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The Brazen Head - Time Is. Time Was. Time Past.

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1.	RDScally & The Obstweedles - Time Unravel 11:14	info	buy track
2.	RDScally & The Obstweedles - Things Are Different Now 05:09	info	buy track
3.	RDSCALLY & THE OBSTWEEDLES - Vexation Station 21:13	info	buy track
4.	RDScally & The Obstweedles - Summer Solstice 2022 02:04	info	buy track
5.	RDScally & The Obstweedles - Carpe Diem 04:31	info	buy track
6.	RDScally & The Obstweedles - Getouttatown 05:13	info	buy track
7.	RDScally & The Obstweedles - Outboard 13:14	info	buy track
8.	IDNFK 07:24	info	buy track
9.	Sci Fi Techno Tricks 11:27	info	buy track
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The cover depicts an Elizabethan woodcut of Miles playing his tambour while Friars Bacon and Bungay sleep and their Brazen Head speaks: "Time is. Time was. Time is past." (Creative Common via Wikipedia)

This album is about the hubris of deceptive technologists -- much like the creators of the modern social media -- and allegedly magical devices designed to answer questions, foretell the future via "talking heads" designed to fool people into believing things that are not true. This album also about how these deceptive technologies can warp human perceptions of time.

A brazen head, brass, or bronze head was a legendary automaton in the early modern period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars, such as Roger Bacon, who had developed a reputation as wizards.

Made of brass or bronze, the male head was variously mechanical or magical. Like Odin's head of Mimir in Norse paganism, it was reputed to be able to correctly answer any question put to it, although it was sometimes restricted to "yes" or "no" answers.

In the seventeenth century, Thomas Browne considered brazen heads to be misunderstanding of the scholars' alchemical work, while in modern times, Borlik argues that they came to serve as "a metonymy for the hubris of Renaissance intellectuals and artists".

Idries Shah devotes a chapter of his book The Sufis to providing an interpretation of this "head of wisdom" as well as the phrase "making a head", stating that at its source the head "is none other than the symbol of the [Sufic] completed man."

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released August 29, 2022

Recorded 2022 at Digital Shadow Management Studios, San Diego, Calif.

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