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BipTunia
Run Time: 71 Minutes
Street Date: October 4, 2024. LISTEN:
Primordial Soup is Good Food by BipTunia
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All instruments, songs, production, and mastering by Michael W. Dean.
TRACK LIST:
1. Fanfare for the Globalist Reeducation Camps
2. Expectations Are Appointments with Resentments
3. Primordial Soup is Good Food
4. The Age of Trilobites
5. Prunella Modularis III
Only track 4 is microtonal. (17 TET)
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Run Time: 74 Minutes
Street Date: August 30, 2024
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All instruments, songs, production, and mastering by Michael W. Dean.
None of this album is microtonal.
The first song is influenced by Helios Creed and is a bit of a tribute to his music.
The title “She Recoiled Diesel Chore Chiseled Roe” is an anagram for “Helios Creed Helios Creed Helios Creed.”
TRACK LIST:
1. She Recoiled Diesel Chore Chiseled Roe
2. Agnostic is the Most Scientific Position on Religion
3. Glassy Greasy Granular Onion Rings with the Vicar
4. So Many Fucking Stars, How Can We Possibly Be Alone?
5. Get into the Resurrection Canon
6. I Dig Your Moonly Ways
7. Leave your Cages Behind
FUN FACT: “So Many Fucking Stars, How Can We Possibly Be Alone?” is the first time in 92 albums that BipTunia has had cussin’….and it’s in both the title and lyrics.
Usually this stuff is instrumental, and when words, radio friendly. Just for fucking fun.)
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RUN TIME: 63 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: July 23, 2024
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All instruments, songs, production, and mastering by Michael W. Dean.
…Except Cave chanting on Release the Artisanal Tardigrades by Sir Michael Higgins and a bipedal ape with a bad hip. And…
The Shoulder Thing That Goes Up has a bit of talking from a cool guy and a horrible woman. She used to have power, but now is back to yelling at strangers on the street, probably.
TRACK LIST:
1. Dord Density of Solid Metallic Hydrogen
2. Xenochrony My Xenochronous Xenochrony, All Night Long
3. The Shoulder Thing That Goes Up
4. Pentatonic Phrygian Open-Eye Visuals
5. Therac-25 Malfunction 54 in Eagle 53
6. Release the Artisanal Tardigrades
7. 56,000 Distant Suns Photographed from Our Farm Paddock
These songs are microtonal:
- Therac-25 Malfunction 54 in Eagle 53 (John O’Sullivan, Eagle 53 temperament)
- Pentatonic Phrygian Open-Eye Visuals (phryg penta: Schlesinger’s Phrygian Harmonia in the pentachromatic genus)
The rest are in standard 12-TET. However…..These are Xenochronous (Zappa’s technique of using intact parts from other songs in new songs):
- Dord Density of Solid Metallic Hydrogen
- Xenochrony My Xenochronous Xenochrony All Night Long
- 56,000 Distant Suns Photographed from Our Farm Paddock
I used parts from the BipTunia songs But you don’t look Sick, Marc Sporkolova, and I’m a Lone, Broke Cowpoke From Biptunia’s 27th album, and the song A Prominent Albedo Feature on Mars from BipTunia’s albums 53-54. I combined different synth lines and bass lines from different songs, but also wrote new parts around and on top of them.
ABOUT THE ALBUM COVER
Cover is a photo by Michael W. Dean of the Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan, and a bunch of distant tiny (to us) galaxies. More info and tech specs here.
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Rough cut of song from upcoming BipTunia album 91, “Skipping Off the Atmosphere.”
Cave chanting by Sir Michael Higgins and a bipedal ape with a bad hip. Manipulated by MWD.
Higgy, as those of us who new and loved him called him, has passed, sadly. So this song can serve as a happy requiem for him, even though I never met him.
So, this is a sort of happy Gregorian chant requiem for a dead friend of a friend.
All other music and production, Michael W. Dean.
“Tardigrades” in the title because they can be found in caves, among other wet places.
I recently bought some and took some microscope video of them, then released them into the stream in back of our farm. They are helpful, not harmful. More microscope video I shot of one here.
They were 20 dollars for only a few, so I figure they must be Artisanal Tardigrades. lol.
Chill Beats to Relax and Pet Cats to by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 73 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: Feb 5, 2024
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All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean. Cover is our two kitten siblings, Bort and Bella, 2 years ago when we first got them from the shelter.
TRACK LIST:
1. Voices in the Forest at Night
2. Vanquished Vanished Vintage Vantage
3. Flerfs All Over the Globe
4. Cat Singing About a Macedonian Bagpipe
5. Drunken Virtuoso
6. Chill Beats to Relax and Breed Cats to
7. Acid in 1952
MICROTONAL TUNINGS: Cat Singing About a Macedonian Bagpipe (Partch 41 and Macedonian Bagpipe, + 12 TET)
All songs are instrumental except songs 1 and 4. Both have the same robo-lyrics. The lyrics are:
The way the cats are good,
we like cats
cats are nifty.
Wonder cats are good,
cats to pet all day.
The wonder of cats cannot be paralleled.
The disco cats have returned.
We will dance to the wonder of the cats!
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Brain of Patient Treated With Methylene Blue by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 88 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: April 7, 2024
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TRACK LIST:
1. Shriven Brain Shavings
2. Brain of Patient Treated with Methylene Blue
3. Cretaceous Soundtrack Leaving Up to KT Extinction
4. Wedding Invitation from the Robots
All songs on this release are instrumental. None are microtonal.
ABOUT THE ALBUM COVER
“Gross Pathology of Normal Brain vs Brain of Patient Treated With Methylene Blue Before Death”, medical photo by Mikael Häggström, M.D. Image is public domain. Is half of this image on Wikipedia (whole image has whole brain, not just slices).
This photo is the album cover because it speaks to me. I saw it and was fascinated by it.
I didn’t use it for the gross-out factor, I don’t find it gross. I don’t like it when bands use gross or shocking imagery. I love the Butthole Surfers but didn’t like when I saw them live and they were showing graphic images of eyeball surgery on a big screen behind them. That seemed like shock for its own sake.
This blue brain and sliced blue brain medical photo isn’t shocking to me. It just speaks to me of what is the mind vs what is the brain, and what are we? Are we this little 3-pound universe that doesn’t look much different than our intestines, but is a powerful supercomputer made from the result of digesting food.
Is that us?
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Microtonal Loud Rock Synth Pop Ambient Symphonic Delight by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 73 Minutes.
RELEASE DATE: Dec 20, 2023
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All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean.
Cover art includes some astrophotography I did of the Pleiades / Messier 45.
MICROTONAL TUNINGS:
Low-Speed Stampede (19 TET)
Meridian Flip Out (mohajira-to-slendro. From Mohajira to Aeolian and Slendros)
Liminal Space Ape with Baritone Sax (fortuna a2…Clem Fortuna, Arabic mode of 24-TET)
Sheep Chalk Scarlet Letter (chargah pentachord 7 limit,
elfkeenanismic7 aka Keenanismic tempered [8/7, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 8/5, 7/4,
2] = cross_7, 284et tuning)
Octopus Motor is Missing (Lydian Diatonic)
Photographing the Dust on the Fabric of the Universe (ED2-30 aka 30 EDO)
I’ll Be Your Guide Star (12 TET, not microtonal)
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Country Trailer Love Song by Michael W. Dean and Greg Dale
CREDITS:
Michael W. Dean: Concept, words and music.
Lead vocal on “trailer” part, harmony vocal on first part. Piano, electric piano, organ, bass guitar, drums, Taurus bass, incidental electric guitar on “Iggy Pop” chord and 3 harmony notes at very end. Chimes (just 4 places in song.)
Michael did recording / engineering on Michael’s parts, plus final mixing and mastering.
Greg Dale: Words and Music.
Electric and acoustic guitars. Lead vocal on first part, harmony vocal on “trailer” part.
Greg did recording / engineering on Greg’s parts.
Microtonal Music for MRIs by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 87 Minutes.
RELEASE DATE: Oct 26, 2023
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All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean. Cover art is some astrophotography I did of the Crescent Nebula. I think it looks like a brain.
–Microtonal Tunings: Mohajira-to-slendro.
–5 TET.
(plus a little standard 12TET).
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RUN TIME: 94 Minutes.
RELEASE DATE: May 12, 2023
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Made with just one free VST synths made by the author, FreakBone 9000, with no other instruments except drum programs.
Album is one long microtonal / micronal / xenharmonic song.
Entire album is only in this microtonal tuning: Zesster C. It’s a harmonic six-star, group C on Eb, tuning by Adriaan Fokker.
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RUN TIME: 73 Minutes.
RELEASE DATE: May 3, 2023
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Made with two free VST synths made by the author, FreakBone 9000, and Microtone 5000, with no other instruments except drum programs.
TRACK LIST:
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- Zesster C and Macedonian Bagpipe Overture
- DrumBox 220BPM 15-27 Gram-and-17TET
- The Werckmeister 3 in Concert
- FreakBone-9000 Demo 1
- 2 TET Tritones All the Way Down
- Zesty FreakBone Demo 2
- 11 ED3 Jump for Jump
- 4 EDO 20 EDO 960BMP Jaunty
- Eagle53 Phryg Penta Data Transmission
- Zesty FreakBone Improv in Six Microtonal Tunings
All songs are microtonal / micronal / xenharmonic
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RUN TIME: 94 minutes
RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2023
All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean. The album cover photo of Pleiades was taken by Michael.
Other than drums and piano, all instruments were made by Michael W. Dean. You can download them free. They are:
MICROTONE 5000, v0.91 (synth VST)
Simple Microtonal Sampler, v1.6 (sampler VST)
Plus my new effect was used a lot: ORION RING MODULATOR,
TRACK LIST:
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- 7 TET Station ID
- 31 TET Meantone[19] 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 Hut Hut
- 7 TET Driven to Refusal
- 12-17 Over 12 TET Equals
- 12 TET is a Horrorshow
- 12 TET Ring Mod Drone
- Indian Raga Bageshri Two-Step
- Orwell 22 Music for Machine
- Let’s Go to the 12 TET Ring Mod Dance
- 53 Eagles in Eagle 53
- The 10 TET Cotillion
- The High Galactic Circus in 15 TET Blackwood[10] 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1
- 4 EDphi Boogie on Orion’s Ring Mod Moons
- 5 TET Evening TV Sign Off on Proxima Centauri c
- Simmering and Shimmering in the Integrated Flux Nebula
- 5 TET Jam Thing
- Sumatra Jam Thing
- JI7 Jam Thing
- 7 TET Jam Thing
- Ancient Greek Archytas Diatonic Jam Thing
- 31 TET Jam Thing
- 5 TET Sine Wave Hearing Test Blues
All songs are microtonal except 5, 6, 9, and 15
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I had two ideas for the album title, I asked some friends, was split near 50/50 down the middle. So I let Bard AI be the tie breaker:
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RUN TIME: 60 minutes
RELEASE DATE: March 19, 2023
All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean.
TRACK LIST:
- Slow Blink
- Ancient Galaxy Mega Merger
- Serenity Tranquility and Peace
- Two States at Once
- Human-Cat Mind Meld
- Hamburgers for the Apocalypse
Song 4 is microtonal, in 10 TET.
Explanation of the title:
Ring modulator audio example
I used that on every song. Never used one before. Got the cover art here, is by Frik of Indonesia. I replaced butterfly the cat was grabbing with circuit schematic (of a ring modulator):
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Synthetic Astro Cats by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 96 minutes
RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2023
All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean.
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TRACK LIST:
1. I’m So Glad I Finally Got Some Sleep
2. Bortle 1 in My Colon
3. Colonoscopy Propofol Dreamscape
4. Dynamic Distortion Correction for Endoscopy
5. Live from the Elephant’s Foot
6. Dymaxion Bass Lines
7. Several Haunted Goats
8. Summer Home on Titan
9. Giving The Universe a Colonoscopy
10. Winterized Sigma Clipping
11. Acme Skunk Trebuchet
12. Deconvolution
13. Water Leak in the Procedure Room
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303 #dance #prog #edm #synthesizer #insomnia
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Fine cut of first song on upcoming album in progress. Did this in one sitting tonight. Good ole 35-chord rock.
RUN TIME: 71 minutes
RELEASE DATE: December 1, 2022
All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover photo: Michael W. Dean.
Music is instrumental except “Pinky the Wonder Cat”
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Album cover photo of Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula, (Messier 42 and Sh2-279) by Michael W. Dean (BipTunia / Intergalactic Prairie Studio). Tech specs:
Total integration (combined exposure) 5 hours, 9 minutes. 309 Lights (separate exposures). 60 second exp each at 800 ISO. 73 Darks. 16 Flats. 26 Dark Flats. Bortle 3. (backyard Oregon farm.) Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop. Image cropped, full image here.
RedCat on Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro with Zwo mini guide cam and scope via PhD2. Cam: stock DSLR…Canon 90D. Polar align via SharpCap.
Info on Perseus Double Cluster:
“NGC 869 has a mass of 4,700 solar masses and NGC 884 weighs in at 3,700 solar masses; both clusters are surrounded with a very extensive halo of stars, with a total mass for the complex of at least 20,000 solar masses. They form the core of the Perseus OB1 association of young hot stars. Based on their individual stars, the clusters are relatively young, both 14 million years old. In comparison, the Pleiades have an estimated age ranging from 75 million years to 150 million years.”
- Cats Dig Me
- Last Common Ancestor
- Injecting Data Into My Brain
- Early European Modern Humans
- Pinky the Wonder Cat
- Encrypted Emission
- Neanderthal Bone Flute Played in a Cave
- Secret Hidden Hobby
- Hearing Voices in the Hall
- Guitar Bass Drums Synth and Piano
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Snorting the Stars by BipTunia RUN TIME: 93 minutes RELEASE DATE: Sept 10, 2022 All instruments, songs, and production: Michael W. Dean. Some voice by the late, great, Kip Cameron on songs 2, 6, and 9. Buy or listen free on BandCamp Album cover photo...Continue Reading... “SNORTING THE STARS” – Albums 74 and 75 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
RUN TIME: 106 minutes RELEASE DATE: Sept 2, 2022 This album is microtonal / xenharmonic, is all 10-TET and 20-TET All instruments, songs, and production: Michael W. Dean Buy or listen free on BandCamp Listen on Spotify (coming soon) FLAC lossless torrent Album cover photo...Continue Reading... “BLUES FOR ANDROMEDA” – Albums 72 and 73 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
Even Drones Can Fly Away by BipTunia RUN TIME: 186 Minutes RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2022 All instruments, songs, and production: Michael W. Dean Buy or listen free on BandCamp Listen on Spotify (coming soon) FLAC lossless torrent (coming soon) Album cover photo by Michael...Continue Reading... “Even Drones Can Fly Away” – Albums 69, 70, and 71 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
Drone Home Alone – 3 Hours of Glorious Audio Entheogens by BipTunia RUN TIME: 190 Minutes RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2022 All instruments, songs, and production: Michael W. Dean Buy or listen on BandCamp Listen on Spotify (coming soon) FLAC lossless torrent (coming soon) The...Continue Reading... “Drone Home Alone – 3 Hours of Glorious Audio Entheogens” Albums 66, 67, and 68 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
Long Drones Bending Slow Sometimes with a Beat by BipTunia RUN TIME: 96 minutes. RELEASE DATE: May 3, 2022 All instruments, songs, and production: Michael W. Dean Listen on Spotify (coming soon) BandCamp FLAC lossless torrent The album it one long song, divided up into...Continue Reading... “Long Drones Bending Slow Sometimes with a Beat”, album 64 and 65 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
Drum Machines Have No Baggage by BipTunia RUN TIME: 92 minutes. RELEASE DATE: May 2, 2022 Listen on SPOTIFY (coming soon) BandCamp FLAC lossless torrent (coming soon) Get pastable BipTunia street art, PDF download 1. The Battle in the Innermoist Chamber of the Drum Machine...Continue Reading... “Drum Machines Have No Baggage”, album 63 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
- Collect Call from the Interzone 2. Meowness be a Lady Tonight 3. Newness Overwriting the Old 4. The Last Pumpkin Outta Alpha Centauri 5. Unnamed Arpology 6. Your Odyssey 7. A Sample of Things to Come 8. Bass on Base on Three...Continue Reading... “BARELY MUSIC”, album 62 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
RUN TIME: 65 minutes. RELEASE DATE: Sept 25, 2021 TRACK LIST: 1. Wyoming Calamari Bike 2. Inner Mission 3. The Owl and His Imaginary Friend All instruments: Michael W. Dean. More info here.
TRACK LIST: 1. Overture in Beast Minor 2. Brain Movie 668 3. Blowing the Dust out of Entrenched Systems 4. Government Probe 5. Brain Movies in 11 EDphi 6. Truth Table on a 1975 Logic Gate 7. Rewinding Toward a Singularity 8. A Party with...Continue Reading...
New guitar-tastic song called “Truth Table on the 1975 Logic Gate” from the upcoming 60th BipTunia album, Music for Sewers. It’s sort of inspired by “21st Century Schizoid Man” by King Crimson, and partially inspired by “Tales of the Topographic Ocean” by Yes. But it’s...Continue Reading... New BipTunia prog hard rock song (w/ Joe Guitarski)
(playlist) (coming today) “Y’ALL FORGOT TO PAY THE REALITY BILL” – The 57th, 58th, and 59th albums by BipTunia. Run time: 1 hour + 59 minutes. Release Date: April 16, 2021 All compositions, instruments, engineering, mastering, and album cover by Michael W. Dean. Thank you...Continue Reading... “Y’ALL FORGOT TO PAY THE REALITY BILL” – The 57th, 58th, and 59th albums by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
SONG PLAYER: 1. Critters Resounding 2. Machine Elves Stole Your Lunch Money 3. Room 668 4. How to Compound Your Eye 5. The Fish Speaks 6. That Groovy Retro Cold War Beat 7. Mosin Nougat 8. Variable Software Frequencies 9. A Song to Whistle While...Continue Reading... “MACHINE ELVES STOLE YOUR LUNCH MONEY” – The 55th and 56th albums by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
Long-time hardcore Bomb fan Jordan Wesley asks Michael Dean from Bomb a bunch of questions. This is the first half. Second half comes out later this week. And the album remastered by Jack Endino comes out in a day or two. Above pic of Michael...Continue Reading... Part 1 of 2 of Jan 2021 interview with Michael Dean about his old band Bomb, and the remastered version of 1988’s “Hits of Acid” album coming out this week.
“LOUDER THAN LIMINAL” – The 53rd and 54th albums by BipTunia. Run time: 82 minutes. Release Date: December 30, 2020 All compositions, instruments, engineering, mastering, and album cover by Michael W. Dean The cat is fine. He’s yawning. 1. Frequency Band Circumstellar Disk-Shaped Worms 2....Continue Reading... “LOUDER THAN LIMINAL” – The 53rd and 54th album by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE.
Release date: Dec 11, 2020
Run time: 1 hour, 59 minutes.
All instruments Michael W. Dean.
TRACK LIST:
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Achin’ for an Arpen
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All I Want for Christmas is More Free VSTs
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Chicks Dig Me
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Waking Up on the Steps of Tomorrow
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Got my Brain Flapps a Flappin’
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Interstellar Love Song
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I Haz a Desk Beast
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Purple Leper Eater
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Remove Isolation
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Talking to Helios Back Stage at Will Shatter’s Wake at the On Broadway
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That Dream Where You Walk Away From School a Week before Graduation
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Toggle Show Parameters
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Today Also
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Tounge My Drum
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A Pocket Full of Iridium
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Arpy Baby Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Weasel War Dance
Release date: November 26, 2020
Run time: 112 minutes.
All instruments Michael W. Dean.
This is the 49th and 50th album by BipTunia. It is all instrumental.
Notes and info PDF.(coming soon)
Track list:
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Life at the South Pole
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He Works at the Business Factory
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Panic at 16th and Mission
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Sing the Winter Down
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Through the Terrascope
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Huygens on Titan
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Time Best Spent
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Unexplained Brush-Off
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Vermont Woods 1979
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What the Cat Sees that We Don’t
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One for the Barn Cats
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Grab Any Unused Chautauqua Practice Studio Piano
No songs on this are microtonal.
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