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Bear Proof

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Todd Sickafoose

Label: Secret Hatch Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 61:47
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Tracks

The Gold Gate; Bent Into Shape; Switched On; Flush; Magnetic North; Boom Bust Startup Ruin; Turns Luck; Prospects; Reverse Fortune.

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Album Description

62 minutes of music for 8 musicians. Intended to be performed straight-through in a concert, it��s captured here ��live�� in the studio, recorded as one continuous take. We fixed a few notes afterward �C including a moment somewhere in the first half where Jenny dropped her bow, and somewhere in the second where I dropped mine. Otherwise, this is exactly how that 62 minutes sounded. A raise of the glass to Adam Mu?oz for keeping the tape rolling without interruption at Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, California); and for that matter, to Derk Richardson �C who, the night before, encouraged us to play the whole thing live on his KPFA radio program ��The Hear and Now��. He sat amongst us, lost in his headphones, and chose quiet moments to grin and whisper the requisite station identification �C a detail that added to the sense of mischief. The fact that Fantasy has since shuttered its doors, and Derk has retired his long-running show, is a sign that it��s taken us a few years to release this album. And noting these cultural disappearances is apt because, if you��d like, BEAR PROOF can also be: A surreal meditation on BOOM and BUST. Is music perhaps better than words for talking about high times and utter ruin? In California, there��s still a bridge that spells out GOLD HERE. Let these nine song titles lead you in that direction, if you wish. �CTodd