(Released 2001)

This shorter instrumental offering (six songs) is the last in Meadornack’s works centered explicitly around compositional techniques. Centered around guitar and bass lines written entirely according to dice rolls, which set a road map for the songs along the perimeters of phrase length, pitch and note length, the songs make what could easily be considered the most rigorous and rigid music of the group’s entire catalog. These songs were conceived one summer by Walt and Johnnie Kalamitysax during one of their stints as housemates in the attic of an old mansion in Boston that had no locking doors and several missing windows (a raccoon was found eating bread off of their counter at one point during the writing of this album). Atonal notes pluck and ring against each other in offkilter patterns and uncaring harmonic pairings in patterns that patiently await the lister’s familiarity. A bed of percussion and fried keyboard parts were added after the fact by Peck Leathers after the group had moved to the space on Green Street in Jamaica Plain. The key, though, is that he was given no clue or even cursory explanations of how the songs were structured before the record button was pressed – his internal meter thus clashing with the orderly patterns already in place in a blind, exciting adventure.

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TRACK LISTING:
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. Yankee Doodle Dandy