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Snails are Bailtrax

by BOOKSONTAPE

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1.
Echolocation 02:22
2.
Guantanamo Bay 03:08
3.
Love on a Tiny Satellite 03:54
4.
Unconditional Love 03:49
5.
Mother's Day 03:28
6.
Manatee County, FL 03:56
7.
Paleospheniscus Patagonicus 02:11
8.
A Snowclone is a Terrible Thing (to Waste) 04:12
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Zymurgy 03:19
10.
The Coldblooded Rat of Somalia 03:03
11.
A Guide to your Collective Nouns 06:04

about

Before finding wide recognition as the sensational group Lake Street Dive, 3/4 of that band and the little-known singer Vilray recorded the educational music of a reclusive man named Bailtrax. These recordings are available now for the first time.

BOOKSONTAPE or the Bailtrax Oral-Omnibus Keepers Society of Neo-Troubadours As Progressive Educators is a high-octane traveling classroom covering the breadth of all human existence and history in song. Its guiding light is the mysterious poet-professor Dr. Sandy Bailtrax who uses Wikipedia's 'random search' function to select subject matter for exploration by the band. In the words of Dr. Bailtrax himself: "My teachings, my poetry are the snails on the lettuce of the universe. They feed on reality and their by-product is more reality, digested and reduced to its component elements. I have come to realize that, after all, snails truly are Bailtrax. This work proves that if nothing else."

credits

released January 1, 2007

Vilray on lead vocals (except Mother's Day), guitar, ukulele, guitarrón, synthesizers, and backing vocals

Michael 'McDuck' Olson on trumpet, euphonium, guitar, ukulele, slide whistle, human whistle, toy piano, synthesizers, and sock mouth

Michael Calabrese on lead vocals (Mother's Day), drums, guitar, ukulele, banjo, electric bass, chair, sonar pings and backing vocals

Bridget Kearney on stand-up bass

all tracks written, arranged, engineered, produced and mixed (such as they were) by Dr. Sandy Bailtrax in his Brooklyn home.

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