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	1.	A1. mesopause A2. the charm of crisis A3. a becoming 19:44		buy track
	2.	B1. sun-bleached mandible B2. the unconscious is a machine for operating an animal 17:21		buy track

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"this tape contains unretouched living room audio of a January afternoon captured by three microphones"

A1. mesopause
A2. the charm of crisis
A3. a becoming

B1. sun-bleached mandible
B2. the unconscious is a machine for operating an animal

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released April 15, 2022

Dave Abramson: drums, incidental percussion
Alan F. Jones: pedal steel guitar, guitar, test equipment

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Album title borrowed from Cormac McCarthy's first published essay of scientific non-fiction, as a member of the Santa Fe Institute, "The Kekulé Problem." (April 2017)

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