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This
CD, introducing the World Owes You A Living suite, opens
with a clear digital statement, an archaic radio announcer's voice:
"...robots and electronic devices... are taking the
place of people!" From that flagrant absurdity
you are taken on a scenic and picaresque rail-journey. A productive
tension unites the "fast" nature of clips (10, 20, 30
sec) and the slowing via series impact to powerful experiences
of meaning. Hundreds of voices deliver a vitality invisible in
forms of text, and though the ideas generated by segue and juxtaposition
here are not new, the route and point of entry is both recent
in the resurgence of its vigor (oral modes) and a harkening back
(and forward) past the separators to the communion of oral societies.
The shock of recognition, "of courseness" hits when
you realize that these are truths you recognize, but never hear
spoken or portrayed on mainstream commercial media.
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