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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Limited Edition release of Emotional Research on Magnetic Tape Cassette. Recorded to 40 minute tape, this cassette features an eight minute-long cassette-only bonus track entitled Yesterday, recorded by Parker in the forests of Washington State.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Emotional Research via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    Get all 17 David Parker releases available on Bandcamp and save 15%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Every Song for Palestine, Emotional Research, Witches' Butter, Witches' Butter (Michael C. Duguay Fourth World Remix), A Murder of Crows at Dawn, The Emerald Sea, every day life, Two Cover Songs, and 9 more. , and , .

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It's Been a While 03:44
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2.
Magic Erase Tape 07:05
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Waiting for You 05:42
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At the Seawall 05:27
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Last Spot Hope Dreams 10:44
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about

Emotional Research is a new album of music by David Parker, Del Stephen, and Liam Cole. Appearing for the first time together, the trio recorded these improvised takes live off the floor in Cole’s living room in the Fall of 2021. The album, which consists of five songs spanning 30 minutes, was produced by Parker and released on a limited run of 8 cassettes on October 2nd, 2023.

The songs reach into new fields of exploration for the performers, ranging from entirely acoustic performances for piano and classical guitar on It’s Been a While, to melodic vocal mantras on Waiting for You, to epic post-rock workouts like on album closer Last Spot Hope Dreams.

The title of the album is a reference to an idea that runs through many of Parker’s improvising collaborations: that composing and performing music can be a way to unlock emotions that tend to be stifled and suppressed as a result of toxic masculinity, down-playing emotional expression at the cost of vibrancy and fullness. The performers, recording and composing in the moment, are made vulnerable and are subject to the tenderness of a shared and intuitive emotional catharsis, display, and performance. These 5 songs are each tender moments, attempts to unearth a lifetime of feeling buried beneath the surface of everyday-ness.

Emotional Research is part 4 of a 7-part series entitled Music V Capitalism, a series of releases by Parker and friends that ask, can abstract art be political? By making art or taking it in as a listener, can we exist momentarily outside of capitalism? What does it mean and how does it feel to put down the constraining experiences of a culture and society built on oppression and exploitation? Can we exist outside of these constraints? Can we be really free, liberated, and self-actualized within a healing community beyond the binds of domination and control?

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released October 30, 2023

David Parker - guitar, voice, percussion
Del Stephen - synths, piano, guitar
Liam Cole - drums

Mix, production, design - David Parker.

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