I can’t
quite decide whether Ernst Halft is a first and last name artist or a
description, such as someone would say your spouse is your better half and then
you would imply “Ernst” as being earnest, such as honest. In either case, I am very much enjoying the
diversity on this cassette as it feels almost like a trip around the world
somehow.
What
opens with the sound of crickets (Actual cricket sounds like you’d hear on a
summer’s night, not crickets in the sense of the standup comedian who bombs)
turns into something like ducks and then eventually takes on this Samurai
Jack/Kung Fu Panda sort of vibe that I’m really digging on.
Strange
vocal bits come out and I feel like they’re talking about Jesus, but my lack of
finishing Catholic School leaves me uncertain.
(Curse you, public school system!)
There are rattlesnakes, talk of
911 (the emergency number, not the date) and Darth Vader sounds as well, which
just means we’re going from one strange bit to the next but it’s keeping me
entertained.
Through
some random audio clips now, we enter a bit of singing and snapping before tribal
type drum rhythms eventually take us home.
Obviously the drums could be from somewhere like Africa, but with the
audio clips of a.d.d. sort all I can think of is the Tower of Babel (either
because of the movie or because of what I think is the earlier Jesus mention),
and so I’m just thinking of that whole notion of it being a small world after
all, kind of like the Disney ride but a whole lot less terrifying.
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