released December 11, 2018

recorded, written, performed and mixed by Marek Alozie at home in Silver Spring, MD, Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, IN and the Levine School of Music (NW) in Washington, DC

hi-res MP3 version mastered by Sophie Chen in Montreal, QC

cover art is a detail of "Starry Crown" by John Biggers

additional notes + praise included with download

this record is dedicated to Vincent, Lauren, Mason and Logan. to all other family, friends, colleagues and supporters near and far - you know very well who you are. thanks for everything.

additional thanks to:

“Electric Ladyland”, Eno, “Entertainment Erases History”, Lewis Hamilton, Christophe Chassol, “Le Mans”, Tia Norfleet, Novos Baianos, “Two-Lane Blacktop”, Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Muhammad Ali, Jorge Ben, Mica Levi, Robert Fripp, Tim Buckley, Mark Hollis, Animal Collective, the Paul Institute, Wire, Awful Records, Stewart Copeland, Nobuharu Matsushita, the Lego Group, Emerson Fittipaldi, Jon Bap, Sango, ESG, Kashif, Max Tundra, Edu Lobo, Monte Booker, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, John Biggers, Disco Inferno, Varnette P. Honeywood, Eli Keszler, Clube da Esquina, XTC, Carlos Alomar, Woody Strode, The Easy Cure, George Carruthers, James Blood Ulmer, Matana Roberts, Tod Dockstader, JPEGMAFIA, Jocy de Oliveira, Chrome, Paul White, Albert Marcoeur, OPN, Charles Burnett, Cobb + Grier’s “Black Rage”, Christian Marclay, “Cooley High”, Boredoms, Aaron McGruder, Holger Czukay, Ezra Jack Keats, “Random Acts of Flyness”, “One Way Boogie-Woogie”, the Harlem Globetrotters, “Downtown ’81”, Bo Diddley + Lady Bo, Paris Strother, Leon Ware, “The Rest Is Noise”, Zadie Smith, Dean Blunt + Inga Copeland, Rosso’s “Babylon”, This Heat, Moor Mother, Elza Soares, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, “The Palm-Wine Drinkard”, Lil B, “SMiLE”, Arthur Lee, Alan Moore, Swamp Dogg, Devonte Hynes, Rudy Wurlitzer, Odd Future, Felix Baumgartner, Goth Money Records, Studio One, Kathleen Collins, Madlib, “Riding the Earthboy 40”, Flannery O’Connor, “The Emperor Jones”, 64-bit era, Debora Iyall, Ritchie Valenzuela + his Flying Guitar, Poly Styrene, the Black Ark, Attitude Era, George Russell, Screwed Up Click, Clarice Lispector, “A Huey P. Newton Story”, “What Absence Is Made Of”, Haile Gerima, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jay Dee, Cartoon Panda, “The Great Train Robbery”, Akon Crypto City, “Black Christ of the Andes”, Stevie Wonder, Robert Wyatt, Patrice Rushen, Geeta Dayal, John + Alice Coltrane, “EarthBound”, Grandma Moses, Nick Drake and Prince.

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