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zaireeka

by reMaster of Reality

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okay i'll admit that i really don't understand 02:33
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riding to work in the year 2025 (you're invisible now) 06:43
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thirty five thousand feet of despair 04:50
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a machine in india 10:12
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the train runs over the camel but is derailed by the gnat 06:00
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how will we know 02:05
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march of the rotten vegetables 06:08
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the big ol' bug is the new baby now 05:03
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how will we know (alt mix) 02:13
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my master of the flaming lips' "Zaireeka"
the best way to hear it is in it's original 4cd format but if you're like me and don't recreationally listen to music with 4 cd players then this is fairly acceptable i hope!
here's a few words from Wayne about it from 1999:

"The technical work load of Zaireeka was exhausting…having no real blueprint as to how we could make such a complicated recording left us having to, unwittingly, devise a new system of tracking and playback…kind of like having to make your own shovel before you can dig the hole. However, what once seemed impossible after a while became ordinary, and in the course of us “getting our heads around” such huge compositions we started accepting a wider range of sounds for more accurate expression. More precise and more complicated. We had no choice.

Early on we discovered one big pile of unsynchronized music sounds much like another and we didn’t want this. We wanted a variety of moods….We wanted to experiment with unexpected sounds but not sacrifice a song’s emotional impact. We were finding that we had to exaggerate all aspects of the things we liked about our songs. So in the past, we would simply record as many tracks as possible, hope for happy accidents and try to make sense of it at the end of the mix. Now, with the capability of having (if we wanted) hundreds of tracks, the luxury of following a “happy accident” to a more unique sound quickly became a frustrating routine of endless possibilities. The song itself would have to be the guide for the sound. But songs are not ideas – if you have ideas you should be able to hear them in your song. Songs are to a man what crying is to a baby – they communicate the unspeakable with sound. But I do not believe, like some, that the song and the sound can be separated. There is an old saying, “It’s the singer, not the song.” But I would change that to “It’s the sound, not the song.” Songs are vehicles for ideas of sound. And if you think about it, the song itself really is just sound. So anyway, as recording went on, inevitably, some songs were failures. Despite sometimes weeks of doing everything we could, they still would not work in the extended 4-CD form that Zaireeka commanded. These were the songs that began to make up The Soft Bulletin as far back as March of ’97."

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released March 9, 2023

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