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26 Scientists Volume One Anning - Malthus by Artichoke
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13 tracks | 40 minutes
Released Mar 2005
on Artichoke
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:03 Albert Einstein lyrics BUY MP3 02:03 Albert Einstein lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:03 Albert Einstein
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:21 Mary Anning lyrics BUY MP3 02:21 Mary Anning lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:21 Mary Anning
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:49 Galileo Galilei lyrics BUY MP3 01:49 Galileo Galilei lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:49 Galileo Galilei
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:20 Werner Heisenberg lyrics BUY MP3 03:20 Werner Heisenberg lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:20 Werner Heisenberg
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:47 Thomas Robert Malthus lyrics BUY MP3 03:47 Thomas Robert Malthus lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:47 Thomas Robert Malthus
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:50 Charles Robert Darwin lyrics BUY MP3 04:50 Charles Robert Darwin lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:50 Charles Robert Darwin
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:29 Marie Curie lyrics BUY MP3 03:29 Marie Curie lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:29 Marie Curie
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:32 Richard Buckminster Fuller lyrics BUY MP3 03:32 Richard Buckminster Fuller lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:32 Richard Buckminster Fuller
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:36 Jan Ingenhousz lyrics BUY MP3 03:36 Jan Ingenhousz lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:36 Jan Ingenhousz
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Indie pop concept record of scientist biographies -- one for every letter of the alphabet -- in the tradition of the Beatles, Pixies, Breeders, Beck, Cake, the Fall, the Talking Heads, Wire, and Robyn Hitchcock.
Bio / Background
On Sunday we celebrated the release of Artichoke's "26 Scientists Volume One Anning - Malthus" with a waffle brunch followed by a living room concert. Friends from all over LA were here -- kids banging on drums, men in leather and rubber smiling through the porch windows -- and the acoustics of the living room improved greatly by all those bodies.
Sometimes I daydream that Terry Gross, host of NPR's "Fresh Air," is asking me how and why I began writing 26 loosely biographical songs about scientists, one for every letter of the alphabet. "Well, Terry," I reply as if we were old chums, "it was a bit of a songwriting stunt. The abecedarium, as the A to Z structure is called, has long been a popular device in kid's books, as well as with one of my favorite artists, Edward Gorey.
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