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New Oddities

by Shahab Zargari

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    Come along on a strange adventure through space and time through the eyes and ears of a human.

    "Keep your ears tuned for a wide and often surprising variety of sounds that manages to couple human emotion with synthetic rhythms for a realm of new oddities." - Scene Point Blank

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    Shahab Zargari has been sampling and remixing music since the start of his band Kill the Scientist in 1989 when he was still pretty young. The album New Oddities, technically his debut solo album as all past releases were done with band names and monikers, builds upon his years of experience with digital and analog technology. Utilizing artificial intelligence-created music stems, this album looks to the future of the world and humanity and music production, but it also simultaneously looks to the past by utilizing human touches, poems from the 1800s, punk song lyrics from the 80s, 90s choirs newscast samples, and even sonification sounds from the Black Hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster (sounds are from billions of years ago)! The song styles vary from electronic to R&B to digital pop and punk rock, but the futuristic world-building makes it all fit together somehow. “The album uses artificial intelligence as a backing band or studio band. They came in. I tell them what I want, they “jam” and we go back and forth until the foundation of a song materializes,” says Shahab of New Oddities, “we use those on the spot jams as the bare-bones start of a song and then regular old humans put layers upon layers of vocals, samples, instrumentation on top to create a sci-fi trip through the cosmos. Think KLF’s Chill Out, but in outer space instead of the American Southwest.
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Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do I am he and she is she but you're the only you No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see It's up to you to change your life and my life's up to me The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take If you don't like the life you live, change it now it's yours Nothing has effects if you don't recognize the cause If the programme's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set It's only you that can decide what life you're gonna get If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple And you'll never change the system by bombing number ten Systems just aren't made of bricks they're mostly made of people You may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again If you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game If you don't want to be a number, don't give them your name If you don't want to be caught out, refuse to hear their question Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection They'll try to make you play their game, refuse to show your face If you don't want to be beaten down, refuse to join their race Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do I am he and she is she but you're they only you
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Just because you said you’ve had enough (yeah yeah), Don’t say that you’ll never live it up. Oh, hey! You’re looking for protection, Naturally, ‘cuz you’ve been taken around. You want someone to hold your place. You want a true love. Love is not your invention. It’s not so far beyond your reach. Love is its’ own dimension. C’mon, I’ll take you there. The more we have the less we seem to gain. We’re chasing our own dreams away. Love has no bad intention. We’re living off the counterfeit now. We’re growing colder every day. We need a new wave. Love’s not a new invention And it’s not just your perception. Love is its’ own dimension. C’mon, I’ll take you there. I’ll take you there. I’ll take you there.
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released January 16, 2023

Cover art by Jamie Hayles - Color by Shahab Zargari

Track 1 features NASA sonification sounds from the Black Hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster

Track 2 features Mo Milan and words by Neil Gaiman speaking on mythology

Track 3 features a sample of a 1990s middle school choirs recording archive of "Kalinka" a Russian folk song written in 1860 by the composer and folklorist Ivan Larionov

Track 4 features lyrics by CRASS

Track 5 features Micah Haji-Sheikh

Track 6 lyrics are included in the album download as a Bandcamp exclusive

Track 7 contains a poem by John Henry Mackay

Track 8 features Mo Milan, as well as the first computer-based phonemic synthesis-by-rule program, John Kelly and Louis Gerstman, 1961 as well as VODER, Homer Dudley, 1939. Song also features an excerpt from a 1977 Anne Waldman's lecture on female writers.

Track 9 features audio from FMA Overlords - Net Neutrality Sample Pack

Track 10 features a sample of a default alert sound in Windows10 and the track Left In A Deep Trance By You by One Man Symphony.

Track 11 features samples of a 1990s middle school choirs recording archives of Beethoven, Mozart and traditional tunes as well as archival American news audio

Tracks 2-9 feature samples and arrangements using AI generated sounds from Soundraw.io

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