"Perfect Parts - Nassau" recorded at Basketball Lake and in the City of Holy Faith, mixed in the City of Holy Faith, May 2019
"Private Lives I - City of Holy Faith" recorded safe at home, November 2019
"Private Lives II - Hello Earth" recorded in the City of Holy Faith and mixed at Basketball Lake, June 2019
credits
released April 4, 2020
Title based on Robert Ashley's "Perfect Lives" and "Private Parts" (1978-1983)
Cover photo of the Leshan Buddha, Sichuan Province, China. Photographer unknown.
"Private Lives I - City of Holy Faith" is inspired by the life of Shabetai Tzvi as documented in Gershom Scholem's "Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah" (translation by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, Princeton Classics edition 2017)
"Private Lives II - Hello Earth" is based on "Hello Earth" (Kate Bush, "The Hounds of Love", EMI, Sony/ATV, 1985)
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