the fish eats its face, by the octave doktors

the fish eats its face

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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

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1.	call me ishmael 02:29	info
2.	the pipe 04:33
3.	you can be my queequeg anyday 03:05
4.	where is your harpoon? 01:38
5.	a squeeze of the hand 02:28
6.	the gulls of dawn 04:36
7.	the carpenter 02:04	info
8.	i've seen the elephant 02:38
9.	paint a tire yellow 03:45
10.	dead lumber 02:24	info
11.	somebody's buick 03:39
12.	even if it's clumsy 04:17
13.	she loved thomas pynchon 04:05
14.	good ole rotgut 06:27
15.	measured for a leg 03:10	info
16.	for the long haul 03:18
17.	ridin into the storm 02:43
18.	now in calm weather 01:11	info
19.	the rest of the shipwreck 05:09
20.	the castaway 03:07	info
21.	broadway moon 04:45	info
22.	now small fowls 01:16
23.	the gulls of dawn 02:00	info

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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.

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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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