Extratone by Girl Animusica
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
An album about gender incongruence, telepathy and the construction of a trans-galactic elevator shaft.
Tracklist
| 1. | Fractals | 6:21 |
| 2. | Eddie Van Halen's Brain | 0:39 |
| 3. | Freezer Burn | 2:09 |
| 4. | Each Peach Pear Plum | 2:03 |
| 5. | Same Same Same Same Same (Eye for an Aye) | 1:43 |
| 6. | a breath under footsteps | 2:06 |
| 7. | Ovarian Embassy Waltz | 2:13 |
| 8. | 999 | 5:13 |
| 9. | Massive Embankment Explosion, Shadow Mtn | 5:30 |
| 10. | As Much as It Pains Me to Admit | 1:35 |
| 11. | From a Lenticular Galaxy | 8:47 |
| 12. | hmm | 1:56 |
| 13. | Cloud of Flies Buzzing in Hexagon | 2:26 |
| 14. | Supernova of Forgotten Laws of the Universe | 1:16 |
| 15. | jar of blood? | 1:00 |
| 16. | This Day is a Crevice in the Midnight Zone (anxon) | 0:18 |
| 17. | 40 winks / Haranguing the Multitudes en Melodee | 3:09 |
| 18. | Sweet! offering | 1:02 |
| 19. | Self Sacrifice to the Unknown | 4:14 |
Credits
released October 31, 2023
"Extratone" was written and produced by J. Aelita Paquette, who sings and plays the following instruments on the album: a Danelectro sitar, a 19-string lever harp, a cello, a steel-string acoustic guitar, a drum kit with pieces of inconsistent brand and origin¹, a JT-30 3/4-scale electric guitar w/ a modified microtonal fretboard, a tambourine, a nylon-string acoustic guitar conspicuously missing its D string², an upright piano, a nylon-string "ukulele guitar", a taishogoto, a Squier Bullet Stratocaster, a triangle, a recorder, a JTB-445 5-string Stingray bass guitar completely covered headstock-to-lower-strap-button in stickers, an Estey pump organ, bongos, an Epiphone mandolin, a glockenspiel, a bowed 3-string cardboard dulcimer, a maraca, a Gulbransen Pacemaker electric organ, a faux-Rickenbacker 12-string semihollow electric guitar, an egg shaker, an electric violin, & various vocoders, VST instruments & samplers.
The piano and organ were recorded at the Buoyant Heart in Brattleboro VT (Thank you Jess). Some of the harp and feedback sounds were recorded on the campus of a now-defunct college in Marlboro VT (Thank you HB/Hana/Grace/Rae). Also thanks to Sky and Rob.
¹ More specifically, a Mapex 5pc kit augmented w/ Sabian 13" hi-hats, Wuhan 10" & 12" splash cymbals, Wuhan 14" crash, Zildjian ZXT 14" china, Planet Z 20" ride & Saluda 20" ride, as well as a 12" rototom of unknown origin & an occasional additional floor tom from another retired drum kit.
² A fact which, if one were to write tablature for the songs that used this particular instrument, would undoubtedly become very apparent.
"Extratone" was written and produced by J. Aelita Paquette, who sings and plays the following instruments on the album: a Danelectro sitar, a 19-string lever harp, a cello, a steel-string acoustic guitar, a drum kit with pieces of inconsistent brand and origin¹, a JT-30 3/4-scale electric guitar w/ a modified microtonal fretboard, a tambourine, a nylon-string acoustic guitar conspicuously missing its D string², an upright piano, a nylon-string "ukulele guitar", a taishogoto, a Squier Bullet Stratocaster, a triangle, a recorder, a JTB-445 5-string Stingray bass guitar completely covered headstock-to-lower-strap-button in stickers, an Estey pump organ, bongos, an Epiphone mandolin, a glockenspiel, a bowed 3-string cardboard dulcimer, a maraca, a Gulbransen Pacemaker electric organ, a faux-Rickenbacker 12-string semihollow electric guitar, an egg shaker, an electric violin, & various vocoders, VST instruments & samplers.
The piano and organ were recorded at the Buoyant Heart in Brattleboro VT (Thank you Jess). Some of the harp and feedback sounds were recorded on the campus of a now-defunct college in Marlboro VT (Thank you HB/Hana/Grace/Rae). Also thanks to Sky and Rob.
¹ More specifically, a Mapex 5pc kit augmented w/ Sabian 13" hi-hats, Wuhan 10" & 12" splash cymbals, Wuhan 14" crash, Zildjian ZXT 14" china, Planet Z 20" ride & Saluda 20" ride, as well as a 12" rototom of unknown origin & an occasional additional floor tom from another retired drum kit.
² A fact which, if one were to write tablature for the songs that used this particular instrument, would undoubtedly become very apparent.
License
CC BY-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Tags
It was easy to spot her. All you needed to do was look at her socks. They were never a matching pair. One would be green while the other would be blue. One would reach her knee while the other barely touched her ankle. Every other part of her was perfect, but never the socks. They were her micro act of rebellion.