Elevator Tapes, by Nora Nygard

Elevator Tapes

by Nora Nygard

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	1.	I'm the Easygoing Wife, Skipping Skipping Perverse Along the Forest Boardwalk 08:49
	2.	A Wall of Speaker Cabinets Across the Horizon 15:35
	3.	Ashamed of the Proofs That I Can't Prove 11:15
	4.	To Celebrate the Joy of Suffering 12:39
	5.	Feedback Poisons the Pendulum 13:59
	6.	You Told Me Life Would Get Better 10:35
	7.	Hey Dream Maniacs Riddle Me This 08:00
	8.	Milky Collapse of the Redshift River 11:14
	9.	Strange How It All Keeps Going 05:07
	10.	Desperate to Be Forgotten 09:19
	11.	You're Falling Out of Love With Me 13:58
	12.	Nauseous Electricity Coursing Through My Mind 08:36
	13.	The One and Only Space Station 15:59
	14.	Out There on My Balloon 09:06
	15.	Locusts Sell My Soul 11:17
	16.	Hundreds of Fingertips on My Face 09:31
	17.	I Love Your Morning Smile 08:06
	18.	Throw Up in My Mouth 09:19
	19.	Today Is Your Day 23:29
	20.	Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor 09:05
	21.	Sick and Shy Lonesome and Meaningless Wasted and Gone Nothing Left but Regret Can't Think of a Reason Can't Run Faster than Satan I Think It Was Meant to Be 08:47
	22.	A Silver Elevator Illuminates the Snow 13:00

about

Improvised and layered drum tracks recorded to four-track cassette intermittently over the course of several years, followed by a take of improvised guitar recorded in spring of 2021 during one of the worst and longest depressive episodes of my life.

credits

released August 7, 2022

Thank you to my supporters on Patreon: Evan, Calvin, Divyaa, Chris, Aaron, Delia the Snake, Cameron, Jacob, Shannon, Blake, Frida and Zoë.

Thanks to my subscribers on Bandcamp: Jacob, Beat, Frida, Beau and Zoë.

Nora Nygard: Production / Recording / Mixing / Mastering / Transfer Cassette to Digital / Cover Art / Photography / Lyrics / Vocals / Beatbox / Drums / Drum Machine / Electric Guitar / Shaker / Sequencer

This compilation is a collection of tracks originally released by Citizen Scientist.

Recorded January 2016 to May 2021 at Midwest Biological Laboratories and the Elevator in Bismarck, ND.

The photograph was shot on 3 August 2020 in Bismarck.

Little Sisyphus | NN037

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Nora Nygard Saint Paul, Minnesota

I've always been searching. Drumming in punk bands. Singing into a cassette mic alone. Trans angst, alienation, going on the road. Synthesis, tape, poetry. Two failed tours, two failed degrees. Reclaiming my voice from the choir, reshaping my voice after punk rock. Years of isolation, hormone therapy, production studies, and hundreds of releases with various projects. ... more