Durian Shakes and other lost songs

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1.	Durian Shakes 03:37	buy track
2.	Cigarette Cough 03:46	buy track
3.	All That Anyone Asked 04:05	buy track
4.	Kill Devil Hills 04:50	buy track
5.	Infant Army 03:52	buy track
6.	DidgeriDrums 00:57	buy track
7.	Moderation 03:38	buy track
8.	Nettles 01:59	buy track
9.	Righteous 03:02	buy track
10.	They Don't Know 03:40	buy track
11.	All That Anyone Asked (Erik Blood 2008 remix) 03:51	buy track

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A collection of previously unreleased (a couple showed up on various comps) songs from various eras of The Pica Beats

All songs (c)2015 Calm Yourself With Corduroy Music (ASCAP)

#1. Drums/Perc: Colin English, other stuff: R.Barrett
#2. Drums/Perc: Colin English, other stuff: R.Barrett
#3. Drums/Perc: Colin English/RB, OhOh vocals: Ashlee Hunter, other stuff: R.Barrett
#4. Drums/Perc: Colin English, other stuff: R.Barrett
#5. Drums/Perc: Colin English, other stuff: R.Barrett
(songs 1-5 written around the same time as the "Beating Back.." record)
#6. Drums: Colin English, holding microphone in didgeridoo and pointing it at Colin: R.Barrett
#7. All stuff: R.Barrett (yes, the very high backing vocals are me)
#8. All stuff: R.Barrett (originally written for Ball Of Wax #18 www.beeprepaired.com/oms.html )
#9 and #10. All stuff: R.Barrett (Originally from the compilation: Ball Of Wax 25: Songs About Books, organized by Levi Fuller and Paul Constant
Paul Constants writeup in The Stranger:
www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-books-behind-the-music/Content?oid=9536594&show=comments&sort=desc&display=

All songs recorded/mixed/mastered by R.Barrett

#11. Bonus Erik Blood remix from back in 2008!

Pica Beats is currently a retired project, but R.Barrett has a new pdx based band called Fen Wik Ren, and a solo project called Ant Brr Rye- recordings for those projects are available here: calmyourselfwithcorduroymusic.bandcamp.com

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released February 25, 2015

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