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Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009

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Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I'd met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited me to come down with my guitar and fill some airtime on Baghdad By The Bay, his show on San Francisco's Pirate Cat Radio. A few unruly friends tagged along to egg me on, and in addition to going out live over the wires, the ensuing off-the-cuff, improvised hour of chaos was recorded for posterity on Pirate Cat's state-of-the-art low-quality direct-to-mp3 recorder. This is that chaos. It may or may not have passed for showmanship—you be the judge.

This is basically a nearly-finished live album, warts and all, and creeping up on 15 years after the fact it just awaits on a little bit of final production gloss and mastering for me to…

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गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra

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This one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it.

This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created the basic audio for this with the wonderful Bento analog synthesis emulator, then arranged and produced it in my hated enemy Logic Pro.

Unlike a lot of my music, I would actually present this as worth a listen, for anyone open to things this far from conventional musical ideas. Dim the lights, put your headphones on, and drift downstream through my inner space for 80 minutes. You may like it or you may not, I never would have expected to. I certainly wouldn't ever have thought that a 80 minute piece of music with only one note could be engaging all the way through, and especially not hold up to repeated listening. But I'm pleased to…

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Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05

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Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years of work and no end in sight, is at this point holding up the completion of 8 subsequent albums.

I wouldn't make a recommendation as to whether anybody should listen to this or not. This isn't actually intended for anyone to listen to, this one in particular I'm really just making to suit myself, writing it for its own sake. You're welcome to check it out, but that's as far in as I'll welcome you.

Some degree of patience may be of help to those who do care to venture into it, because it does something longer, quieter, and more deliberate than it may at first…

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Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture

Album Preview: Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture

Imagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score.