This whole album was inspired by a dream I had where everything in my life was out of order in time and space, and I kept hearing people saying “Outa / Orda” and seeing it written around me in that syntax over and over again.

It’s an experiment in trying to recreate the feeling of that dream, and it ends with “Days in Paper”, the only song on this album that directly references that dream; “Days in Paper” also quotes from what random people on the street were shouting at me and each other in the dream, in an uncanny combination of often incoherent (and not particularly good) French and English.

It’s a very metaphysical album, and a good example of the kind of high-energy, experimental acoustic sound I was known for in NYC in the mid-2010s and on the national and international touring circuits I was part of back then.

My sound has gone through many transformations since then, so this is an interesting thing to have around.

released March 15, 2016

Mallory Feuer took the photo on the album cover.

Jesse wrote the lyrics and music, played the instruments that weren’t clarinet, sang, mixed and produced the recordings, and designed the album cover.

The Elusive and Terrible Wendifer played clarinet on tracks 2, 3, 5, and 8.

Marcus Dean Kitchen engineered the recordings.

Made in Brooklyn, 2016.