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Ceremony

from Thank Your Demons by Caural

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With sounds sourced primarily from discarded CDs found while working on a feature film set, Ceremony was composed in a brutal upstate New York winter - Caural's first in years after moving back east. Sweeping 90s rave chord progressions compliment lyrics emerging at random from heavily processed R&B vocals, all atop uptempo, drunken percussion and 60s soul handclaps. The half-tempo conclusion of the song came to Mastoon hiking in Kaaterskill Falls, looking at the once rushing water now frozen in bleached icicles and caverns of snowfall.

By March of 2020, locations were set, dancers were cast, and a crew was hired to shoot a music video for the song, ironically named "Ghosted". The pandemic had other plans for the production, so it wasn't until July of 2022 that Caural worked with his director wife Alex Mastoon and cinematographer Jaan Kristjan Utno to shoot a brand new piece with NYC based dancers on location in Rockaway Beach.

The resulting material became Us In Octaves: a hypercolor summer nightmare set to Ceremony and a second composition named at a celebration of the late avant garde jazz trumpeter Jaimie Branch: Give Them All Their Flowers Now.

Watch the official video for Ceremony here: youtu.be/vuhNMysQTxY

lyrics

Don't let fear below
Don't let fear

We lie below

Don't let fear below
Don't let me die alone
Die alone

We lie below
Lie below

Die alone
Lie below me
We lie alone
Me alone

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from Thank Your Demons, track released July 7, 2023
Written & produced by Caural (Zachary Mastoon, BMI)
Published by He Heard Himself Say, BMI

Design by Someoddpilot: www.someoddpilot.com

Art Direction by Zachary Mastoon, Jon Aguayo & Abigail Lipp.
Photography by Ellie Hall.

Mastered by Shawn Hatfield: www.audibleoddities.com

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Recording his first music on a Casio beginning at six, Caural (born Zachary Mastoon) went on to play in multiple bands before studying jazz improvisation with avant-garde giant Anthony Braxton, Javanese Gamelan aboard Semester At Sea, and experimental music at NYU. He began fusing his disparate influences together quite literally in 1999 with what became his signature instrument: a Yamaha SU700. ... more

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