January 31, 2006

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  Zaireeka Party
  (no drugs)
  
  Saturday, February 4
  9:30pm - 12:00am
  The Reserve
  405.640.8366
  
  There will be blankets, pillows, colored lights, and a couple of hookahs. We're going to listen to Zaireeka. Afterwards we're probably going to stand around and talk for a while, or dance if anyone wants to. Or we could play catchphrase or something. If you're reading this, you're invited.
  
  Get here at 9:30
  Music starts promptly at 10:00
  
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  WARNING: This is a unique recording. These eight compositions are to be played using as many as four compact disc players, and have synchronized start times. This recording also contains frequencies not normally heard on commercial recordings and on rare occasion has caused the listener to become disoriented.
  
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  Alternately glorious, breathtaking, exciting, fragile and ultimately frightening. An intense vision realised in the true rich Flaming Lips tradition but eschewing the guitar pyrotechnics of the past for an altogether more atmospheric (and ultimately more stunning) arsenal that leads, truly, to a step beyond. Wayne explains that he was, ".. bored of people being able to point at a part of a song and say, 'Well, that's a Nirvana influence and there's the Stooges,' and all that.." So he made a record that comes on four CDs to be played simultaneously.
  
  Do not think of ZAIREEKA as an audiophile recording by any means. This is truly an experiment, where the result of music in and out of phase can create disorientation and confusion in the listener. You see, 4 CD players, no matter if they are the same brand, will not play at exactly the same speed. This shift alone makes ZAIREEKA most intoxicating. This experiment works. Dig it.
  
  

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