Memory Drawings

I play in a hammered-dulcimer-fronted band with eight other musicians who live on three different continents. We only ever see one another when we're touring.

[Memory Drawings @memory_drawings]

Song of the week: "I Had a List and I Lost It" by The Drift. This is my favorite track from the band's 2008 record Memory Drawings.
https://t.co/dFvAYruyl4

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Song of the week: "Tournament" by Nation of Language from the band's debut album: Introduction, Presence. NoL has tapped into its own optimistic sonic universe and this track is going to be on a lot of mix tapes.
https://t.co/fb9x0rRGqc
@notionofanguish

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@armsandsleepers I will be your first pre-order if that happens.

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Song of the week: "M_L-04" by Arms and Sleepers from the 2020 record: Memory Loops. This dreamy, hypnotic album can only be fully appreciated in its entirety, as I did so often during the COVID pandemic. I wish it was available on vinyl.
https://t.co/ZUtLYsC5iE
@armsandsleepers

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Song of the week: "Our Day Will Come" by Dead Can Dance. It's good to hear the return of the hammered dulcimer and the return of inspirational lyrics like this homage to the Palestinians: "I'm coming home when my people are free."
https://t.co/7FIaqHd5Sk

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Song of the week: "Not Even Almost" by El Ten Eleven from the band's 2023 record "Valley of Fire." There's a Do Make Say Think vibe to this one that I really love.
https://t.co/4N38wkirSR
@ElTenEleven

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Song of the week: "24 Hours" by The Burning Leaves. This one is not a duet, but Indie Mae harmonizes with herself in a few places about two and have minutes into the track. She has one of the smoothest, purest voices I've ever heard.
https://t.co/uVmYwJp8ha

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Song of the week: "Turned Tables" by Should from their 2011 record Like a Fire Without Sound. This is another wonderful duet to soothe your soul during a very dark moment in American history.
https://t.co/33ctGchrTE

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Song of the week: "In Your Room" by Devics from their 2003 record The Stars at Saint Andrea, which I recommend revisiting. This is one of my all-time favorite duets, along with "Turned Tables" by Should.
https://t.co/Y1D4YXafHD

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Song of the week: "Cannibal World" by Nothing from the band's new record: A Short History of Decay." As one viewer remarked after watching the video: "I can't wait for the plants to reclaim us all."
https://t.co/jb8SqacSJd

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Song of the week: " I Just Wanted to Make You Something Beautiful," which I first heard a decade ago on a train from Casablanca to Kenitra in Morocco. I'm sharing it now for the simple reminder that there is still a small amount of beauty in the world.
https://t.co/YMmQ6cs4J4

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@FuckingMusicMac Ava Adore
https://t.co/XJSQBWdcqA

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Song of the week: "Shore Lined Poison" by Skinny Puppy from the band's 1990 masterpiece "Too Dark Park." I have always loved the unparalleled descent into chaos of the final 90 seconds of this track.
https://t.co/PoKLs48dA7
@skinnypuppy_

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Song of the week: "A Brighter Tomorrow" by Mandy Indiana from the new record: Urgh. It's a bleak but cathartic track for those who are enraged by the state-sponsored terror my blind, self-serving government keeps unleashing on imaginary enemies.
https://t.co/JFHxb6Wk7G

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Song of the week: "Freedom Fighter" by Bowery Electric seems appropriate after the US military's insane, unprovoked attack on Iran a few days ago. "Another day, another world war / Find out walking through the grocery store." (No more war! No more war!)
https://t.co/FTQr5gi67r

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The United States is a dictatorship of capital where both parties serve the rich and the entire society is built on exploiting workers at home and waging endless wars abroad all to enrich the billionaire class. This is the regime that needs to change for the world to know peace.

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@jaysonwold @PaulCharchian I teach ESL at a local library that just put it on the shelves. If it's there this week, I'm going to check it out.

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@uphillinvisible I grew up in Bloomington, MN and as a kid there was nothing better than getting a "snow day" once the radio announced that your school was closed for the day. NJ is totally ill-equipped to deal with a storm of this magnitude, so we're going to get a second snow day tomorrow!

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Song of the week: "Last Snowstorm of the Year" by Low. As NJ gets buried in yet another blizzard, this was the first song on my lips this morning.
https://t.co/sdnuqzTOeN
@lowtheband

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@momlisa1965 @PaulCharchian And Paul has an appreciation for great music and film, too.