words © Tavo Carbone
Engineered / Mixed / Produced - Benjamin Mayock
Co-Recorded / Arranged / Produced - Tavo Carbone
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TAVO CARBONE Voice, guitars, piano, organs, bass,
ukulele, accordion, glockenspiel,
percussion (power drill, shaker, dog leash,
housekeys on cheesegrater, samples, indigenous
tribal instruments iPhone app), slide whistle,
mellotron iPad app, keyboards, radios
ADELE MORI Cellos
ALLEN SHAWN Piano on 5
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Like a Sick Eagle © Charles Ives (first sketched in 1906, published in 1920), words by John Keats. Recordings of Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Pluto and Jupiter © NASA, Voyager recordings. Basic tracking recording/arranging by Tavo Carbone in Queens 2015 & Brooklyn NY 2016 at 202 Carroll Street (Cellos, piano on 8, electric guitars on 2/4/7/9, all clocks/keyboard/radios/wake-up call on 10 in 1998). Queens NY (bass, loops, iPad mellotrons, ukulele, guitars, percussion, keyboards, etc) 2015-16, Bennington VT Lamb Road & Jennings Mansion (Piano) 2016-7, Athens NY (Organ/Chimes/Guitar/house sounds on 2, 6). Vocals on all tracks & Electric guitar for 2 recorded by Benjamin Mayock in Hinesburg VT. Vocals & Nylon Acoustic Guitar recorded at COS in Burlington VT . Electric organ on 1 & 2, Piano end of 6 recorded at Akin Studios by Coach. Drum software, programming on 2, 3 - Coach. Wake-up call at end of 10 - KC. 0000402598 is the serial number of Tavo's high school alarm clock. Artwork © Tavo Carbone 2018. Collage source material : © LIFE magazine & © The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1978, "America's Fascinating Indian Heritage" series. Photograph of Eagle reading newspaper © TW Collins @ TW Collins Photography. This recording was initially tracked at locations in NY and VT that embodied a fleeting sense of home. Recorded on 4-track machine and various software-s, beginning in February of 2015.

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