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Parts --- 2022-12-02

hand numbered, stamped and assembled by Che and Patrick. some copies set aside from our east coast tour. edition of 100 Patrick and I first played together in the fall of 2020, when he was visiting New York from LA. It was under a bridge in Greenpoint, with me on double bass and him on alto. We both brought our zoom recorders but neglected to turn them on, which has been a source of mild consternation ever since. A year later he was back and we set up some mics in 75 Dollar Bill's basement practice space in Ridgewood, and remembered to hit record this time. We added some other horns, percussion and a 1/4" reel to reel machine with a loop in it to our battery of instruments and spent the afternoon recording. The files sat on my hard drive for another year, but when our friend Tashi Dorji invited us to Asheville for his edition of the Catalytic Sound Festival, we couldn't resist setting up a short tour down and back, and making this tape for the occasion. While that day under the bridge was definitively (A)LIVE--it was the first time I'd made music with another human being in person in the six or seven months since the pandemic started--the music on this tape is, like its cover, a collage, a sort of compacted multiverse of ourselves and our doubles, layered, spliced and dubbed over one another. We're on tour now, and it's more like it was under the bridge again, chasing the present every night, and feeling lucky to be able to do so. -CC, Durham, North Carolina Recorded by Che Chen, October 2021 Overdubs recorded by Patrick Shiroishi, October 2021 Editing, mixing, cover art and design by Che Chen