Dipping Into Color

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Listen to the Sounds 00:57
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Listen to the sounds We've got to pay the hounds Two dollars for practicing.
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Yumbaldumbaldum 03:52
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Get Keys Go Home 03:15
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Dipping into Improv 01:33
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Overlap 04:12
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6.
Desperate Living 04:30
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The Bigger Lovers 01:08
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Tumbling Manhole 04:43
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Itchy Day Itchy Scratch Day 02:55
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Happily Munching Away 01:20
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Our Neighbor's Idea 04:53
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12.
White Rose Yellow 02:37
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Flap Residuals 02:28
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Da e ya Po ta 04:13
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Dipping into Improv Again 01:54
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16.
The Stomach Phenomenon 04:14
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17.
An Unpleasant Afternoon 01:39
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18.
Steve's Tune Number Two 03:27
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Live to Tape 02:26
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20.
Clown Justification 03:20
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Original liner notes:

It's been two years since our last recording, ``Dire Images of Beauty.'' A lot has happened in the world, and we're pretty upset about much of it. Perhaps "Dire Images" could be heard as part one of our requiem for the U.S.A., with "Dipping Into Color" as the second and final part. Not to be melodramatic. It's just that our illiterate country unveils new forms of meanness on a daily basis.

Music is essential to the ongoing celebration of being. Sun Ra warned that musicians had better think about what they play, "because when you play music, you're talking to the Creator." Music speaks to the creator in all of us... but in real-world terms, it's difficult to present music to a society in which creativity is often harnessed to the task of just getting by. It's like hobbling a race horse to pull a plow.

Today we're just pleased as punch itself to present "Dipping Into Color": a celebration of the foundations of algebraic thought. ("Algebra" means "the reunion").

*Dipping* into color as Dionysus dips into wine: becoming thoroughly drunk with color, actually. We're celebrating the anniversary of the sense of sight---as well as its loss.

It Was, after all, Our Neighbor's Idea.

-- Dan Plonsey, October, 1993

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released October 31, 1993

Dan Plonsey: saxophones, vocals
Randy Porter: guitar, vocals
Steve Horowitz: bass
Ward Spangler: mallet percussion, extra drums
Jim Bove: drums
with Mantra Plonsey on track 3.

Engineering by Steve Horowitz
Art: Dan Plonsey

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Dan Plonsey El Cerrito, California

Dan Plonsey is a composer and saxophonist. Inspired by music from many times and places, his compositions are irrationally rational, simple-minded, and melodic. The world which enjoys his music celebrates imperfection. Plonsey considers his works the result of being "at least slightly out of step with nearly everything. It draws upon all of my weaknesses as much as upon my strengths." ... more

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