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snag a flash of it

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February 17, 2022
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the faces in the throw

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My Big Breakthe faces in the throw
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#107
February 10, 2022
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a holler from behind a door

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My Big Breaka holler from behind a door
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#106
February 3, 2022
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secret dark art happening

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My Big Breaksecret dark art happening
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#105
January 27, 2022
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like riotous chrysanthemum bulbs

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My Big Breaklike riotous chrysanthemum bulbs
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#104
January 20, 2022
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(paid preview) squinting right into the lens

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every few weeks this newsletter will be for premium subscribers only and today’s installment is one of those ~

paying mbb readers got a self-destructive slapper of a track and thoughts on why I love watching human faces speaking into cameras (but I won’t withhold my recommendations: “Where Are We? Our Trip Through America,” the films of Les Blank, “How to with John Wilson”).

i’m also going to try something ambitious - all paying readers will also be entitled to one personal tone zone per year

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#103
January 13, 2022
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squinting right into the lens

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My Big Breaksquinting right into the lens
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#102
January 13, 2022
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a little spear of night in their beak

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#101
January 6, 2022
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heaven is a void between load screens

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My Big Breakheaven is a void between load screens
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#100
December 30, 2021
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against a miraculous backdrop

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https://mybigbreak.bandcamp.com/track/against-a-miraculous-backdrop

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#99
December 23, 2021
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civil twilight, tandem bicycle

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click the link / cemetery at dusk to listen - - -

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#98
December 16, 2021
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feels like my house suddenly has walls

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My Big Breakfeels like my house suddenly has walls
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#97
December 9, 2021
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I want to hold it all up to the light

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My Big BreakI want to hold it all up to the light
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#96
December 2, 2021
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coaxed from the walls by wild coincidence

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#95
November 25, 2021
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big and brave enough

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My Big Breakbig and brave enough

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#94
November 18, 2021
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mirror in the shape of my face

My Big Breakmirror in the shape of my face

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today's track is partially me remembering how to play acoustic guitar

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#93
November 11, 2021
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a glimmering chain of yes

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#92
November 4, 2021
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their shining sword

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#91
October 28, 2021
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hands at 10 and 2

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#90
October 21, 2021
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the rollicking scrub

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#89
October 14, 2021
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paid preview - the warmth between you hangs there, swirling

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every few weeks this newsletter will be for premium subscribers only and today’s installment is one of those!

premium mbb readers got a surprisingly crunchy weekly track, thoughts on how to shape your kitchen with your laughter, and a very special live recording from when I played a baby grand piano in a stately manor in Amsterdam last month ~

these subscriptions help me a lot and keep this project going - i would greatly appreciate your support if you like our thursdays together ~

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#88
October 7, 2021
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the warmth between you hangs there, swirling

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#87
October 7, 2021
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paint thinner punch from a styrofoam cup

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#86
September 30, 2021
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dancing bodies would vanish

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#85
September 23, 2021
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cutting the last hour of the velvet

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#84
September 16, 2021
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it held high the martyrs

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#83
September 9, 2021
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little hoots of pained delight

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#82
September 2, 2021
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a ghost with its shoelaces tied together

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#81
August 26, 2021
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wherever the thunder rumbles down

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#80
August 19, 2021
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the less of it

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#79
August 12, 2021
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carving granite in the dark

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#78
August 5, 2021
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is that hope realistic?

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#77
July 29, 2021
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preview ~ I wanna damage a windshield in the parking lot

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today’s newsletter is for paying subscribers - it includes big washes of synth swells, a rundown of just how great it felt to sing and sweat for a gathered crowd last weekend, and a picture of my big, beautiful birthday cake

When the drums came in it sounded so tremendous, bigger than I’ve ever heard it. I was beaming and singing, and then right on cue, at a painfully perfect moment in the song’s crescendo, Liam turned on the fog and the lasers, which joined the already spinning disco ball. Like heaven opening, truly.

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#76
July 22, 2021
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I wanna damage a windshield in the parking lot

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#75
July 22, 2021
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ever flawed, never ceasing

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#74
July 15, 2021
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fogged-out pacific vistas

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#73
July 8, 2021
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in the ear of the hearer

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#72
July 1, 2021
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the harmonies hovered, a visible cloud

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#71
June 24, 2021
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drink straight from the champagne fountain, yes, now, and more

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#70
June 17, 2021
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The Song Bends in the Air

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#69
June 10, 2021
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Goblin Meal

Good morning ~

To be honest my friends I am feeling quite wrung out. Not bad, necessarily - just a bit less to say than usual and just a little depleted after launching the ship that is my latest record. I don’t have a full newsletter in me this week. In fact, I think I’d like to take a couple weeks off! I’m going to do that. But I’ll be back soon, possibly on a different platform with a possibly altered format.

I did make a new track this week, though, and I hope you will accept this 19-minute zoner as a consolation. A few weeks ago I sat in a rocking chair listening to lazily bonking wind chimes clanging against each other and I couldn’t recall ever hearing something so great - - tried to capture if not the sound than the vibe of that porch in this recording:

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#68
May 13, 2021
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Cicada Waves 1

Hi - I have a record that just came out called CICADA WAVES.

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#67
May 6, 2021
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Cicada Waves

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#66
April 30, 2021
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3pm Rainstorm

Hi - I have a record coming out TOMORROW called CICADA WAVES.

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#65
April 29, 2021
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Cicada Waves 2

Hi - I have a record coming out at the end of this month called CICADA WAVES. It’ll be out on April 30th. Until then I’m using this space to share the video for each song and different written takes on aspects of the album ~ hope you enjoy.

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#64
April 22, 2021
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Rain and Cicadas

Hi - I have a record coming out at the end of this month called CICADA WAVES. It’ll be out on April 30th. Until then I’m using this space to share the video for each song and different written takes on aspects of the album ~ hope you enjoy.

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#63
April 15, 2021
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11pm Sudden Thunderstorm

Hi - I have a record coming out at the end of this month called CICADA WAVES. It’ll be out on April 30th. Until then I’m using this space to share the video for each song and different written takes on aspects of the album ~ hope you enjoy:

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#62
April 8, 2021
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8pm Crickets

This audio was recorded on land formerly occupied by Cherokee people, in one studio that's part of a campus of buildings on a plot of land located in an unincorporated community known today as Rabun Gap. Rabun Gap is a part of Rabun County, Georgia, and just a few miles northwest down the road from the town of Dillard, a town named for a white man. The county itself is also named for a white man - William Rabun, a slaveholder and notoriously staunch defender of Georgia militia actions that, during the First Seminole War, mistakenly killed ten uninvolved Creek people. The nearest creek and the road on which the campus is located, though, are seemingly named for a "Cherokee Indian widow," according to a guidebook from 1975 I read a .PDF copy of - nobody I asked knew anything other than that.

Hundreds of years ago, long before 1760 - which is the date that currently begins the "History" section of the Wikipedia article on Rabun County, Georgia - the Cherokee thrived in flourishing and well-organized communities in the northeast-most corner of what we now call Georgia. There were multiple settlements in the area now, each their own social organization.

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#61
April 1, 2021
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Fog Rolls Out Rabun Gap

In one sense this is a quarantine record. It was made during that long and still unfolding time when it was best we didn’t see each other. I was sleeping in a small bedroom off of a dance studio in the woods, without a partner or a single roommate cohabitating in the building. It was, in fact, the most totally alone I had been save for a hurried and, in hindsight, frankly kind of terrifying drive to rural Ohio when things were at their worst in the city. Social distancing is funny that way - it actually caused me to spend way more time with specific people and way less time with everyone else.

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#60
March 25, 2021
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Announcing: Cicada Waves

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#59
March 24, 2021
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