Feed a Pigeon, Breed a Rat, by Zach Phillips

Feed a Pigeon, Breed a Rat

by Zach Phillips

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privaterow This record turns my brain off in the best possible way. As soon as I put it on I'm in wonderland. Favorite track: Album #9 [Luke Csehak].

Steven Smith ZP returns with this large batch of unique tunes. zach phillips is one of the most creative songwriters around. to me this music represents freedom. there are limitless possibilities and limitless possibilities to make things sound good. feed zach and breed imagination!

Grant at this rate, Zach & la Loi are going to drop album of the decade by early 2022. flirtations of sophisti-pop and avant-prog curated as radio drama Favorite track: Know What? [Genevieve Artadi].

Lars Gotrich The point of a pop song is that, if written well, anyone can sing it; this 22-track album, with just as many guest singers, splashes some booze on the songwriter savant for an avant-pop flambé. www.vikingschoice.org/archive/avant-pop-fuzz-improv-bilingual-d-beat/ Favorite track: Just Lack Anything [Sarah Swillum].

itisbettertoknow Can’t get over how well executed this all is

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	1.	Starblind [Davin Givhan] 02:23 video
	2.	Know What? [Genevieve Artadi] 02:43
	3.	Get the Power Back [Christopher Forgues] 01:38
	4.	Carry the One [Sarah Smith] 01:23
	5.	Dance Away [Tori Kudo] 02:12
	6.	When I Go Live [Lindsay Dobbs] 02:47
	7.	What World? [Thom Gill] 01:45
	8.	Featherwish [Von Lee] 01:42
	9.	Unmistakable [William Austin Clay] 02:08
	10.	Far Red [Paige Johnson-Brown] 01:30
	11.	Just Call the Fool [Alice Cohen] 01:17
	12.	Interrupted [Sam Wilkes] 02:23
	13.	Ten Days [Maralie Armstrong-Rial] 01:27
	14.	Album #9 [Luke Csehak] 02:10
	15.	Just Lack Anything [Sarah Swillum] 02:21
	16.	Lectric Sled [Caroline Bennett] 01:39
	17.	Their Parents [Cleopatra Mathis] 01:10
	18.	Twilight [Ko Takasugi-Czernowin] 01:35
	19.	I Can Obey [Lina Tullgren] 01:40
	20.	I'm Sorry [Danny Bissette] 01:52
	21.	Intervention [Mark Gergis, Quentin Moore] 03:18
	22.	Heaven a Smile [Ma Clément, Raphaël Desmarets, Jennifer Herrema] 03:18

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"When the lance bearers return
Rainy Novembers,
A learned dog, a huge dog
Is making mysterious sums.
He counts, he counts, he counts again,
All sorrows are called absence
All sorrows bearing lances."
-- Armen Lubin, 1946 (translated by Andrew Weller for Michel de M’Uzan, "Permanent Disquiet")

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FEED A PIGEON, BREED A RAT
Zach Phillips: all writing, recording, & instrumentation except additional credits below
Annie Loucka: narration, cover painting
Ryan Power: mixing, mastering
Robert Beatty: design

singers' additional credits:
Davin Givhan: lead/strum guitars, guitar solos (1)
Christopher Forgues: homemade electronics (3)
Tori Kudo: guitar solo (5)
Lindsay Dobbs: trombone (6)
Thom Gill: guitars thruout + guitar solo (7)
Von Lee: flute (8)
William Austin Clay: innocence stanza (9)
Paige Johnson-Brown: solo section guitars/keys (10)
Alice Cohen: organ solo (11)
Sam Wilkes: bass (12)
Maralie Armstrong-Rial: ambience (13)
Luke Csehak: horns (14)
Sarah Swillum: all keyboards/samples (15)
Ko Takasugi-Czernowin: all non-guitar/bass instruments (13, 18)
Danny Bissette: acoustic guitar (20)
Quentin Moore: all production, claims, impersonation (21)
Mark Gergis: Porest impersonation (21)
Raphaël Desmarets: guitar solos (22)
Jennifer Herrema: xaphoon solo (22)

"la Loi" #03. recorded March to August 2020 mostly on Tascam 388 mostly in East Thetford, Vermont. this is "My Revenge" Pt. II, following How to Slip Away (2017): zachphillips.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-slip-away

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Robert Beatty
robertbeattyart.com
robertbeatty.bandcamp.com

Ryan Power
ryanpower.bandcamp.com

Davin Givhan
detangler.bandcamp.com

Genevieve Artadi
genevieveartadi.bandcamp.com
expensivemagnetsmusic.bandcamp.com
knowermusic.bandcamp.com

Christopher Forgues
333cf.org
channel69.bandcamp.com

Sarah Smith
blancheblancheblanche.bandcamp.com

Tori Kudo
torikudo.bandcamp.com
okrainarecords.bandcamp.com/album/je-est-un-autre

Lindsay Dobbs
starlaonline.bandcamp.com

Thom Gill
isthisthomas.bandcamp.com
bernice.bandcamp.com

Von Lee
godcaster.bandcamp.com

William Austin Clay
yalc123.bandcamp.com
williamaustinclay.bandcamp.com

Paige Johnson-Brown
irrevery.bandcamp.com

Alice Cohen
alicecohen.bandcamp.com

Sam Wilkes
samwilkes.bandcamp.com
samgendelsamwilkes.bandcamp.com

Maralie Armstrong-Rial
valise.bandcamp.com
humanbeast.bandcamp.com
maralie.com

Luke Csehak
thelentils.bandcamp.com

Sarah Swillum
jimjim.bandcamp.com

Caroline Bennett
www.carolinebeatricebennett.com
stice.bandcamp.com

Cleopatra Mathis
www.sarabandebooks.org/titles-20192039/after-the-body-poems-new-and-selected

Ko Takasugi-Czernowin
kot-c.bandcamp.com

Lina Tullgren
linatullgren.bandcamp.com

Danny Bissette
thecaseofthemissingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lifeling

Mark Gergis
porest.bandcamp.com

Quentin Moore
bigfrench.bandcamp.com

Ma Clément
fievelisglauque.com

Raphaël Desmarets
www.discogs.com/artist/4320694-Rapha%C3%ABl-Desmarets
quentinstokart.bandcamp.com/album/mg

Jennifer Herrema
blackbananasband.bandcamp.com
royaltruxmusic.bandcamp.com

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“Be that as it may, this reference indicates why my own experience is not the same, my experience of what one can see, when one is young, on the beach, that is, where one cannot make a hole without water welling up in it. Well, to come out with it, this is an annoyance which also wells up in me faced with the crab’s sideways walk, ever ready to hide its intention to pinch your fingers. They’re very dexterous things, crabs. You can give one a pack to shuffle, which is nowhere near as hard as opening a mussel, something it does every day… well, even were there no more than two cards, it would still try to scramble them.”
-- Jacques Lacan, 1963 (Seminar X, “Anxiety," translated by A.R. Price)

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released September 6, 2021

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not a label; just a self-release imprint by Zach Phillips (f.k.a. OSR [2007-17])

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