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Alice Does It All Again

from In Memory of Captain Tank by John Tabacco

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Music and Words © 2019 by John Tabacco
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC)

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ALICE DOES IT ALL AGAIN

Alice was a mystery. An email correspondence from the ether decades later, traveling in the back of the composer's dreams, tracking his every thought in dimensions hitherto unknown to the people in this area but destine to take the place of the mudshark... Wait a minute - I've heard that somewhere before. Yes - from the album "Apostrophe". It's all starting to jumble together. There it is again: "Ether". The subconscious puzzle pieces swirling around, force fitting multi colored peacocks through a series of frustrations and deliberate allusions. The father, the mother, created in ether, the composer who rambles on about nothing in nowhere thinking of Alice from a long time ago in the backyard as he as a young boy pulled down his pants to defecate on the grass. The sight of which drove the young girl hysterical, screaming for his parents. Scary sounds of Pilgrim State looming in the forefront always ready to take him to the curb and leave him there alone on that gray existential afternoon. It was then and will forever be an ongoing relfectamenta situation that twists and turns and wrenches the fragile arrogant snout of this unladen swallow. Whereupon sense and nonsense make their way through the evening traffic pointing only to the grave sight that was already in progress waiting for the ultimate cue to do it all again. Do it all again! Meanwhile, Alice from the future Nordic land is painting dark seas with stealth submarines below, spying on the boys humiliated situations that can no longer be hidden. And thus, a new horizon of freedom is beginning. Confirming what has been known for eons... Pointlessness is the center of creation. The dwelling of which controlled by a force of never knowing energy dines in the plea of formidable aspects and perspectives not withstanding. The other - the ether - the neither - the shades in between life forever tainted by an Aunt Shirley's desire for ignorance and the bliss that often follows. So it's come down to this in waves of euphoria. In waves of ether. In waves of hunger never quenched.

He finally realized that all his music making and desire to be a truly independent artist amounted to a pretty much meaningless existence. In fact, that was the only meaning. He played his role here in this three dimensional hallucination, lived in his mind and waited out the rest of his external life as it followed to it's logical conclusion. Why he came back here to begin with was a burning question he hoped he'd get an answer to. Or not. He could never know anything for certain. Bummer.

FREEDUMB...

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from In Memory of Captain Tank, released January 1, 2020
JT : Instruments, Voice
Tom Automatic : Trumpet
Bloody Rich : Multiple drummage

Recorded and mixed at Suburban Hermit Studios II, Stony Brook, NY

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

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