Liquid by Arctic Skies

These songs were written on an old purple couch and recorded directly from my amp to a four track in the winter of 2013.

Notes on the title liquids:
Coconut Water - The clear liquid inside young coconuts. It has a high potassium and mineral content.

Hot-Melt - Used in a hot glue gun. Commonly supplied in solid cylindrical sticks.

Rubber Cement - Drying adhesive. Made from elastic polymers mixed in a solvent. Used in art projects.

Iron Oxide Slurry - Made from water, iron oxide pigments, and a dispersing agent. Minimizes sludge build-up and allows heat dissipation.

Toluene - A clear, water-insoluble liquid that smells like paint thinner. Used as industrial feedstock and as a solvent. Sometimes used as an inhalant drug. Toluene has been used to remove cocaine from coca leaves to make Coca-Cola syrup.

Aqueous Ammonia - A solution of ammonia in water. Used to stain wood and as an antimicrobial in fast food beef.

Brine - A solution of salt in water. Used to preserve vegetables, fruit, fish, and meat.

Morpholine - A common additive for pH adjustment in fossil fuel and nuclear power plant stream systems.

Methyl Ethyl Ketone - A colorless liquid with a sharp, sweet odor reminiscent of butterscotch and acetone. Used in connecting together parts of scale model kits and in dry erase markers.

Cherry Coke - Cherry flavored Coca-Cola introduced in 1985. Informally known as chola.

Mercury - The only liquid metal at standard temperature. Extremely toxic.

Black Liquor - The spent cooking liquor from the kraft process when digesting pulpwood into proper pulp. Used as an energy source in pulp mills.

Xylene - An aromatic hydrocarbon found in gasoline and airplane fuels. Slighty greasy and colourless.

Propylene Glycol - A colourless, nearly odorless, clear, viscous liquid with a faintly sweet taste. Used as a chemical feedstock in polyester resin production. Used as an aircraft de-icing fluid.

Baijiu - Chinese distilled white liquor made from sorghum or rice.

Molasses - Viscous by-product of the refining of sugarcane, grapes, and sugar beets into sugar.

Arctic Skies is the solo recording project of Jeremy Paquette. It started in August 2002 with a goal of writing and recording a complete album in a month and here I am 20+ years later, still creating albums based on random, self-imposed rules.