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"After the Sleep of Lies" was written during the waning days of the United States' awful 45th presidency. I was thinking of Brazilian tropicalia, though it would be facetious to compare our chaotic, clownish 45th to Brazil's genuinely totalitarian military dictatorship. Although the song speaks about emerging from political darkness, it is rather caustic about the future. Sarah LeMieux's vocal is perfection. An animation of the song is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cj-y58UbuY

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After the sleep of lies / Reason awakens / And looks around for a clean shirt / Something without blood on it / Without a corporate logo / Or the stink of betrayal / As he grinds his coffee / He tries to remember / Who he was in bed with / And who did what to who / He's not sure where he's going / He just has to get out / The room is stale / Dreams spilled on the carpet / Empty words rolling under the chairs / He's thinking of the time before all this started / Before he closed the door / And stopped thinking / He's thinking now of how the city looks / With its corners and gardens / And whether it's too early to call everyone / To call everyone back / Or too late

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from Music for the Exploration of Elusive Phenomena, released June 18, 2021
Julian Gerstin, music, lyrics, percussion
Sarah LeMieux, vocal
Don Anderson, flugelhorn
Anna Patton, clarinet
John Wheeler, trombone
Eugene Uman, piano, co-arranger
Wes Brown, bass
Ben James, drum set

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Julian Gerstin Brattleboro, Vermont

Julian is a percussionist and composer whose music reflects his experience with musicians in and from Cuba, Martinique, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Bulgaria, and Egypt as well as jazz from trad New Orleans to experimental.

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