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Surface Zero

by Pete Um

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Super Tramp 01:45
I wait like a harbour for the man S restless U caught in the sleep i can P the hours E the years on my own trail R and finding T it seems only as I fail R help me A I can't seem to help myself M define me P before i lose my health tell me won't you tell me who I am tell me won't you tell me who I am
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Get In Touch 02:15
catherine i hope you don't mind i just wanted to get in touch cos i'm um... been thinking about some stuff i've had a few things on my mind although i've tried to ignore my feelings i feel like i have to do or say something cos i feel like i've been going crazy like i don't even know which way is up anymore so basically, I just wanted to ask did you listen to my cd-r did you open the files i attached i know some of its a little bit political people say its somewhat conceptual and i've been getting kind of interested in texture but i didn't want to put this in a text, yeah catherine, please tell me...
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Huma Bird 01:25
HOT JULY MORNING IN NANGAHAR BRIDAL PARTY WALKS TOWARDS KUMALA HIGH ABOVE REMOTE RAVINE THE AEROPLANE REMAINS UNSEEN FLUSHED WITH SPIRIT WE CALL HU THEY FORGE AHEAD AS CHILDREN DO THE BRIDE WILL NEVER GREET HER GROOM ALL IS WHITE BOOM HUMA BIRD FOREVER FLIES INVISIBLE TO HUMAN EYES AGAIN FROM ASHES IT WILL RISE FABLED BIRD OF PARADISE
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Grey Lourie 01:20
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if another country looks like another country to you might as well expect i see the tall man walking his fast little wife behind he's like the unicycle guy got no girlfriend no room to ride besides she's better off without down on the ground down and without down and out I'm down and out does the writer have the right left to devise all circumspect by the windowside couldn't get more real it's Michelle on wheels her ride the curve from the road to drive watched by the man at 35 all watched by the man all children of the man child is the man ape is the man don't watch man's face don't think about the man remember you're a man while you're a man with time to while from time to time
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SIV 9 Dust 01:17
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I HAVE ALL OF THE SAD PULLING ME BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME KILLING THE CELLS IN MY EYES MAKING ME INTO A FILM PULLING AT THREADS IN MY MIND I HAVE ALL OF THE SAD SEEDING THE WORLD WITH MY PAIN PLACING WEIRD THINGS IN MY WAY SOME PISS-POOR PRIMARK OF SIGNS MAKING A PRISON FOR PROFIT OF TIME I HAVE ALL OF THE SAD
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In Character 02:25
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Wipers 02:26

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"On Surface Zero, it feels as though [Um's] simmering despair is about to boil over into full emotional meltdown."

- Wire

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released September 9, 2022

Art and Design by Anders Nienstaedt
Mastered by Yan Hart-Lemmonier
Compiled by Ben Van Howe

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Pete Um Cambridge, UK

"A master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented and crystallised himself, his work displays a sardonic wit combined with a healthy misanthropy, in marvellous micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics."

-Ergo Phizmiz
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