No Writing by Zach Phillips

OSR Icy Clown Road ICR#02 compilation; originally only temporarily available winter solstice 2018 thru new year's day 2019

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-- tracks w/ Lilith Outcome = w/ Marlon Cherry (percussion), Ryan Power (bass), Derek Baron, Billy McShane & Kal Traver (flutes);
-- tracks w/ Martyr Group = w/ Stephe Cooper, Tom Csatari, Sam Lisabeth, Quentin Moore (guitars)

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Yuji Takahashi, from "the Life of the Composer," 1996:

To other people, his music is his own,
and he exists within his work.
Within him, there is music which has yet to be written.
He himself also comes close to believing this.
Without this belief, the life of the composer cannot be.
But the impulse to create cannot be deceived.
If other people hear his name in this sound,
what should he hear in it?
Even if we try to give his name to the song that sounds
within,
we cannot approach it through the work.
The skillfully placed net does not catch the music.
What remains as his own is only the act of creation.
The act of creation: why can we not say that it is not
the act of distancing oneself from music through music?
Unrequited thoughts compel the creation of the next work.
Other people call it maturation:
this trap, like a spider getting caught in a web of its
own making.
He himself probably comes close to believing this too.

This is love for music. This is the life of the composer.
Life gradually falls apart. The face and voice too are lost.
Memories also vanish, the name also vanishes.
The work cannot be eternal.
But even if no one is there, and nothing is left,
the dream of creation alone continues to dream,
floating like a seed.
This dream never knows consolation.

Tracklist

1.	Bright Line (demo for Fievel is Glauque 2018)	1:28

2.	Untitled Chart (w/ Graham Brooks 2011)	2:55

3.	Only You Pt. II (2010)	1:25

4.	I Die Today (first attempt for Olia Eichenbaum 2018)	2:08

5.	Life in the Halfshell (2009)	1:26

6.	Real Name James (w/ Lilith Outcome 2018)	2:57

7.	Musical Cervants (w/ Martyr Group 2015)	1:17

8.	Regular Girl (2009)	2:18

9.	Another Cabaret (Future State cover, demo for "Opera is Always On the Table" play 2018)	2:26

10.	Repetitions of Fascist Fashion (w/ Joey Agresta 2013)	0:51

11.	Basic Training (first version 2017)	2:42

12.	Sad Days and Nights Central Time (2009)	1:29

13.	How Father Feels On Sunday (2015)	1:57

14.	Ryvim w/ Ding (w/ Lilith Outcome 2018)	2:16

15.	Stegosaurus (2014)	1:19

16.	Minor Thieves (demo for Fievel is Glauque 2018)	2:19

17.	Jamie Kanzler Tames the Car (2010)	2:27

18.	Flying (2011)	0:32

19.	the Heavenly Place (Chiffons/Brute Force cover, demo for "Opera is Always On the Table" play 2018)	2:51

20.	Grey Spots (2009)	1:26

21.	Stoned Out of My Mind (Chi-Lites cover 2010)	2:12

22.	This Profit Might Be Revolution (w/ Martyr Group 2015)	2:27

23.	My Awakening Pt. II (2009)	1:50

24.	Everywhere (lyricized Jerry Bergonzi cover w/ Lilith Outcome 2018)	2:09

25.	Coca Cola is Food (2010)	3:42

26.	[appendix: Crooks Like Children (demo for Maher Shalal Hash Baz tour 2018)]	3:23

27.	[appendix: Wheel of the Law (Kendra Smith cover, demo for Saxifrage 2018)]	4:04

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released December 21, 2018

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