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Music For The Fire

by People Like Us & Wobbly

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Fiction 01:55
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2.
Naked Little Girl 04:52
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3.
Sheep Laid Out To Dry 01:05
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4.
Partners 02:48
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5.
Okay 00:54
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6.
Giant Love Ball 03:02
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Goodbye 00:55
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8.
Woman 04:25
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9.
Female Convict 03:15
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10.
Pick Up 03:35
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11.
Everyone Alone 01:03
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12.
Hello 00:46
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13.
A New Baby 01:57
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14.
Fertile 04:21
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15.
Bad News 03:33
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16.
Understanding You 01:28
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17.
Pain 05:18
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about

I asked Vicki if she wanted to share her Bandcamp post of this to my page, and she told me oh just post it yourself, so... here it is. While this is the album we clocked the highest number of hours / years upon, it's only one of many, all of which I still count on, and which anyone can find here, along with the treasured rest of it: peoplelikeus-vickibennett.bandcamp.com

Original Press Release:

The fruit of many years of work, this album began as People Like Us & Wobbly collected and collaged their way through various depictions of misfired communications and heartbreak sourced from popular culture for a series of live improvisations. Music For The Fire is a plunderphonic concept album depicting the lifespan of a relationship, as told through samples of hundreds of different songs and voices who had no idea they were all telling the same story until they were all spliced together.

Strangely direct and evocative for an album assembled entirely from a patchwork of disparate sources and music both obscure and over-familiar, Music For The Fire comes with an illustrated lyric sheet which reproduces the countless sampled voices as a single if utterly schizophrenic text — a bedtime story that is wildly inappropriate for actual children. No reliable narrators, just the familiar and absurd, which on different spins of the disc might strike you as either maudlin, poignant or almost painfully hilarious. There is a way out of the maze, but it’s up to you to find it.

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released June 15, 2010

Vicki Bennett & Jon Leidecker, 2001-2010

Originally released on CD by Illegal Art as IA121

Download includes scans of the digipak packaging, including the original 8 page booklet containing lyrics and illustrations. Also a scan of fam Kembrew McLeod's interview with People Like Us & Wobbly, as published by Little Village magazine in May 2010.

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Wobbly San Francisco, California

Born in Washington D.C. in 1970, and residing in California since 1983, Jon Leidecker improvises with people, recordings and machines that listen.

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