The Institute For The Diffusion Of Unwanted Knowledge

by The Parasite

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1.	Don't Call Out For Carlos 02:36	buy track
2.	The Last Chance Saloon 04:08	buy track
3.	The Slug Trail (Remake) 05:09	buy track
4.	A Petrified Florist 04:15	buy track
5.	Travelling Upstream 04:48	buy track
6.	Rummage 03:55	buy track
7.	Man Sized Dress 03:43	buy track
8.	Staying Small 02:57	buy track
9.	Unless 02:49	buy track
10.	The Big Stink 05:09	buy track

about

A lot had happened in the few months since we had last worked together , I'd suffered another severe jolt in terms of health and the country had seemingly woken up to the fact that our elected leaders were a bunch of incompetent bluffers and carpetbaggers , as war is waged on European soil and the rising cost of living pushes more and more people into a poverty trap the blinkers of complacency were being torn off , it was time for a response from the Parasite , ten tracks arrived in my inbox , ten tracks that needed words and a voice , I'd been scribbling down the half remembered dreams and abstract thoughts I woke with , a bunch of these rabid things would be used , the track " slug trail" from our last album had more juice that could be squeezed from it and would be revisited, a bold strategy was decided upon , the vocalist would not hear the tracks he was to sing to in advance , he would trust that his partner was in tune with him , trust his partners taste , his choices , his musical vocabulary, in little more than an hour each track was vocalised , the singer riding rhythms as they hit him , responding to the musical prompts instinctively, it was a musical high wire act with no safety net , it could prove to be a misstep , an irredeemable failure , its the chance one must take in pursuing true spontaneity and inspiration , Miles Davis took chances , Brian Enos oblique strategies were all about risking failure and embracing failures , viewing them rather as accidental successes, for better or for worse the Parasite would roll the dice and follow its dictates , this pair of dicemen would take a chance man

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released August 5, 2022

IKM - Voice and Words
RAO - Ableton Live

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The Parasite Salford, UK

The Parasite is Ian Fourcandles and Bob Osborne.

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May 18

The Macbeth

London, UK
Jul 5

Black Monk Tavern

Corpus Christi, TX

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