The Existencils

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Existencils is a solo recording project by Nick Often. Live collaborators have included Joe Delano, Brian Denny, Melody Often, and the robot Giacometti. A songwriter and independent producer for over ten years, Often is known for his genre-spanning productions. As a young solo act, he self-released two EPs and an LP in Portland, OR. In 2001, a digital EP came in the form of Famous Ghosts, the result of some broken keyboards, a few recording days, and collaboration with an old friend. Relocating to Baltimore in 2002 via his first relocation (NYC), Often continued playing out and recording. In 2006, after another relocation, he and some pals in Los Angeles formed The Baby Mammals, an indie rock three piece that recorded an EP and staged a tour up the West Coast before disbanding to pursue other projects. This is when Nick Often wrote Twenty Second Sensory. Often then spent the second half of 2007 in the years 2101-2104, beginning recording on the album in the year that its story line crescendos. Often has said that recording that far into the future helped him to connect more fully with his material and to ultimately come to terms with his future incarceration, which he learned of while writing about it. Twenty Second Sensory begins in the summer of 2085 with Often's character indulging in youthful intemperance before being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Two years into his sentence, his niece is born. A bionoid helped into the world by a host of advanced technologie

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