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Sue Ann Harkey - piano, vocals, violin, cymbals
Robert Hinrix - bass, drums
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But Here

Past the smells of my youth
To the view of my present future
I couldn't have gone earlier
Not before the articulation
The delineation of the form of the form

The extremity, sorted them out
The filter is straining
It's exhausted now
Progress is unappreciated
One of everything, just one

It's time, it's time to go now
Now when and where direction, decision
When to articulate the articulation
Where our self-indulgance may be seen as discipline
Control, take control
Since we learned the process of our product
In our infancy, not in the midst
Of the spectacle capitol of the world

But here, but there, but here, but there
When and where all the ones who knew
That they had to leave as well
The other ones who left
Because of their extremity
They gathered n the extremity
In the converse
In the exchange of the extreme
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(This track, 'But Here' was written while I was preparing to move to New York City from Seattle in 1983. Audio Letter had been performing in Seattle for a few years by then. Back when it was a grey and sleeping port town which all the bands avoided on their west cost tours. The original Skid-Row. And we lived literally right on top of it. Our tour of New York in 1982 convinced us that that was the place to be. So I secured an apartment in the East Village to go to and rounded the tribe up for the big move. But before I left I recorded many of these tracks and finished them off in the co-op on E. 7th Street featuring access to Elliot Sharp's ragged old piano.)

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from Nothing is Something, released May 5, 1983

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Seattle - New York - London | free improvisation | prepared guitar | folktronica | weird american | indie | alternative | singer | songs | instrumentals | underground | DIY

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