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the fish eats its face

by the octave doktors

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    the physical object of this album. handmade covers containing all 23 tracks of the new octave doktors album. aaaaaaaand, 3 special whale linocut prints. enjoy!

    this new octave doktors album is a windy evocation of herman melville's 'moby dick', cars, television, travel & time. the amazing special guest doktors throw their harpoons in the ring & commence flensing your earholes. edgar oliver reads moby dick on seven tracks & thomas pynchon on one.

    aaron howard - vox, pump organ, korg, jew's harp & harmonica
    edgar oliver - vox, percussion
    ghost lee pat - guitar & percussion
    david francis - guitar
    sami buccella - bass
    david schneider - beats
    naomi gold - vox, keyboard, xylophone & percussion
    robert o'haire - drums
    ernestus jiminy chald - organ & synth
    sarah moskowitz - vox, banjolele, kick drum & autoharp

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1.
call me ishmael 02:29
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the pipe 04:33
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you can be my queequeg anyday 03:05
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where is your harpoon? 01:38
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a squeeze of the hand 02:28
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the gulls of dawn 04:36
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the carpenter 02:04
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i've seen the elephant 02:38
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paint a tire yellow 03:45
10.
dead lumber 02:24
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somebody's buick 03:39
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even if it's clumsy 04:17
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she loved thomas pynchon 04:05
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good ole rotgut 06:27
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measured for a leg 03:10
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for the long haul 03:18
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ridin into the storm 02:43
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now in calm weather 01:11
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the rest of the shipwreck 05:09
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the castaway 03:07
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21.
broadway moon 04:45
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now small fowls 01:16
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the gulls of dawn 02:00
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this new octave doktors album is a windy evocation of herman melville's 'moby dick', cars, television, travel & time. the amazing special guest doktors throw their harpoons in the ring & commence flensing your earholes. edgar oliver reads moby dick on seven tracks & thomas pynchon on one.

aaron howard - vox, pump organ, korg, jew's harp & harmonica
edgar oliver - vox, percussion
ghost lee pat - guitar & percussion
david francis - guitar
sami buccella - bass
david schneider - beats
naomi gold - vox, keyboard, xylophone & percussion
robert o'haire - drums
ernestus jiminy chald - organ & synth
sarah moskowitz - vox, banjolele, kick drum & autoharp

all songs by aaron howard & ghost lee pat.
special thanks to: herman melville & thomas pynchon; rusty cars; sophie glass; ernestus jiminy chald; wild wild west;
jojo lazar kindly influenced the arrangements of queequeg & thomas pynchon;
ghost lee pat wrote the words for 'broadway moon';
'rotgut' for asc helvetius
the lyrics of 'the rest of the shipwreck' & 'even if it's clumsy' are from a forthcoming book of poems by julia pello & aaron howard;
these gulls belong to lieke koopmans.
castro & friendly are cute. & so is wolvie.

credits

released September 5, 2017

aaron howard - vox, pump organ, korg, jew's harp & harmonica
edgar oliver - vox, percussion
ghost lee pat - guitar & percussion
david francis - guitar
sami buccella - bass
david schneider - beats
naomi gold - vox, keyboard, xylophone & percussion
robert o'haire - drums
ernestus jiminy chald - organ & synth
sarah moskowitz - vox, banjolele, kick drum & autoharp

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edgar oliver - words
aaron howard - words & harp
jeff burns - banjo
ghost lee pat - guitar
sami buccella - bass, organ, percussion
sarah moskowitz - uke, vox, keys, drums & bass

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