something useful, by Garfunkle

something useful

by Garfunkle

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vocal versions on side A, instrumentals on side B

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1.	natural 01:52 video	buy track
2.	pouring from the sky 02:26	buy track
3.	waste it on something useful (feat. Alaska) 02:31	buy track
4.	a watched pot (feat. Love, Ulysses) 02:10	buy track
5.	static in the signal 01:32	buy track
6.	long night (feat. Smoove Jazz) 01:28	buy track
7.	curtain call (feat. Nappy Nina) 02:01	buy track

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The man said: "Next time when he get it, he'll waste it on something useful"

I tend to spell my name in lowercase, but the line resonates.

We've got some time here, it seems, and so we might as well waste it on something useful. Zenios and I decided, among other things, to waste it on this project.

Waste it on something useful, trying to get this body, spirit, and mind right... Lord knows what the hell I’m doing but I’m still doing it... Steady sowing with no thoughts of reaping, deep inside fertile soil... As natural as breathing in and out

That’s the abridged version. A full listen will reveal even more packed into these seven tracks.

Many, many thanks to Alaska, Love, Ulysses, and Nappy Nina (and to the mysterious Smoove Jazz) for their features on this, to C Money Burns for getting it sounding so damn crispy, and to Livia Xandersmith for the mind-blowing cover.

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released April 2, 2024

All songs produced by Zenios (zenios.bandcamp.com)
Additional production by garfunkle on “Natural” and “Long Night”
All lyrics by garfunkle except for the feature verses written by the respective performers

Alaska: thatrapperalaska.bandcamp.com (@alaska_atoms on twitter)
Love, Ulysses: loveulysses.bandcamp.com (@loveulysses651 on IG)
Nappy Nina: nappynina.bandcamp.com (@nappy_nina on IG)

Recorded between August 2022 and July 2023
Cover art by Livia Xandersmith (Liviaxandersmith.com; @liviaxandersmith.art on IG)
Mastered by C Money Burns at Cosmic Black, Portland, ME (@cmoneyburns on twitter)

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Garfunkle Chapel Hill, North Carolina

A keyboard player, mc, and producer raised on hip-hop with a love of jazz. Working at it, infatuated with the music and the process since learning how to record to a cassette.

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