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The Comet Watchers

by Mondo Lava

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Motor Dino 07:01
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Pangeambique 02:45
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about

I recorded this album in 2018 and 2019 after moving to Ohio. It developed out of a rather convoluted premise, I envisioned it as the soundtrack to an animated film; an unmade Ralph Bakshi movie perhaps, where a clan of cavemen enact a pageant where they are dinosaurs. One of the dinosaurs has a nightmare where he sees himself transformed into a car, and the existential dread that it evokes in him causes him to consult a dino-astrologer who predicts the coming of an asteroid. The dinosaur gathers a dino death cult who then all perform a ballet through which their dancing influences the motion of the planet into the asteroid’s path, striking the planet and causing the mass dinosaur extinction.
I am not sure how much this narrative actually matters to the piece really at this point, though when listening to it, it feels cinematic and I see it play out before my eyes. But I suppose more broadly, the album deals with the theme of the anxiety and anticipation of a dreaded potential future that will taint a tranquil state, and opting for death rather than awaiting the feared fate. The irony in the narrative is that the mass extinction is what transformed the dinosaurs into fossil fuels (although apparently they say that this isn’t actually true and fossil fuels do not come from dinosaurs and that is merely a popular myth). In that sense, I suppose it is quite fatalist, and I suppose reflects the powerlessness I feel in regard to humanity meaningfully addressing the looming climate apocalypse.
All intents and purposes aside, here is The Comet Watchers, which at the least I hope evokes for you a cinematic experience, with perhaps a completely distinct narrative.

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released November 5, 2020

Jumz Quechum
Leon ROC yourbody Hu - Asteroid A492, Motordino (Frippertronics), Smoldering Chicxulub Crater
Gareth Ewing - Asteroid A492

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Mondo Lava Pamplona, Spain

Mondo Lava is James Ketchum and Leon Hu. Sometimes Gareth Ewing.
burntcrust@gmail.com

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