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Shades of Blue and Green

by Salute to the Salmon

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I went twice to Calvary all the while in a daze I bought salep at a stand all the while I was amazed I am not a good performer try my best to be a man blueish dreams envelop me sometimes I feel I cannot stand lay down your violence lay in the sand like the Christmas Truce in No Man's Land I went twice to Calvary all the while praising God pilgrims looked at me with confusion I would smile and I'd nod I didn't touch the Wailing Wall I was afraid I'd start a fight Ben Ami didn't mind my beard everything turned out all right
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Wolf Moon 05:08
moon obscured by clouds silently exerting her influence over me offerings of tobacco to Grandmother Momoy love me glowing like a shelter shivering like escape frightened of the Tarot looking for a way wait for holidays keep your eyes open for crow sightings where are we? get to bed early or stay up doing nothing at all oh dear boredom stumbling loudly ecstasy's embrace fuzzy like a mystic why am I awake? wind down for the evening fall asleep to blue-green Medieval chants love me oh what have become of all the people you have ever known? oh what have become of the people you have known?
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Cinnamon Man 04:32
words by Erin Tanner there he is, here he be, cinnamon man with basket of cinnamon stick branches from trees a sack lets dust upon toast we let fall butterside up. He who dances with fate He who controls the spice He who shall replenish the spice and us everyday misplacing the jar shouting out a curse "Cinnamon man please come back!" Spice mortal fresh ground life force conscious granule of the universe o how it goes
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ants ascend legs pausing briefly at stomach laying their eggs taking stock of surroundings and minuscule miracles fall like hot cocoa and the soldiers are trapped in the chocolate rain porous but dry the sponge dreams of the sea and he pauses to sigh as infections occur and stunning soliloquies fizzle like antacids regurgitated for later digestion and sometimes I feel that I’m stuck on the perimeter always outside of your kitchen sublime and sometimes I feel that I’m right in the thick of it I mustn’t forget to write down all of my dream s harried but hallowed the bundles of daydreams are fuel for the flames of realization’s release and musical monotone summons a symphony which is reduced to a tune like a breeze and sometimes I feel that I’m trapped on the edges locked out of rooms of our mutual design and sometimes I feel that I’m right in the midst of it I’ll always remember to make up new words
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about

All songs recorded in Seattle, WA, in the early months of 2015, except for Love You Back (recorded in Olympia, WA, some time in 2014) and Istanbul Thunderstorm (recorded in Istanbul, Turkey on 17 June, 2015).

Goodnight Sweet Jane recorded live from Jane Kroger's bedroom.

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released September 23, 2015

cover art by Erin Tanner

mastered by Nathan Gibson

Yex - electric ukulele, melodica on Twice to Calvary and Ode to Mitosis, guitar on Twice to Calvary, Hawaiian tremoloa on Permiter Musings, cümbüş cura (cümbüş saz) on Istanbul Thunderstorm, electronic tambura, vox

Haley-Ryan - melodica


All songs by Jonathan David Kroger, except:

Cinnamon Man - lyrics by Erin Tanner (from "In an Imaginary Holiday World"), music by Jonathan David Kroger

You Can't Erase a Mirror - lyrics by Jerry McMillen, music by Bob Holland and Jerry McMillen, first performed by Children of the Mushroom

Ode to Mitosis - (taken from "A Very Cellular Song") words and music by Mike Heron, first performed by The Incredible String Band

Goodnight Sweet Jane - music (theme music from "East of Eden") by Leonard Rosenman, lyrics (as "Goodnight Sweet Jonathan") by Melissa Kroger, adapted by Jonathan David Kroger

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Music by Yex and Haley-Ryan, made for the genii locorum of the Cascadia.

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