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Another Day in the Desert

by Zooanzoo

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1.
Scratch Eye 03:31
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2.
Belly Full of Rocks 03:30
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Let it all fizzle out. I got things, you got things, hold me off. Feel not, and who when and why. For now got my belly full of rocks. Long way down. But for now got my belly full of rocks. And I am done. For now got my belly full of rocks. Beg, it makes no difference. It's only a bad kind of look. For now got my belly, "Fuck it up" Dim the lights. However you find a way. For now got my belly full of rocks. Even now got my belly full of rocks.
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Limbo 02:00
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4.
Apologies 02:44
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Apologies. For what? Drain me out, cut it out. You know that you are, just as you are. Keep it simple. One thing at a time. Well face it, you can do it all. These words, these words are nothing more than what I keep around. Your life, your life is not your own. Apologies.
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The Grazing Creature of Light 02:32
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Parachuting 02:11 video
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Tangled 02:37
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Turn it all around. When heaven wants a song. I'm not yet weeping, even the sun will fall. Simmer down, take it easy. And I forgot how to breathe, afraid of my own voice. I'm not yet weeping, it's only time now. I'm not yet weeping, and that's the song.
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Until Next Time 03:34
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"I guess it’s important to start with the name, 'Another Day in the Desert,' which is simply an expression; that numbing sensation of apathy that sets in from being exhausted by loss and hyper-empathy, having to carry on and that. Sort of acts as a mantra or some phrase you’d use in order to keep grounded."

Shrouded by the weight of loss, Another Day in the Desert is an exploration of grief. That palpable sense of sorrowful exhaustion looms over these tracks in a way that suggests it's perfectly okay to embrace the process—even when you feel consumed by darkness.

"Lots of death about in my life, and in all our lives lately, some from present proximity, others as love from younger times, and many times as a witness through our digital portals. Mortality smiles all around us, alive just the same as we say we are—or make believe ourselves to be—and these songs are just part of the process. The idea of a desert is simultaneously very soothing with expanse and mystical grandeur, and also dreadful and barren, but people find a way."

As the end of one's life is in many ways a return to form, so too Another Day in the Desert finds Zooanzoo returning to sounds and stylings from an earlier time. Before Zooanzoo began crafting its unmistakable brand of lofi hip-hop and soulful noise pop, Zoo was known for writing stripped-down chamber folk. Those organic timbres are deeply-rooted in Another Day in the Desert, yet there is an undeniable synthesis of old and new. While piano, strings, and voice dominate, electronic textures are tastefully layered to provide depth and character.

"There’s a quote from this book by Viktor Frankl that goes, 'The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.' Seems in the deepest suffering, even the memory of people can keep us going, our minds are so curious during times of survival. I was bathing in these thoughts a lot, soaking in them while I created these songs. But I don’t mean to romanticize my experience, or others'. In the end we all resonate on similar frequencies and experiences. This album is just another piece of that."

Ultimately, we are connected through our experience of isolation and anguish, and Zooanzoo is finding a way.

For Terry, and Molly, and all who are loved.

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released February 28, 2020

Music written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Zoo.
Album art by Zoo. Illustrations by C.
Mastering, additional mixing, and cassette layout/design by Cy.

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