Elegy for Beach Friday

by Bee Mask

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	1.	Deducted from Your Share in Paradise 04:20
	2.	Fallen Tree Thursday and the Half-Crushed Arc of the Sky Taking Tea in the Pastoral Index 03:14
	3.	Causes and Cures 02:07
	4.	So that We Each Wander through a True Elysium 03:44
	5.	Askion Kataskion Lix Tetrax Damnameneus Aision 05:32
	6.	Elegy for Beach Friday 02:29
	7.	The Book of Stars Vibrating 03:03
	8.	In the Karst Interior 04:03
	9.	Stop the Night 10:12
	10.	How to Live in a Smashed State 02:26
	11.	Scarlet Thread, Golden Cord 07:35

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Tried to close a book that didn't stay closed.

Out back hitting a bag of jolly ranchers with a hammer. The downstairs neighbors grew vegetables and left them to rot in the yard. Once the idea of explaining the joke occurs to you, you've already fucked up.

Walking past the dump to the back end of Bartram's, nearly ten years avant la lettre. Finding the bones of an upright piano in an empty lot. Standing in line for the same pair of loosies every day for no reason (stepping in the same river twice). Casting the wrong spell at the wrong time.

In broad daylight it still seemed as though I was the only one who saw the snake in the mouth of the alley. The next day there was a dead chicken lying on the same spot. It stayed there for weeks; dogs would cross the street, averting their eyes.

The pieces that make up "Elegy for Beach Friday" are collages of material originally released on the short run (i.e. less than 100ish copies) cassettes and CDRs that were the primary thing that I did from around 2005 through around 2010. "Elegy" is simultaneously an attempt to retroactively impose some sort of order on a pretty disorganized body of work and a semi-facetious gesture of remystification/recomplication. From the vantage point of 2023, my overwhelming impression is that the way I hear that 2005-10 material now is very much not the way I heard it in 2011, but them's the breaks. (You can't write about records without writing about time and its discontents, right?)

There was an actual "beach friday" for a while. The beach itself was at the time considered one of the ten worst in the United States; I never found out where the other nine were.

Chris Madak
Philadelphia, PA, April 2023

credits

released June 3, 2011

Synthesizers, percussion, guitar, tape, electronics, and computer recorded 2003-2010 in Northampton, MA, New York, NY, Cleveland, OH, and Philadelphia, PA.

Edited and mixed at Tranquility Base, February 2011.

Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.

Photography & visual design by Chris Madak & Kate McGuire.

Thanks: Adley Atkin, Will Bankhead, Nathan Bowers, Christoph Cox, John Elliott, Sam Goldberg, Rachel Hart, Greh Holger, Andrew Kirschner, Ryan Kuehn, Sura Levine, Daniel Lopatin, Kate McGuire, Brett Naucke, Mike Pollard, Peter Rehberg, Daniel Warner, Christen Whitehouse, Witchbeam, and everyone at 18 Arhans, Almanar Market, Choy Wong Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Dedicated to the memory of Robert Seydel.

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