Just Because

Chris Haskett

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So when I finally finished the "Partly Uncovered" album I realized that three of the tracks really just didn't fit with what was already a pretty eclectic record. They also didn't have ANYTHING to do with each other, Read more

So when I finally finished the "Partly Uncovered" album I realized that three of the tracks really just didn't fit with what was already a pretty eclectic record. They also didn't have ANYTHING to do with each other, which, perversely, gave them something in common. So I lumped them onto an EP by themselves. Why? Just because!

"ULZJ" is "unattributable Led Zeppelin jam" which is a rendering of a jam I found on a bootleg of jams from the Headley Grange sessions. I don't know which of them is/are the composer(s). My best guess is that John Paul Jones wanted to jam on a bit of P-Funk's "Cosmic Slop". Anyhow, I meshed it with a bridge/middle section I had knocking around and voila!

Dance of the Yama is, quite obviously, an hommage to John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Again, I had the riff knocking around and it wouldn't let me go. So here it is.

Finally, in the fever dreams of my psyche, it occurred to me that the Dead's "Bird Song" would have worked as a track on Miles' "Kind of Blue." (I've also had visions of various Van Halen tracks being played by the Basie or Ellington bands, but that's another matter for a different record...).

Anyway, so here's "Bird Song" loosely interpreted for 52nd At in 1959...

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    ULZJ/The Mower medley 3:51
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    Dance of the Yama 4:55
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    Bird Song 7:23
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Partly Uncovered

Chris Haskett

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Deconstructed-and-then-reconstructed instrumental guitar takes on various pieces of music I love. Drawing on diverse sources that include Sun Ra, Ronnie Montrose, The Average White Band, Sonny Sharrock, the Grateful Dead, Vernon Reid and Sonny Rollins, I tried to put the music into new space and tweak its geometry.

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    Pick Up the Pieces 6:00
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    Seize the Rainbow 6:19
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    You Say He's Just a Psychic Friend 4:53
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    East Broadway Rundown 3:17
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    4 Blood Alley 152 5:01
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    Where Pathways Meet 4:42
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    Straight Up 3:13
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    Wharf Rat 8:33
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Comprovisations in Linear B

Chris Haskett

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These are sessions from 2002. For a long time I wasn't sure how to finish them. When I finally went back and dove into it, all my original intentions had become like a lost language and I had to approach the record Read more
These are sessions from 2002. For a long time I wasn't sure how to finish them. When I finally went back and dove into it, all my original intentions had become like a lost language and I had to approach the record afresh. Much was left intact and simply enhanced and some was rethought and rebuilt.

It's very much a document of a particular moment in my brain. And even though I don't even approach his depth, Sonny Sharrock's "Seize the Rainbow" was a guiding inspiration for the whole Letter 27 project.

I'm glad to see this finally get out into the light.
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    Hole Tone Pyjamas 5:08
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    Elastic Geometry 5:08
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    Tilting Lilt 5:14
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    Soteriological Forecast 4:59
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    Out to Lunch with Iron Man 5:28
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    Nope Soap 4:19
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    Carrots for Melvin 5:14
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    Trying Every Door 4:59
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    Kilometers, Rods and Cubits 9:17
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The Courage Born of Conflicting Terrors

Chris Haskett, Mirna Sodre, Nick Enfield

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9 tracks of instrumental guitarfunkrockadelic with found vocals. People who dig it come from all sorts of directions, Rollins Band fans, Deadheads, guitar nerds, Zappa freaks...all sorts.
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    Intro:Start As You Mean to Continue 1:07
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    Improprioceptor 5:52
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    GO! 5:28
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    Ambiguous Types of 7 6:17
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    Skywhale 5:50
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    Jeff's New Ride 5:32
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    Learn By Doing: Trephine 5:38
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    Learn By Doing: Tightrope 4:25
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Not Part Of The Solution

Chris Haskett

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    Impact 5:03
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    Roy Kill Was Here 3:51
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    Four Things 3:33
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    Beckett 3:51
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    Like Waking 3:52
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    RBI 3:28
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    Espere La Luz 4:41
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    A16 4:54
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    Today 4:35
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    What You Gotta Say? 4:33
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    slomotionconvulsion 3:55
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    Acid Breath 5:28
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    Shut Up and Thank Frank 6:47
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    Straight Up 3:33
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    Miss Nut and Friend 3:44
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Nonfiction

Chris Haskett & Brandon Finley

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    L-Shape 4:30
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    Lizard Errands 3:08
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    Sly Larry's Wanna B-Side 3:58
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    Tribute 4:38
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    Lucy In The Sky With Dogfood 3:28
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    Doubt of the Benefit 2:23
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    Drill 4:13
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    Wheelchair Waltz 2:49
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    Viva Voce 4:21
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    Twin 1:39
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    Zadit? 3:29
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    Neighbors Say He Was A Quiet Man... 3:13
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    Truth Is Stranger 3:41
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    Respistory 1:57
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    Maybe Elephants Walk 3:45
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    Playing In Papa's Clothes 4:46
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    Four Legs In The Morning 2:16
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    Two Legs At Noon 3:03
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    Three Legs In The Evening 3:23
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Gravity: Left/Right

Chris Haskett

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Angular instrumental guitar music in a wide orbit around planet Blues...
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    Butterflying 3:00
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    3-2-1 4:14
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    Christmas All Year 3:07
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    Cat Noon 3:47
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    Connie Rivers 3:07
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    Van Vliet 4:47
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    Not a Real Oasis But a Perfectly Good Mirage 3:48
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    Rowlover 3:26
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    Where Men Don't Tell What They've Seen 3:48
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    Magsweep 5:11
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    Three Wrongs Making a Right 3:21
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    13/8 1:52
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    Welcome to the World Sid (Don't Forget to Duck) 2:49
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    Catgerine 2:35
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    Op Shop Isis 4:57
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    Oxford Delhi 4:49
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    Sea Waltz 3:14
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    Not Wily: Carla 4:16
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