Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a welcome for joyous noise, for those navigating what Beckett called “this bitch of an earth.”

Dogwalks in the spring.
The world slicks with rain and trembles
to shrill choirs.

To Put Forth Shoots

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1. “Se Hai Timore Del Vero” – Keygen Church 
2. “Thawb Alzifah” – Omar Souleyman
3. “Harmonic Dream Sequence (Pt. 4)” – Dustin O’Halloran, Paul Corley
4. “Functionality” – Nowhere Squares
5. “Une Petite Suite: I. Stabilité mouvante” – Quatuor Zahir
6. “Requiem for Mississippi John Hurt (Live at the BBC, October 1987” – John Fahey
7. “Ice Cold” – Maurice Jarre
8. “Follow the Arrow (Live)” – Marco Benevento
9. “Last Melody” – The Church
10. “Dancer Polynomials” – Kelly Moran
11. “Angela (feat. Stas THEE Boss & Irene Barber)” – Shabazz Palaces, Irene Barber, Stas Thee Boss
12. “Christmas In Walnut Grove” – The Pine Hill Haints
13. “Skante” – Bodybox
14. “Little Sun” – Charlie Parr
15. “Journey In Satchidananda (Live)” – Alice Coltrane

Stephen McClurg (Episode 473) composes and improvises in Serenity Dagger, The Abdomen, and other projects. Along with session work for mid-Alabama singer/songwriters, he frequently collaborates with musicians across the state adding bass, guitar, and synths to friends’ recordings. He currently writes reviews for Horror DNA and is the substitute low end wrangler for Mobile-based punk rock band Future Hate. You can find out more about his work here.