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Michael Zapruder
12+ albums
indieindie popmarylandCaliforniawashington
about
When you're asleep, you're you. When you wake up, you are, as well. But how that works, how we can be as ethereal as vapor at night, and then feel so solid during the day, is more than a little strange. That mysterious, single, connecting thing that persists through all of our states of mind is elusive, and worth seeking. In Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope, the new record by Michael Zapruder, we just might hear that thing speak. Dragon is a record of contrasts and oddities that moves with easy dreamlike logic from the everyday to the everynight, presenting opposites without attempting to resolve them. In the process, it offers a glimpse of wildness at the core of humanism. Zapruder and Scott Solter (Spoon, Mountain Goats, Two Gallants, John Vanderslice) recorded and mixed the record in a two-week session at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studio. Somewhere in that undertaking, like fishermen dangling a net deep into the darkest waters of the Pacific, they ensnared something loose, weird, old, formless, and potent. Zapruder brought a two-part mission statement with him. First was the idea of negative capability, the ability to be "in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason". The second was a line from a poem by contemporary poet Joshua Beckman: "This party is fucked without the karate chop of love". With these in mind, Zapruder set about making something that would reside squarely where discontinuity and faith meet. Twenty-fi
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Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope
this is a beautiful town
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Pink Thunder
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New Ways Of Letting Go
Daytrotter Session - 7/19/2009
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Now Hear This! The Independent Music Awards 9th Annual Winne
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Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope - Get Free Music at RCRD LBL.com
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Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems By Younger American Poets
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Songs for Laura, Vol. Two
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Pink Thunder (Advance)
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Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horosc
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Now Hear This! The Independent Music Awards 9th Annual Winners