Amen Dunes - Death JokesWith Death Jokes, for the first time since the project's incarnation in 2006, the spiritual reflections and meditations of Amen Dunes are turned away from himself, and out sharply towards the world. The album is also a drastic turn musically and thematically, rooted in the electronic music of raves and of rap music he grew up with but never imagined himself able to make, playing like a scathing electronic essay on Americas culture of violence,

was recorded in late 1981 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and originally released on composer Glenn Branca’s Neutral label

I needed to remember my heart is plausible

and he was the go-to musician for so many key artists including Graham Collier

The music takes it's cues from influences as broad-ranging as Lee 'Scratch' Perry (for his 'singularity and drive'

more so than before

Joe Cocker)

and melodic hooks

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you can see flashes of other airy artists—they trade in compositional ruffles that may feel familiar to followers of Gigi Masin or any number of releases on Valley of the Sun—but there's this deep

or in magical synth atmosphere by Takahashi

34 years later he even set out to right the wrong

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