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As For the Future

by As For the Future

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Black 12" vinyl record, jacket with artwork by Bernie DeChant, sleeve with lyrics and credits. Includes MP3 download code.

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Deluxe edition CD of the As For the Future album includes bonus tracks and edits: six dub versions and alternate mixes, as well as three radio edits. Design is an 8-panel foldout with artwork by Bernie DeChant, lyrics, and credits.

    Includes digital pre-order of As For the Future. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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1.
Don't Do It Again
2.
Koan for the Music Business
3.
You Need Me More Than You Know
4.
There’s a song down in the ocean A song high in the sky A song deep in a canyon that can swim and fly and I will travel my whole life to find it or I will wait here my whole life until it comes to me There’s a song in every traffic jam in every subway car A song in a crowded theater or in the emptiest bar and I will go out every night to find it or I will wait here all my life until it comes to me A song you can rely on A song that takes your breath away A song based on a heart-to-heart A song for what you cannot say There’s a song in every peaceful thing In every act of violence A song in every melody or moment of silence and I will pledge my life to finding it or I will wait here my whole life until it comes to me There’s a song in every hotel room and every grain of sand A song in every nodding head and every shaken hand and I will travel far and wide to find it or I will wait here all my life until it comes to me There’s a song in every movie screen A song in every laptop screen A song in every iPhone screen A song in every screen and I will stay in every night to find it or I will go out every night until it comes to me A song written in solitude A song composed with friends A song less than a minute long A song that never ends There’s a song in every instrument A song in every voice A song in every insistence and misbegotten choice And I will live my life trying to find it or I will wait here all my life until it comes to me
5.
My Therapist
6.
The Mob
7.
Shell 03:29
This shell of a man You picked up off the sand Put his face to your ear To see what you could hear Some heavy breathing maybe a heart still beating A voice that gives you only expletives This shell of a man You picked up off the sand Took him back to your chair To see what was there His sailboat was rocked And he became landlocked Now that you've found him Can you teach him to swim? Is he the last of his kind or is he easy to find? Will he crawl away from you like sand creatures do? Is he strange and ethereal or is he mating material? Would you fall in love if he asked you to and let this shell of a man sing to you?
8.
Childlike
9.
Letters on the Line
10.
Looking Around

credits

releases June 14, 2024

Produced and arranged by As For the Future.

Mixed by D. James Goodwin at The Isokon, Kingston, NY.

Instruments:
Brian Kantor: Drums (Tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Ryan Keberle: Trombones, Synths, Whistling
David Lizmi: Electric & Acoustic Bass
David Nagler: Nylon and Steel String Guitars, Keyboards & Synthesizers, Cavaquinho
Mauro Refosco: Percussion
Ray Rizzo: Drums (Tracks 1, 9, 10)
Stephanie Sanders: Electric and Acoustic Pianos (Tracks 2, 5, 6, 7)
with
Vinicius Gomes: Nylon Guitar (Track 3)
Roberta Michel: Flute (Track 2)
Ryan Ross Smith: Modular Synthesizers (Track 6)

Singers:
Alexia Bomtempo: lead vocals (Tracks 3, 6, 10)
David Nagler: lead vocals (Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9)
with
Xavier Smith, Annie Nero, Brian Kantor, Brooks Allison, Lauren Balthrop, Joanna Choy, Dave Derby, D. James Goodwin, Jeremy Haines, Jessie Kilguss, Jason Bemis Lawrence, Max Avery Lichtenstein, Stephanie Sanders

Recorded at:
SuperLegal Studios, Brooklyn, NY by Jake Owen
The Isokon, Kingston, NY by D. James Goodwin
Studio Red, North Hollywood, CA by Adam Lasus
Birchwood Basement Recording, Lenox, MA
The Soundry Music Studio, South Egremont, MA
Tin Drum Studios, Cos Cob, CT
The Attic, Kingston, NY
BSHQ, Brooklyn, NY
Missile Shells Sound Studio, New York, NY
Studio K, Brooklyn, NY

Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering, Brooklyn, NY.

All songs by David Nagler, except "Encyclopedia of Songs" by David Nagler and Brian Kantor, published by The One That Sings Music [BMI].

Photography by Bernie DeChant. Design by Sheila Sachs.

Thanks: Jake Owen, Therese Cox, Alex Knowlton & Joe's Pub, Olivier Conan & Barbès, Charles A. Perrone, Victoria Broadus.

“When everyone lives in the future / the present is au revoir” —The Residents

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NYC-meets-Brazil musical collective

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