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Nameless

by Randall Kirk Jones

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Nameless i 07:42
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Nameless ii 05:28
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Nameless iii 05:11
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Nameless iv 10:44
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Nameless v 06:34
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Nameless 35:40
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about

“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”
― Ernest Hemingway

I've spent countless hours obsessively trying to bend and arrange words into different meanings, attempting to communicate sensation, ideas, and emotion with words. After enough time doing that you find that there are things that can only be expressed outside of language, and the attempt to articulate experiences and emotions with words so often makes them feel like cheap counterfeits of the real thing (this is not a new idea).

Language is so often a barrier that steps on the toes of experience. "Nameless" is my attempt to not step on those toes so hard. It's an attempt to make something that exists outside of language. There are no lyrics, there are no song titles, and the album itself has no name. This may seem like some obnoxious modern art to leave everything untitled, but the absence of all these things leaves just the experience. This gives it the space to be a passive listening experience. One that can play softly as you fall asleep, get some work done, or just sit on a nice morning.

I didn't tell anyone I was making "Nameless".
I even said I wouldn't write anything about it, but my need to communicate what I'm trying to do is apparently an impulse I can't get rid of, so let me summarize.

It is an autobiography told through sound. Parts of me exist on this record in ways that are entirely impossible to communicate through language. If someone were to ask me who I am, rather than say my name, I would hope a better answer would be to show them all these records I've made, and Nameless is an essential piece of my identity.

At this point my philosophical hippie psychobabble is already beginning to bubble to the surface and you see my point about language's ability to make a real dumpster fire of things. So all to say now is thank you for listening, I really do hope you enjoy this and that life finds you well.

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released September 26, 2017

Brian Haywood - Saxophone
Aaron Muller - Violin
Alejandro Rivera - Flute
Randall Kirk Jones - All else. I don't even know everything that's in here.

Began briefly in June 2016, abandoned, and begun again May - September 2017

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