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why

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previous release (inri009):
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/i-did-your-mom-2

here's the biting, satirical, misanthropic anarchist jessica that you know and love! finally...

this is the first thing that shows up that's explicitly political in more than a social sense. the lyrics are clear, obvious and mixed very much to the front. here's the story on that: i'm emulating a beat-box situation. i'm a politician, tongue-in-cheek, with a sound system in the back. the paper crumpling sound in the middle is meant to represent me spoiling a ballot.

in hindsight, i suppose that the idea that i'm trying to get across is largely gramscian. in the language of modern memes, the track simply tells us to keep calm and vote for the status quo. but, you'll note that i'm focusing a lot on the deficit of discourse. this could be interpreted a few ways. you could think about how the function of advertising is to suppress thought, for example. however, what i was thinking at the time intersects most cleanly with the idea of the state functioning as the modern church. in this system, which does not only exist on the right, the politician is also a priest and enforces the same role of thought suppression that the church did in the middle ages. the politician herds the sheep into the polls to uphold the status quo; democracy consequently leads to stasis, and prevents any kind of real change. what i had actually read at this age was not gramsci or chomsky but orwell. yet, what's actually driving me is something closer to what we would today associate with dawkins - largely through asimov.

you'll note that i'm not particularly hopeful about the process, either - i don't have a lot of faith in humans to transcend this process of control. it's a deep form of misanthropy, with little way out. yet, my idea of human nature is that we are very malleable, not that we are fixed in perpetual assholery. even at this age, i realize that we are not doomed....

....we're just very poorly equipped to get our shit together.

initially written and recorded in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reclaimed july 12, 2015. vocals added july 15, 2015. sequenced, released and finalized on july 22, 2016. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of this track appears on my second record, inriched (inri021): jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched

this recording is a part of the following collections:
1) inriℵ0: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/flac-dvd-disc-volume-1
2) inriℵ2: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched-box-set
3) inriℵ4: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/mp3-dvd-disc-volume-1
4) inriℵ6: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1
5) inriℵ17: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/flac-bd-disc-volume-1

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1996, 1998, 2013, 2015, 2016).

there are three download-only tracks:
8) why (2013 remaster of 1996 demo mix)
9) why (full 1998 mix)
10) end sequence of side A of the 1996 demo tape

next release (inri011):
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/nope-2

credits

released April 19, 1998

j - electric guitars, floor effects (zoom 1010, mxr phase 90), digital remastering effects (guitar rig bass amp simulators, izotope compression), electric bass guitar, vocals, drum programming (ry30), acoustic drum kit, tapes, found sound (paper crumpling), pick scrapes, noise generators, synthesizers (jx-8p), cool edit synthesis, sampling, digital wave editing, digital effects processing (cool edit fx), loops, tascam portastudio, cool edit pro, cubase sx 3, production

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jessica murray Windsor, Ontario

this is the archive for the artist formerly known as jason parent and now known as jessica murray.

the music here has shifted dramatically over many years, from roots in punk/grunge through to experimental synth pop and into a type of kitchen sink post-rock with heavy electronics. the only consistency throughout is a lack of consistency, guitars and an impressionist aesthetic. "blender rock".
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