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MUSIC FOR BIODOMES

by Gregory King

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The text is an excerpt from the play "Adam and Evie", by Charles Mee. Used by permission. We know so much of another person in the first few moments we meet. Not from what a person says alone, but from the way they hold their head. How they listen. What they do with their hand as they speak. Or when they are silent.
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The spoken text in this song are excerpts from the scientific paper "Modeling Giant Extrasolar Ring Systems in Eclipse and the Case of J1407b: Sculpting by Exomoons?", by E. E. Mamajek and M.A. Kenworthy. Courtesy E.E. Mamajek, Deputy Chief Scientist NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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The spoken text in this song are excerpts from a pathology report taken after I had received chemotherapy for lymphoma cancer, in 2014. The language describes that no cancer cells appear any longer after two rounds of six total infusions, and was the first indication that I would survive my cancer.
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Suns have bellies because they live in space. They have bellies, and then they have planets in their bellies and then they hold them with hands and then they take them out. And the Sun shines in the morning [Greg: What about at night?] Okay, it's–the sun's in the night. [Greg: Where does the Sun go?] It goes in space!
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we lose our way in ember dusk sans signal woods and window fog the road gives way to earthen clay our arguments again, again we reach a bluff an edge, an end in trembling red the engine’s cut a raptor cries and dives, descends and violet ink installs the stars you turn to me I turn away the turning of the earth is underway the Milky Way arcs high, adrift and darker still the pines the needles black and resolute despite the dark replete, alive I center in my woods again my solace drawn in evergreens
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"Music for Biodomes" is Gregory King's debut full-length album.

The Ensoniq ASR-88 keyboard belonging to the late musician and composer Jason Noble was used as the primary keyboard controller in the making of this record. Certain samples Noble had recorded (but which don't appear on any published recordings) were rediscovered by King during the creative process, and have been incorporated into the tracks How They Listen; Memoria; and Cosmology.

Special thanks to Ashley Steimer-King and the King family, Kevin Ratterman at Invisible Creature, Stephen Webber, Christian and Tara Frederickson, Eve Miller and John Baker, Amber Thieneman, Simon Furnish and Lethia Nall, Susan Hughes, Eric Mamajek at JPL, and the SITI Company.

Visit www.gregking.space to learn more about King's body of work in music, visual art, and film.

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released July 8, 2021

Christian Frederickson: viola
Simon Furnish: electronic sfx
Susan Hughes: spoken text
Gregory King: samples, keys, hand drum
Eve Miller: cello
Amber Thieneman: vocals, spoken text
Stephen Webber: spoken text

Gabriel King: thoughts on planets

Mixed and mastered at Invisible Creature, Los Angeles, CA

Artwork by Gregory King
All songs written by Gregory King
Copyright 2021

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Gregory King Los Angeles, California

Greg King is a multi-disciplinarian artist, musician and filmmaker. He is a former member of the bands Rachel's, The Young Scamels, and King G and the J Krew. He is, in fact, King G. He hails from Louisville, Kentucky, where "there's something in the water". ... more

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