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The Mailman

by Troy Schafer

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Intro 00:28
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Prelude 03:34
Papa, Papa, on the first anniversary of your passing I set fire to our house, to ease the pain. But as I stood in the woods, watching it burn, I saw your face through the kitchen window, standing where you used to read and brush your hair. I knew it was you. I knew you were there and I ran to be with you. Now I'm forever looking out this window, watching for you to return from the woods.
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The Mailman 01:38
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Bing Bing the buzzard circles overhead sniffing, whiffing, wafting smelling out the dead for Bing Bing feasts on guts, butts, toes and heals and though it sounds quite gory there's more to her than meals look a little closer consider all the facts Bing Bing cleans the highways and doesn't charge us tax She's a connoisseur of odors a sommelier among birds to think of her as any less would be downright absurd and so when you see Bing Bing while on a summer's drive recite these words, right then and there and be grateful you're alive
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Intro rpt 00:27
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Interlude 00:26
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Interlude 2 00:35
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Outro ext 01:56

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The Mailman Video: youtu.be/eREpRh1KTp4

Bing Bing the Buzzard Video: youtu.be/eYh3QWfDDR4

Prelude Video: youtu.be/yVNlc9y02Kc

The Mailman, as with all of Schafer's solo work is as described by David Perron of Free Form Freakout a "beguiling sonic puzzle". On side A, Schafer's sound and text tell us a dramatic story across a series of short compositions while the B side offers re-interpretations from artists "Near and dear" between captivating interludes. An exciting and emotional recording worth many, many listens.

Troy Schafer is a Wisconsinite composer, performer and recording artist whose work is primarily engaged with violin, voice and displaced sounds. He is recognized for his modern classical music as well as collaborations with Kinit Her, Wreathes, Burial Hex, Wormsblood, Rain Drinkers, Devotion, Spiral Joy Band and the Chagas Schafer duo. He studied orchestra education at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and recently completed a Master's Degree in Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Schafer describes his current solo works as “A distant echo of anti-cerebral ballad casting, psychic and free association, sonic rhetoric becoming notion of future past, organic subjectivities through pneumatic escape, vengeance tympanum and continuity.”

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released November 11, 2018

original sound and text by Troy Schafer
narrated by Natalia Nicholson
KA Baird performed foley piano for track 2 - Prelude
mastered by: Nathaniel Ritter at EverSo Audio

cassette released by (1.8)sec.records on March 27, 2018:
1pt8.bandcamp.com/album/the-mailman

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Troy Schafer Wisconsin

Electro-acoustic and neoclassical explorations from Northern Wisconsin. Founding member, primary instrumentalist, and vocalist for Kinit Her, Rain Drinkers and Wyrding - he lends his songwriting, engineering, production, and performance to a multitude of other projects including Pod Cast, Burial Hex, Spiral Joy Band, The World On Higher Downs, and Wormsblood. ... more

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