These are all things I wrote and recorded between the ages of 15 and 18, mostly in my parents’ apartment in Brooklyn. There are a lot of poems and spoken pieces on this one, and a few things that are basically instrumentals.

As with my 2013 album More Than The Nightmare Station, there is a lot to do with my experiences of psychiatric abuse and trauma, and a general sense of despair, but there are also some relatively hopeful things that seemed to come out of nowhere (or everywhere), like “The Interdimensional Diplomat”.

“Facebook Poem With Me In It” was recorded live at Eugene Lang College in NYC, and is an entirely true story that has almost nothing to do with anything else on the album.

“Mount Guardian Return” and “Message from a Sad World” were recorded in Mount Guardian, NY, originally as part of a planned follow-up to an experimental CD I made called Mount Guardian that very few people still have copies from the original pressing of.

Mount Guardian was reissued as a digital album in 2012, and is now considered the 2nd “official” Cannonball Statman album, despite it having been released under the pseudonym Corporate Lullaby that’s associated with my experimental/noise/ambient music (and over a dozen “unofficial” albums of mine having been released on CD and cassette in the New York underground prior to its recording!)

The album cover is a photo I took in Maine near an abandoned trailer park in the Summer of 2008. It also appears in the Infinity (and other inventions) series.

released January 3, 2013

All music and words by Jesse “Cannonball” Statman, except for the words for track 9, which were written by Beth Heuer.

Evolution of Track 9: “Walk After the Snow”