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Swamp Gas Mazurka - I wanted to write a mazurka, like a waltz but the accent is on the second beat, though I grew unclear as to whether this really is one. Chopin's mazurkas invoke a beautiful dancer tripping on the end of her dress. Instead of going too deep into the stylistic accuracy, I chose to let the dancer fall right into the luminous swamp I had made.

"Here Come Feelings!" - What's greater than having feelings? What's worse than having feelings? What is more unimpressive than having your feelings rest right at zero on the meter? What a great/terrible/middle-road time to be alive!

"Dead Loop of Olga Borcut" - Just as I was posting Museumgoer 19, I saw a video of Russian gymnast Olga Borcut performing her now-banned "dead loop" on the parallel bars and swore I'd make a loop befitting such a great video caption. On the day I wrote it, I returned to the gym for the first time in almost five months and can verify that the track works well while performing heroic and dangerous feats on exercise equipment.

“Eb & Lydia” - I played these simple chords on a loop in the studio until the little shimmering accompaniments came to me, like thoughts coming from a couple who’d been quietly having coffee over the same kitchen table for decades. The couple got named for E-flat Lydian, the key and mode of the tune.

“Adequate Wiggle Room” - The songs on this one felt like inadvertent pop songs crafted out of scientific research. Especially this one. Creating enough wiggle among a cycle of squeaky sqeaky chords to achieve a statistical grooviness.

“Gratitude Song” - A friend from college stopped by one of my gigs to give me her grandpa’s mint condition Hohner Marca Registrada Diatonic Button Accordion, still in the original box. I wrote this little simple tune, a drunken choir of gifted instruments, in humbling gratitude.

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released June 10, 2022

Alex V. Cook: Rhodes piano, organ, accordions, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, synthesizer, drum programming, trumpet, drums

Cover: Sukie in an intense sunbeam

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Museumgoer Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Unobtrusive music by Alex V. Cook

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