No Filler Music Podcast - Cinematic Beats From The Not-So-Distant Future - Peace Orchestra

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

We hit pause on the usual No Filler fare and spend some time with our favorite flavor of electronic music: downtempo at it's finest. We listen to Peace Orchestra's debut self-titled record, featuring Austrian producer Peter Kruder's masterfully crafted cinematic, swirling, and evocative beats and melodies. Grab your favorite pair of headphones and join us as we remember why nothing beats an exceptional downtempo track. We also get stunned into silence by a surprise Nina Simone track. Tracklist Peace Orchestra - Meister Petz Peace Orchestra - Marakesh Peace Orchestra - Henry Peace Orchestra - Who Am I Nina Simone - Who Am I This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Hey, I'm John Stewart, and you're listening to the Pantheon Network. And welcome to No Filler. The music podcast dedicated to sharing the often overlooked hidden gyms to fill the space between the singles on our favorite records. my name is Travis I got my brother Quentin with me as always and this is my favorite kind of episode Q the ones where you have no clue what I'm bringing yeah not not a damn clue I think didn't you change your mind like yesterday on what you were going to bring I changed my like three times

over the last like few weeks are you going to give me a genre at least yeah oh yeah are we okay I'll give you a genre but you know we if you listen to our watch your heard episodes we play a wide variety of music, right? But for the most part, it's shoe gaze and 90s, all rock, grungy type stuff, right? But we play a lot of electronic music and stuff too. But, you know, we sprinkle in other stuff here and there, right? Occasionally. Since we only have, yeah, occasionally.

Since we only have 12 deep dives this year, and we've done a lot of shoegays and rock already, I figure we need to do some down tempo queue. Amen, brother. It's been way too long. It's been too long. And I know from at least one of our listeners, Mitchell, that the last time we did a round of down tempo albums, we did a whole month of down tempo one or two years ago. That people like this stuff. Well, yeah, and Mitchell does not historically listen to down tempo.

So we turn some heads, change some hearts. Maybe we'll do it again tonight. That's what I'm hoping. All right, Q, you should know the name Peter Kruder. Of Kruder and Dorfmeister. Of Kruder and Dorfmeister. So, Dorfmeister, Richard Dorfmeister is his name, is one half of this group called Tosca, Austrian electronic duo.

Who I think both you and I consider to be like... Top tier, dude. Yeah, top tier godfathers of the genre. Yeah. Yeah. That's Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Hooper. And then Dorfmeister does a side project with this guy, Peter Kruder. They just, they go by Kruder and Dorfmeister. So Peter Kruder did a solo project called Peace Orchestra, which you may have heard of, Q.

I haven't actually. I'm just even more stoked right now then, dude, if you've never heard this stuff before. It's great. I don't think I have. You might be familiar with one of the tracks I'm bringing. and a lot of you might not realize that you know this song because it's been featured on several, the Wokowski sisters have used this musician or this song

in some Matrix properties. It's on the Animatrix project. And the song has also showed up in Memento, one of my favorite films. And this other film called St. Day, which is one of my all-time favorite films. Anyway, so I'm going to play that last because that's kind of like the song that got a little bit of... Hang on. Is that that movie with Ryan Gosling?

Yeah, it's Ryan Gosling. Dude, yeah, that one messed me up. I loved it. Loved it, man. They also, that film also has some massive attack in it. So a lot of good, like, down-tempo trip hop kind of stuff in that film. Anyway, yeah, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts. and that other guy.

What's the other guy? He was in... Dude, I haven't seen it so long. He was in Star Wars, the recent Star Wars project. Obi-Wan, he's young, Obi-Wan. E. Owen McGregor. Ewan. You and me, dude.

You and me. I don't know. Yeah, you and McGregor. Anyway, go check it out. Stay. It was a good film. So anyway, we're going to do Peace Orchestra today. This is a self-titled record.

It came out in 1999. and we're just going to play tunes, dude. This is, so... Talk about a 180. I mean, we haven't done anything like this all year. That's what I'm saying. You know, this is probably the one, the one episode that's devoted to this kind of music,

but I feel like we, you know, we have to do it. You know, this is part of our, our musical DNA, dude. Hey, I was going to say those exact words. Were you really? You were going to say musical DNA? I was. Okay.

Here we are. All right. So, here's one thing. thing I want to do, Q, because I feel like, as you just said, maybe we're introducing listeners out there to the genre itself, down to tempo, right? So here's like a little, a little crash course and like how to listen to down tempo. You know what I mean? We talk about this a lot. It's all about the layers, layer building, right? It's about like, you know, there's going to be that foundational layer. And then you're adding.

to it and then you're taken away and then you're adding it back and I feel like maybe these three gentlemen if there is a rushmore of down tempo I would put cruder in there too just because I feel like he's part of the collective of like Dorfmeister for sure you know Toska cruder yeah there's always a there's always a backbone in the song and it's it almost always gets carried through the whole song right and yeah layers get added on my thing with down tip a good test, I think, to see if it's a good down-timpos song or not. It's the kind of music that you could play at like a cocktail party that could get lost in the background.

But, you know, good music to play while you've got people over, whatever, entertaining. But if you actually sit down and press play and actually pay attention and enjoy the record for what it is, you're going to notice things that you don't notice if it's just playing in the background. I mean, you could say that for every kind of song, right? Every kind of genre. But like...

Yeah, but no. But with down tempo, it's very repetitive. And it's usually... It's like dance music in a way. Yeah, they can't have a beat to it for sure. Yeah. But it's usually pretty loungy, too. But good down tempo is worth paying attention to.

Yeah, and it's going to have elements of like jazz in it. Yeah. especially the drum beats, the drum. A lot of times they're sampling in like jazz artists and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. So what's interesting about this particular record is, I feel like some of these songs that I'm bringing are going to feel more cinematic, which is interesting.

But yeah, I'm going to play, I feel like I'm going to, you know, I want to ease us into this queue. So I'm going to play more of the more straightforward kind of down-tempo track on this record. And then the middle two tracks, I'm going to play. play are very, very interesting, dude, very cinematic, like I said. And then we'll close with Who Am I, the track that has gotten a lot of, like, you know, exposure and like films and stuff. All right.

Let's just dive right in here. So a little background on Peter Kruder just before I push play here on the first track. So again, he is another Austrian producer and DJ. he's most known for his work with Richard Dorfmeister. That's the K&D sessions. I think we've actually played a track probably from that record at some point, dude. We had to have over the last like, you know, six years, whatever they've been doing this.

Is that the one where the album art is like an homage to Buckins? Is that Bookins? Simon and Garfunkel? That's G. Stone. G. Stone. Yeah. That's a great. Oh, I'm pretty sure I played high noon before.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so not the first time you've heard this guy's music on this podcast if you've been listening for a long time. Basically, whenever he's doing his own solo stuff, he does it under the name Peace Orchestra. That's all you need to know, Q. We're just going to dive right in. All right. So again, this album is self-titled Peace Orchestra record.

It came out in 1999. I'm not going to pronounce this first song correctly, but here we go. So this song is called Meister Pets. It's a down tempo, man, from one of the greats. Yeah, I feel like that's a good starter intro to down tempo kind of track, right? Nothing too fancy, not really blowing skirts up, but it's a good, it's a great track, right? Yeah, and you know, it's funny. Now, like, now I kind of see what he's bringing to the table for Tosca.

But he's not in Tosca, dude. He's not in Tosca. That's what's funny because like... Okay, so they must all make music together. I was thinking the same thing because I was like, man, that sounds kind of like some stuff you hear in Toska. A lot. Yeah, for sure. He's not in Toska, which is funny.

I mean, he works with Richard Dorfmeister quite a bit, so maybe Dorfmeister's rubbing off on him or vice versa. Yeah, yeah. But, or maybe this is just, you know, something in the water in Vienna, Austria, where they're all from. but yeah it's some of the stuff and it sounds like the same the same tricks that that the taska duo you know employ and in their music you know so yeah i always wonder with with don't know like what comes first with with the building up like building this song what came first did he did he find a you know a jazz record that he liked and he heard something that he wanted to sample out of that and then build from there, you know?

Right. How do the drums get built? Is it something he's doing on his own or is he sampling drum beats? It's, you know, sometimes it's hard to tell. Well, I know for certain that the bongos, if you picked up on bongos on that track, that's a person in the studio laying down bongs. Wow. named sugar sugar be less is his name wait sir be less right sorry sorry circus

moirth maybe he's making the shit up but I say it's around the liner notes it says maister maister pets titled by sugar be less bongs by circus moirth circus north moirth m o er t h okay but i think it's funny that he he he he credited the person who came up with the title. Who came up with the title. Some guy named Shicker. I was making all this stuff up. I'm looking at the liner notes here here.

So anyway. Well, yeah, that's a good, that's a good entry point for down tempo, if you've never really dove into it before. Here's an article by the website exclaim.ca.com. Which I guess is Canada. It says here, Meister Pets. I'm going to say it correctly if I mispronounce it multiple different ways. Will perhaps be the most familiar sounding for K&D fans.

So that's another thing that that song is a more, sounds like the kind of stuff that he puts out with Dorfmeister, right? So again, this is, I'm easing us in here because the next two tracks are wild, dude. You're going to love it. The song's incredibly full production encompasses beautifully treated baritone clarinet, French horn, dubby bass lines, and wicked mid. the tempo beats. unbelievably all samples,

except for the bongos, if I'm to believe the liner knows. But yeah, that's wild to me, dude. You can take samples and make something like that. I love it. It's an art form, dude.

Yeah, that's something that I didn't use to appreciate. And I think, I'm sure we brought this up when we covered down tempo for a whole month. But like, there was a time, I mean, growing up,

if it wasn't a rock band, If it wasn't musicians with their instruments, I didn't care about it at all. Right. But like there's a totally different like appreciation and skill. I mean, it's not easy. I've tried making sample-based tunes, dude. It's not easy to do. And it takes a true musician to create an entire song out of just samples.

I mean, that's, it's uber talent right there. Especially, I know we talked about this in either our Thievery Corporation episode or one of our Toska episodes. Because we had traced, it was like a, it was a Pat Mathini sample or something like that. But the thing that always amazes me is that, you know, we're basically, when we hear these songs, we are sort of getting like a sneak peek. into their the vinyl records

that are sitting on their shelves because like they had to be listening to this stuff to be able to sample it and to think like this song here I'm listening to in Papathini

I'm going to take this one part from it and it's gonna be perfect for this song that I'm working on over here you know where I got this baseline from this other track

and this drum beep from this other this obscure jazz song you know it's wild dude yeah we talked about that in our Tribe Cold Quest episode too

yeah I think it was an interview with Q-tip Yeah, dude. Who mentioned the same thing. That was kind of like... And they were going through their parents' records, which is cool. Because you didn't have to have the money to purchase instruments while you needed was access to your dad's records, you know, and a little eight track or something.

That's why Tribe Quill Quest sample a bunch of old jazz records, right? Because that's what was on the shelves behind them and they're, you know, their living room, whatever. Yep, yep. Anyway, all right, Q, let's go to the next track here. You're about to... Your socks are about to fly off, dude. This song blew me away. All right, here we go.

How did you know I was wearing socks, dude? Lucky guess, you know. Let's just say, I hope you were wearing socks, you know. Well, I guess they're going to be... They're going to start flying, so... You're not going to be wearing him for very much longer. All right, so this is track five on the record. And we're going to split this into a couple tracks or a couple clips here.

This song is called Marrakesh. Meisterpats really is like a like what you'd hear on Wikipedia for just down tempo. If you looked up down tempo on Wikipedia, sometimes you have clips of songs. Like here's a good example of that. Marrakesh is like, it's like, um, no, Marrakesh is like what, what you and I seek out in down tempo. Yeah. Just like really good like, um, I don't know, drops in the beat that all just kind of come back in.

Yeah. And that's kind of what we're talking about with the. layers like awesome jazz just just like it's just a good jazz music really yeah and like you know here's a here's a pro tip like when you hear when you hear something drop out of the track like that something's about to change you know what i mean so like pay attention because like it's about to he's you know the the producer's about to mix it up a little bit they're going to add another layer and then probably that thing that was taken away it might come back later you know like it's just really engaging to listen to those stuff and this is kind of what i was talking about with

like cinematic. Like this is a very cinematic song. Yes. And you know what this reminded me of? Scalpel, which is another one of our favorite groups. Right. Yeah. With very cinematic. I know we've covered Scalpel on this. Yeah. We've done an episode for sure. Well, so yeah, I'm glad that you say that because this next clip, the next part of the song, definitely feels like a scalpel song. So here you go. They're going to pick it up again here. I'm going to roll it back a little bit. So here go. Here's the next clip from Marrakesh. That voice came out of nowhere. Definitely, like, not expected.

Love the vocal sample, dude. I would love to hear where that was sampled from. Yeah, seriously. Now, let's see if we can get an answer to you because we all know and love. Who sampled.com. Who sampled.com. So, yeah, I mean, it was kind of like a scat kind of vocal type thing, right? Yeah.

Which is awesome. All right, here we go. Let's see if we can get some answers here. Here we go, Marrakesh. Let's see. if it's the vocal sample, but this is something from by myself by Ursula Dudesack.

Here we go, let's see. Sample appears at 351. That's probably... Hey, that sounds about right. Let's see, let's see. This is getting exciting. All right, there it is. Now, that's funny because...

I thought he may have, you know, thrown in a little bit more... Did a little bit more work on that. He just basically straight up took it. Right? I thought like, oh man, that's cool. He added those, like, the echo and all that stuff. Noop

straight up from the song. He definitely manipulated it a little bit. But yeah. Sure. Let me just skip it in the middle of this song. Is this just nothing? Her vocals, I wonder?

Let's see. All right. But that's wild, dude, because he's got, he's got it in his record collection, dude. For some reason he has this.

And that's, think about it, dude, if you're a down tempo musician, you're looking for stuff like this, man. For sure.

Vocal tracks that's isolated vocal. It's so easy. Exactly, exactly. Anyway, so wild, dude. But that's, because think about it. Out of context, like that song's, you know, that's cool. But I mean, what he did, he made it so much, he took it and like elevated it.

You know what I mean? When he dropped it in, it becomes like mysterious and kind of like dark and kind of cool. That's what I love about down tempo. Yeah, man. Thank you, who sampled.com. Love it. All right. So here's another website, AV Club.

It says this is a headphone album in the best sense. Peace Orchestra is full of virtuoso programming, keen melodies, swirling synths, and smooth samples, so carefully integrated that the album sounds almost like a live session recorded at some smoky club in the near future. I know we've always talked about. You know, that's what I always thought about scalpel too. Just flawless samples.

Like you walked into a 30s jazz club, you know, Polish jazz. Smoke-filled. It's always smoke-filled, dude. Always smoke-filled rooms. All right, we're going to jump down on the very next track here. Here's another very cinematic song, another one that kind of blew me right. All right. This song is called Henry.

No part of that song sounded sample to me. Not one bit. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot going on. There's like, you know, there's like some orchestral stuff in the beginning. It almost sounds like a orchestra warming up or something. Very cinematic, like you see. It's a drum beat too, man. Like, jazzy.

How is that not just an intact drum track? It probably is. Maybe it is. So here's, all right. Yeah, but that would have to be another isolated drum track that he just happened to find, like that Skeledad song. Right, right, right. Well, whose samples is not helping us out here.

They don't have anything about this track in particular. But here's a quote, again from that interview and exclaiming. exclaim.ca.ca. This appears to be an interview from 1999. So this might have been right when the record came out. He says here, this is Peter talking. I sample live instruments, but I play with them. So that means he may have had somebody in the studio with that drum,

doing that drum beat and then he sampled it, right? So says, I hardly take loops off records or whole bars of melodies. Most of the time, I just sample tiny little bits, play around, and try to find the melody, rhythm, or baseline. Interesting. Interesting. But it's, yeah, that's, that to me sounded the most like a scalpel track where it's like, you know, what they did, those two guys did, it's always duos. It seems like with Dantevote, it's always two musicians, two producers. But what they did is they sampled from old Polish jazz records, right?

their whole thing. So they would take a jump beat like that and then just like sample it, right? Anyway, let's pick this back up. So I'm going to play the second clip here from Henry. Let's see where he goes with this. And this is like a straight up soundtrack to Secret Agent. Oh, yeah. 60s movie or something. I'm getting James Bond for sure. Like classic Bond film, dude. Yeah, heist film, something like that. For some reason, that always works for downtown.

I always think of like Oceans 11 or something like that. And that's probably because Ocean's 11 had a bunch of downtip post up on the soundtrack. But yeah, right. Because, yeah, that's why. Because the music works for that kind of stuff for some reason. But yeah, this, you know, that like almost, you know, it's like a funk kind of, that main melody is kind of funky.

It's got almost like a, not really a wah-wa, pedal, but like some flange or something like that, uh, going on, which is on, you know, very funky, which is different. But yeah, what, what I love about down tempo, what I've always loved about down tempo is that you, at least a good down tempo, you don't know what you're, what's going to happen. Like good down to boat, like keeps you guessing. Dude, yeah, right before you faded out, I was just sitting in the face with that like, like, wow. Yeah. It's, it was like a, a band like sting, you know, but like, yeah, that would be the point in the film where like, I don't know.

Somebody gets punched in the base or something. Assassin jumps out of the bushes or something. I was going something different. Yeah, exactly. But I feel like down tempo is, there's a lot of shitty downtimpo out there, dude. Because it's not that hard to get the software needed to do it. And I think a lot of people just, you know, you got your dime a dozen, you know, beats to chill to or whatever, like YouTube, live YouTube stations out there and stuff like that.

Just play like the generic sound and stuff. And that's why lofi, well, what was, lofi beats to study to or whatever. To study to. Yeah. Chill lof, which some of that's, some of that's good and that's fine for what it is. But like, you know, there's people that musicians like this guy, Peter Kruder, and then Dorfmeister and Hubert. I'm going to say Hubert maybe. because it sounds

Austrian, right? Hubert. They're just like, they've elevated it to it's a whole other level. You know what I mean? Same with the guys

from Theory Corporation. You know, basically all the artists that we've covered Q, we only cover the best here on a filler. Roikstop is another one, you know,

the other one that we did. Oh, man. Dude, I've been wanting to cover Melody AM on here, dude. I thought we did. We did. I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. I'm pretty sure that was one of the records that we did in our month of Down topo. Yeah. Okay, cool. But yeah, man, when it's done, right? Like there's nothing, nothing beats it, you know?

Because they, they're just, they're at a whole other level, you know? All right, here's another quote from Peter. And then we'll play our last track here. So he says here, this is interesting. Every time I'm creating a song, I'm first trying to set a mood. I rarely start with beats. I start with the things around them, the harmonies and the mood, then the beat comes along.

So that's interesting. Okay. Because, you know, with Henry, it's a very like jazzy, straightforward kind of jazz, you know, riding the ride symbol kind of thing. Yeah,

that's just a classic jazz drumbeat, right? So it's interesting that if what he's saying is true with this song, he had everything else lined up. And then he's like, I think a simple jazz, very classic jazz drumbeat. is going to work with this song. So it's just cool.

That's what I love to hear about the process that goes into making these songs because they're sampling from so many different styles sometimes. You remember we did Quantic and he talked a lot about that like his process. It was another good one. But yeah, go back and scroll back in our feed far enough back. And you'll find a bunch of episodes that we did on this kind of music if you like this kind of stuff. So yeah, so I just looked it up and if and I just searched by typing in melody AM workshop so I'm not looking at our how this fits

in all the other episodes that we dropped so if this was released at the same time we did our monthly dive our month dive into down tempo this would have been in 2021 August of 2021 okay yeah three years ago dude yeah that's right so yeah we did we did thievery corporation we did tuska again I think Maybe not. I'll just scroll through and see if I can find it. We did Underworld, which was awesome. Yeah, that's one of my favorite.

Quantic. That we did. I think that was those four. And there works out. Properly chilled, the down-tempo mix tape. That's how we ended it. Yeah, so that was all 2021. Properly chilled was just like a grab bag.

It's just a bunch of stuff. Yeah. We basically like a what you heard, but it was all down-tipal stuff. All right. So I'm going to end it again with a track that some of you, may be familiar with out there because it has appeared on Memento, it appeared on a film called Stay, and most notably it appeared on Animatrix. So here we go. Now we're back to classic down to Bodeo, but this song is incredible. Here we go. This song is called Who Am I? The Goodes right there.

Very sparingly dropped in that Who Am I vocal sample. And I mean, he couldn't have done it any better. Yeah, perfect. Like I thought, when it, when it first dropped it, like, really threw me in a good way. And then I, I was expecting to hear it more after that. Mm-hmm. But he still used it so sparingly afterwards. Yeah.

Effectively. Very effectively. Effectively. Yeah. And that's the mood, dude, that's the mood that I like, yeah, down tempo. Dark. Does better than any other electronic genre. Yeah.

So here's a quote. and then I'm going to play the sample so we can actually hear whose voice that is. So, from Eryga, from the same article that I've been reading from exclaim.ca. The album goes on to span from Middle Eastern flavors with Marrakesh, which is a track I played a couple songs back, to the thick brooding down tempo of Who Am I, complete with vocal samples reminiscent of Nina Simone.

So when this article is written, I'm guessing who sample didn't exist and this person wasn't familiar enough with Nina Simone to realize that that is actually Nina Simone. So that guy was spot on. He's like, that sounds like Nina Simone. It is Nina Simone, dude. So here we go. Here's the song, Who Am I, by Nina Simone from 1970. I'm going to jump right to where that sample appears. So I'm jumping to 20 seconds into this track.

Here we go. Who am I? Was it all planned in advance? Or was I just born by chance in July? My friends only think of fun, they're such a curious lot. Must I be the only one who thinks these mysterious thoughts? I'm dead. Dude, I'm just fucking pulling away right now.

I need a Simone. I just became mesmerized by that. Yeah, dude. Captivated. I'm not have to go listen to Anita Simone now because I confess. I know who she is. I know how much of an icon she is. But good God.

I don't know if you can. Here's me typing frantically away on my keys so I could save that album. Holy crap. I just had a moment there. Anyway. You do, man. Holy crap. That's why I was like, I can't stop playing this sample right here.

This is great. Wow. Okay. Well, there you go. This turned into a what you heard of monster. Well, that was good. Good times. And there you go, dude, he took it.

And, you know, in this case, the Nina Simone song was much better than the Peace Orchestra song. But, all right. Man, that was beautiful. That was gorgeous. Yeah, I'm up to say, 1968, Nina Simone and piano. That's from that record. Wow, dude.

holy moly those lyrics dude um okay so first of all what a perfect song for the matrix right who am i right that's kind of the whole point of the matrix is like questioning your existence right but i love that you know those lyrics are actually perfect too uh beyond just the who am i part of that just her what she's singing about like how did i become this you know is it it's all part of a plan uh anyway all right go listen to nina simone everybody um All right. So that was Peace Orchestra Q. Glad we were able to sprinkle in some down tempo. You know what? I'm sure.

Now, we're bringing down tempo tracks here and there during what you heard. Definitely electronic stuff. We do all the time. That's true. Not so much down tempo. But I, for sure, am bringing at least one really great track coming up for our end of year episodes that, I mean, in their mind, it's not down tempo. It's just electronic, but it's awesome. So we'll at least have some more electronic music coming your way at the end of the year. How's your list coming, Jeff?

You know, Q. You got to get on it, brother. No, I've started a list. But what I'm going to have to do is go through my what you heard from this year because I've played a lot of brand new tracks for what you heard. So I think we're going to be hearing a lot of repeat artists, you know. But no, I've got a list. I just need to hone it. You know, I need to start crafting it.

I'm really excited to bring some of these songs. There's been a lot of great new releases this year. It's going to be hard to woodlet down. Dude, I just, so there's a song that dropped yesterday by a band that is pretty new. That's going to blow you away, man. I'm excited. All right. I hope I haven't heard it yet.

Well, you know what? We're kind of jump with the gun because this is probably going to get released in September. This one we're recording right now. So we'll have a couple more months to go before we drop. drop our favorites of the year. We are, but, you know, just to give you a little peek behind the curtain, I think we're going to record our year-end episodes a little bit earlier than we usually do this year. Yeah, Dad, I'm going to be like, I'm going to be living the bachelor life for like a week.

Sarah's flying down with Ronan to surprise her mom for her birthday, so I've got the, I'm going to have the place to myself. We're going to record some episodes, dude. We're going to knock him out. Yeah. But here's what's going to happen, dude, because this always happens, especially if we're, There's going to be like a month or so. It's left in the year.

There's going to be some amazing record that comes out. Here's what I was thinking, brother. In December. I say we just record like maybe two. Okay. And that way we still have two more that we can do recording properly at the end of the year just in case there's an amazing record that drops in like November or something.

Yeah. There you go. Fair enough. All right, Q, well, thanks for listening as always out there. You can find this on Instagram. If you want to reach out to us, tell us what you've been listening to. If we like what you recommend to us, we might give you a shout out and have you as the outro track on our next, what you heard, episode. And, yeah, also find us, as always, on the Pantheon podcast network.

It's pantheonpodcast.com. And I'm going to let Nina Simone just sort of blow us away with this song, Who Am I? I was going to pick it up where we're going to. left off. Yeah, that'll do it. We'll see you guys in, I don't know, a couple weeks-ish for the next, what-jared episode. Thanks for listening again. My name is Travis. And I'm Quinn. You all take care. Someday I'll die. Will I ever live again as a mountain lion or a rooster, a hen robin or a rent. or a fly

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