FREAKY 57, by K A G

FREAKY 57

by K A G

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1.	My Notes on the Last Picture Show 03:17	lyrics	buy track

2.	Fordist Workers Dream 02:34	lyrics	buy track

3.	Moon, the Female Principle 03:18	lyrics	buy track

4.	The Recipe For Success 02:34	lyrics	buy track

5.	Su Tissue / Ona ip 5 03:30	lyrics	buy track

6.	Joni 02:23	lyrics	buy track

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Just some weird recordings I've been sitting on. Written and recorded summer 2018 by KAG. Inspired by The Dictionary of Symbols, the USA, Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson, the Moon, Su Tissue, Vanity Records,

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released August 2, 2018

all songs by KAG
-sampled volca programming by Carson Cox
-additional vocals on 'The Recipe For Success' from Los Angeles cab driver who "used to work in radio," April 2018

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K A G Washington, D.C.

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Danger Ahead

Aug 2018
FREAKY 57

Aug 2018
FLY BY THE DIXIE CHICKS

Jun 2018
EP A

Oct 2016
FUGUE 7

Apr 2015

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Track Name: My Notes on the Last Picture Show: "All I want to do is stay with the man I love," Cybil shouts with her legs up in the back of a truck. Then she runs off with Lester she loves a headfuck. "You didn't even have the decency to wash his face," says Sam. "Don't come around here no more, no more." The woman and the boy who climbed into bed look terrified; they're just dying in a town out west. "People are always young and miserable and married," the cowboy says. The one Cybil wants wouldn't fuck her because she's a virgin. At the diner Jeff talks Mexico, they're close to the border of Texas, and it occurs to me this place is hell to Michigan's heaven, I mean they're opposite. They listen to Hank Williams instead of Marvin Gaye. Jeff and Sonny watch the cowboys in the last picture show, the drawn out charismatic parody of what a country thought it used to be. You played yourself or someone on TV.
Track Name: Fordist Workers Dream: oh, what a face you make
when you've got civilization on your side

at a crosswalk
Fordist workers dreamed
of a worldly paradise

monotonous, wanting
to own their own homes
wresting control from state bureaucracy

Fordist workers dreamed
of a worldly paradise

neoliberal bourgeoisie
caricatured the Lefties
as the finger wagging lobby

preventing
Fordist workers dream
of a worldly paradise

keep me safe tonight
Track Name: Moon, the Female Principle: "Moon, the planet: lunar symbolism is to be seen as correlative with that of the sun. It's two most basic characteristics spring, on the one hand, from the fact that the moon as no light of it's own and simply reflects the light of the sun. And on the other that as it goes through its regular phases the moon changes shape. This is why it symbolizes dependence and, invariably, the female principle. As well as periodical change and renewal, on both counts the moon is the symbol of change and of growth. The moon is a symbol of life rhythms."
- The Dictionary of Symbols

[low in background] WATER / RAIN / PLANT LIFE / FERTILITY
Track Name: The Recipe For Success: "now EDM's fading that was the big clarion cutting edge thing 10 years ago as you noticed at Coachella that used to be heavily dominated by EDM you know Cascade, Tiesto, all those guys would go out there and I bet there wasn't an EDM tent there this year or oh there was one okay well it would be indie bands it would be classic rock headliner it would be up and coming indie alt rock and then tons of EMD DJs and now it's all hip-hop and R&B and Eminem's here and oh, Beyonce, you know what Coachella used to be it was all about the cutting edge alternative lifestyle indie rock grunge you know and it's just not even that it's just a big money grab which is what happens to everything in art you start with the pure form of art and then it mutates and gets to the masses and you know it's just a commodity and once the artist dies is when they become really famous and everyone just makes money off their corpse like Kurt Cobain the best formula for success is to be dead it's just an upside down world now and everybody's struggling with it here hip-hop's the number one format now but I can see how that's mutating and these up and coming guys think they're going to be the next Drake by the time they get their turn in line that's gonna be done you don't even know what's going to be next you know things are changing so quickly they thought EDM was the future and now EDM's going to be fading you know it's going to be like emo core hip-hop or something and everything's so fragmented now social media's fragmented everything you don't have a community anymore you don't have real living breathing fans who will go to every single show and buy all your albums and the t-shirt and now it's like hits, social media and on to the next flavor of the month so I just got off that train I'm too old for that I just ran out of options I wish I could've stayed the 80s and 90s were awesome the 2000s even were pretty cool but it's just an empty shell of what it used to be" - Los Angeles cab driver who used to work in radio, April 2018
Track Name: Su Tissue / Ona ip 5: lots of things you can tell about a person just by looking
not a glance but you know, really looking
like looking at you I could tell
Ah, I lost it but I could tell
you're more distant from humanity
than you want to be
it doesn't accomplish what you want it to
but what that is, I can't tell you
Track Name: Joni: Joni! I'm not laughing
you say it's okay I'm not laughing
keep your eyes open all the time

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