Cats With Brains by BipTunia

Run Time: 57 Minutes
Street Date: November 26, 2024.

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TRACK LIST:
1. A Murder of Asteroids
2. A Funeral in Space
3. A Shoal of Asteroids
4. Computers Are an Interesting Mix of Science and Voodoo
5. Universal Stellar Distribution

All instruments by Michael W. Dean except:

CREDITS
Guitars on all songs, plus drone synth on “A Shoal of Asteroids”: J. Robert Cahoots. His parts recorded in 1995 the day after Jerry Garcia died. Recorded on a 4-track Tascam Portastudio.

Thessalonius B. Porkchomp, Esq. played Korg Triton and Moog Voyager synth drones on “Universal Stellar Distribution.”

CONCEPT
This is an instrumental concept album about the trials and triumphs of multi-generational interstellar space travel.

The story is in the music, but also in the song titles. You listen and tell US what the story is!

TUNING
None of this album is microtonal, thought it does intentionally swim in and out of tune some places, just to make some groovy beating.

ARTWORK
Cover designed in Grok AI by Michael W. Dean. Is a bit of an homage to the gatefold art of Led Zeppelin’s Presence:

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Run Time: 106 Minutes
Street Date: November 5, 2024.

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TRACK LIST:
1. Photographing the Dust on the Fabric of the Universe
2. Increasing Local Hole Voids in the Otherwise Isotropic
3. Little Sombrero Galaxy Theme Song
4. Swimmin’ in the Tadpole Nebula

None of this album is microtonal.

All instruments, songs, production, and mastering, and cover photo of NGC 1333 by Michael W. Dean. Full tech details of photo here.

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Run Time: 97 Minutes
Street Date: October 20, 2024. LISTEN:

TRACK LIST:
1. The Sun is So Familiar
2. Jay Ess Bachanalian
3. Sacrificial Anode On My Heart
4. The Dearth of the Cool
5. Dirt Lead Stampede
6. Jay Ess Xenanalian

Microtonal tracks: Track 4 (22 TET / 12 TET), Track 6 (Bohlen-Pierce)

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Run Time: 71 Minutes
Street Date: October 4, 2024. LISTEN:
Primordial Soup is Good Food by BipTunia

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TRACK LIST:
1. Fanfare for the Globalist Reeducation Camps
2. Expectations Are Appointments with Resentments
3. Primordial Soup is Good Food
4. The Age of Trilobites
5. Prunella Modularis III

Only track 4 is microtonal. (17 TET)

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Run Time: 74 Minutes
Street Date: August 30, 2024

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All instruments, songs, production, and mastering by Michael W. Dean.

None of this album is microtonal.

The first song is influenced by Helios Creed and is a bit of a tribute to his music.

The title “She Recoiled Diesel Chore Chiseled Roe” is an anagram for “Helios Creed Helios Creed Helios Creed.”

TRACK LIST:
1. She Recoiled Diesel Chore Chiseled Roe
2. Agnostic is the Most Scientific Position on Religion
3. Glassy Greasy Granular Onion Rings with the Vicar
4. So Many Fucking Stars, How Can We Possibly Be Alone?
5. Get into the Resurrection Canon
6. I Dig Your Moonly Ways
7. Leave your Cages Behind

FUN FACT: “So Many Fucking Stars, How Can We Possibly Be Alone?” is the first time in 92 albums that BipTunia has had cussin’….and it’s in both the title and lyrics.

Usually this stuff is instrumental, and when words, radio friendly. Just for fucking fun.)

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RUN TIME: 63 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: July 23, 2024

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All instruments, songs, production, and mastering by Michael W. Dean.

…Except Cave chanting on Release the Artisanal Tardigrades by Sir Michael Higgins and a bipedal ape with a bad hip. And…

The Shoulder Thing That Goes Up has a bit of talking from a cool guy and a horrible woman. She used to have power, but now is back to yelling at strangers on the street, probably.

TRACK LIST:
1. Dord Density of Solid Metallic Hydrogen
2. Xenochrony My Xenochronous Xenochrony, All Night Long
3. The Shoulder Thing That Goes Up
4. Pentatonic Phrygian Open-Eye Visuals
5. Therac-25 Malfunction 54 in Eagle 53
6. Release the Artisanal Tardigrades
7. 56,000 Distant Suns Photographed from Our Farm Paddock

These songs are microtonal:

• Therac-25 Malfunction 54 in Eagle 53 (John O’Sullivan, Eagle 53 temperament)
• Pentatonic Phrygian Open-Eye Visuals (phryg penta: Schlesinger’s Phrygian Harmonia in the pentachromatic genus)

The rest are in standard 12-TET. However…..These are Xenochronous (Zappa’s technique of using intact parts from other songs in new songs):

• Dord Density of Solid Metallic Hydrogen
• Xenochrony My Xenochronous Xenochrony All Night Long
• 56,000 Distant Suns Photographed from Our Farm Paddock

I used parts from the BipTunia songs But you don’t look Sick, Marc Sporkolova, and I’m a Lone, Broke Cowpoke From Biptunia’s 27th album, and the song A Prominent Albedo Feature on Mars from BipTunia’s albums 53-54. I combined different synth lines and bass lines from different songs, but also wrote new parts around and on top of them.

ABOUT THE ALBUM COVER

Cover is a photo by Michael W. Dean of the Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan, and a bunch of distant tiny (to us) galaxies. More info and tech specs here.

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Chill Beats to Relax and Pet Cats to by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 73 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: Feb 5, 2024

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All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean. Cover is our two kitten siblings, Bort and Bella, 2 years ago when we first got them from the shelter.

TRACK LIST:
1. Voices in the Forest at Night
2. Vanquished Vanished Vintage Vantage
3. Flerfs All Over the Globe
4. Cat Singing About a Macedonian Bagpipe
5. Drunken Virtuoso
6. Chill Beats to Relax and Breed Cats to
7. Acid in 1952

MICROTONAL TUNINGS: Cat Singing About a Macedonian Bagpipe (Partch 41 and Macedonian Bagpipe, + 12 TET)

All songs are instrumental except songs 1 and 4. Both have the same robo-lyrics. The lyrics are:

The way the cats are good,
we like cats
cats are nifty.

Wonder cats are good,
cats to pet all day.
The wonder of cats cannot be paralleled.
The disco cats have returned.
We will dance to the wonder of the cats!

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Brain of Patient Treated With Methylene Blue by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 88 Minutes
RELEASE DATE: April 7, 2024

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TRACK LIST:
1. Shriven Brain Shavings
2. Brain of Patient Treated with Methylene Blue
3. Cretaceous Soundtrack Leaving Up to KT Extinction
4. Wedding Invitation from the Robots

All songs on this release are instrumental. None are microtonal.

ABOUT THE ALBUM COVER
“Gross Pathology of Normal Brain vs Brain of Patient Treated With Methylene Blue Before Death”, medical photo by Mikael Häggström, M.D. Image is public domain. Is half of this image on Wikipedia (whole image has whole brain, not just slices).

This photo is the album cover because it speaks to me. I saw it and was fascinated by it.

I didn’t use it for the gross-out factor, I don’t find it gross. I don’t like it when bands use gross or shocking imagery. I love the Butthole Surfers but didn’t like when I saw them live and they were showing graphic images of eyeball surgery on a big screen behind them. That seemed like shock for its own sake.

This blue brain and sliced blue brain medical photo isn’t shocking to me. It just speaks to me of what is the mind vs what is the brain, and what are we? Are we this little 3-pound universe that doesn’t look much different than our intestines, but is a powerful supercomputer made from the result of digesting food.

Is that us?

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Microtonal Loud Rock Synth Pop Ambient Symphonic Delight by BipTunia
RUN TIME: 73 Minutes.
RELEASE DATE: Dec 20, 2023

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All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean.

Cover art includes some astrophotography I did of the Pleiades / Messier 45.

MICROTONAL TUNINGS:

Low-Speed Stampede (19 TET)

Meridian Flip Out (mohajira-to-slendro. From Mohajira to Aeolian and Slendros)

Liminal Space Ape with Baritone Sax (fortuna a2…Clem Fortuna, Arabic mode of 24-TET)

Sheep Chalk Scarlet Letter (chargah pentachord 7 limit,
elfkeenanismic7 aka Keenanismic tempered [8/7, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 8/5, 7/4,
2] = cross_7, 284et tuning)

Octopus Motor is Missing (Lydian Diatonic)

Photographing the Dust on the Fabric of the Universe (ED2-30 aka 30 EDO)

I’ll Be Your Guide Star (12 TET, not microtonal)

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Country Trailer Love Song by Michael W. Dean and Greg Dale

CREDITS:

Michael W. Dean: Concept, words and music.
Lead vocal on “trailer” part, harmony vocal on first part. Piano, electric piano, organ, bass guitar, drums, Taurus bass, incidental electric guitar on “Iggy Pop” chord and 3 harmony notes at very end. Chimes (just 4 places in song.)

Michael did recording / engineering on Michael’s parts, plus final mixing and mastering.

Greg Dale: Words and Music.
Electric and acoustic guitars. Lead vocal on first part, harmony vocal on “trailer” part.

Greg did recording / engineering on Greg’s parts.