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.”

Outpacing Us Again

Kept waiting in curved air,
moving in circles, stair to stair.
The windows, some open, some broken, 
like chords plucked on a kora,
a magic gourd of tender auras
shifting with the sun.

Tender Auras
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1. “Buscando La Zorra” – Los Orientales de Paramongo
2. “Bar-B-Que (Jug Band)” – Paul Williams
3. “Mowing” – Matthew Herbert, Herbert, Momoko Gill
4. “Interlude: Witchdoctor” – Nascimbene
5. “Manta Ray” – Pixies
6. “Magic Lights” – Azzurro 80
7. “The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop [Fibre-Optic Flowers]” – Kronos Quartet
8. “Gyroslip” – Camila Nebbia, Gon Muruaga, Jonathan Bäckström
9. “The Hole in the Wall” – Dallas Good, Richard Reed Parry, Neko Case
10. “The City Spills” – Ella van der Woude
11. “Meatpecker” – Honey Ride Me a Goat 
12. “Kaleidosmoke” – BCMC
13. “Suite from Rodan (1956) (feat. John DeSantis)” – Akira Ifukube
14. “Fe Nour Mohyak” – Umm Kulthum
15. “Long term (remote)” – The Caretaker

Stephen McClurg (Episode 473 & 666) 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.