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Paul Burnett There's not enough I can say about this song. I was doing schoolwork while listening to this album and when Ninjas Can't Catch You If You're On Fire came on I had to stop to listen lol Favorite track: Ninjas Can't Catch You If You're On Fire.
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Lyrics by Marty the Martian In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue... In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue... Yelling "look what i can do, look what I can do!" We all the know the story -- From that day forward The idea of movement conjoined with the thought of glory Every time we moved, we fought till gory We stopped for nothing -- stop is boring And so we never stopped adoring The thought that just around the corner Is the land of prosper That’s adverse to foster, freeze for a moment And sip from the straw first See the liquid of truth travel to the jaw It’s tough to chew on, we turned starboards to star bursts The right side of the ship is a trip stripped of the physical, Not literal -- it’s a movement intrinsic The world isn’t round, it’s cylindrical A tube of ideas -- the force centripetal We move, these new ideas, they do not Stop to think Got to think The brave new frontier on the logic brink We’ll start moving forward when our daughters drink From a thought process, not a hot topic The answers are out there But turn inside to find them A certain kind of blind man Will lead the way He tells those street-seeking they should stop looking, And start searching In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue... In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue... In 2022 we’ll also take a journey Without needing to leave -- So breathe! Let’s start the learning, And maybe see the stars are turning. Let’s start the Journey…
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The River 05:28
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Lyrics by Nick Valentini Whether you know by now (Oh do I) That imitation hangs to everything in doubt That feeling you’ll get when you figure out That everything you do is for me to talk about Why do I feel so far away When trouble wanes? I should have settled down knowing now That everything I do is used to put me down I’ve tried my best to tell you I will help you out I don’t know why I can’t explain I am afraid Will you please turn around for awhile? Decisions made without the world to tell us how...
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Lyrics by Marty the Martian Welcome to the space ship With your permission, let me transmit on this Nate shit See, life’s a mirror, and I wonder -- will you face it? It gets clearer, just depends the way you place it, which way you got it facing See since you were born, they told you to reflect on yourself Take your conscience and percept on yourself Are you self-conscious? Good, so is everyone else The poor me mentality plays right to the wealth Now these “I’m Self-Important” types have sorted all the normal guys, Imported more of poorer types -- they’re running the shelf They’re snorting up assembly lines and shortening the belt They want to help US, but the S is a dollar sign It’s all about you and the money they can make from you Well, uh -- take from you… I’m on break at a home depot thinking ‘bout a house I’m gonna break into Look what they made us do… Are you a type A person? Or a “might say” person? A right-way person, the right-shade person, the hides face, hides hate, just might stay hurting? All the world’s a stage with a thick shay curtain And we’re stuck here to interpret just a big vague blur, but All we hear are words, but we don’t see the faces They don’t see the worry -- here we are faced with Generation Y? Well that’s the question And X don’t got the answer so we’d better get to guessing Are we Generation Try? Next in succession? Just because the sets are switching doesn’t mean progression… I mean, Generation Die? Who’s gonna push the button? By the time we’re president, they’ll probably push a dozen We’re tired of pushing daisies the doctors prescribe us daily Not only are we restless -- you guessed it -- we’re fucking crazy! The world can’t revolve without revolutions The youth can’t evolve without retribution We stayed committed to this constitution, but The Forefathers are before us -- they don’t have the solutions Stop placing faith in the past to solve the future Everyone’s gassed, we’re riding on a scooter 3-2-1 blast off -- blast it, we can’t breathe through this plastic Situation drastic See, our last hope is wearing a backpack full of matches He’s a nervous act in a class full of actors He burns them with passions And our actions will happen and fall into ashes -- And from that a phoenix will rise Let’s follow its flight, its light And explore a frontier from a former demise It won’t be bricks to build a new nation It’s a creation predicated on exploration.

about

“Music does not influence research work, but both are nourished by the same sort of longing, and they complement one another in the release they offer.”

- Albert Einstein

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest, most complicated machine humanity has ever built. Its 17-mile ring tunnels underneath Geneva, Switzerland, and accelerates subatomic particles to 99.9% the speed of light before smashing them into one another. The image you see on the front of this album is a “photograph” of one of these engineered collisions, made by compiling data from the LHC’s ATLAS Experiment’s hundreds of detectors. Ten thousand scientists from over 100 countries have been working at LHC searching for the elusive Higgs Boson -- the particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics that supposedly gives atoms their mass (and consequently enables our existence, and the existence of all that we know).

I think this perfectly captures the complexity of our current moment in time. In the last 100 years, we’ve gone from struggling to get our first plane off the ground to landing on the moon, putting spacecraft in orbit around every other planet in the solar system, building invisible infrastructure that allows us to communicate with each other instantaneously across huge stretches of land & sea, and smashing particles together with so much energy that we just might get a glimpse of our physical reality’s most fundamental nature.

Through scientific inquiry and artistic exploration, we can attempt to make sense of the universe, and possibly learn more about our place in it. We won’t answer all of our big questions in our lifetime, but we have just two options on how to proceed: continue down our current path of making everything easier and cheaper, and engineering a more passive lifestyle for ourselves so we have more time to enjoy the plethora of “things” that we’ll purchase; or do some serious soul-searching and allow our collective imagination and instinctual optimism to conquer our fear of each other and of the unknown, so that we may live peacefully and with dignity as we boldly voyage to strange new worlds.


We can’t solve all the world’s problems, or even our own problems -- but the first step is exploration. So join us in our exploration of mind, of spirit, and of cosmos.


- Nate

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released December 1, 2015

NSJO features the talents of:

Woodwinds:
Michael “Cody” Dear - Alto (2, 4, 6)
Alekos Syropoulos - Alto, Soprano (1, 3, 7, 8, 10)
Ben McPeek - Alto
Hugo Shiboski - Tenor, EWI on 10
Evan Waltmire - Tenor
Liam Collins - Baritone
Nicolo Scolieri - Flute (3)

Trumpets:
Chad Willis (Lead)
Zach Ramacier (Solo)
Tristan Hurd
Jared Keil

Trombones:
Erik Hughes (Lead)
Phil Menchaca
Ruben Mejia
Juliane Gralle - Bass Trombone

Rhythm:
Devin Norris - Piano
Chase Jackson - Vibraphone
Miles McIntosh - Guitar
Logan Kane - Basses
Cedric “Duke” Anderson - Octapad/Aux Percussion
Nick Velez - Drums

Produced by Nate Schwartz
Recorded at Clear Lake Studios, North Hollywood, CA
September 21-22, 2015
Recording Engineer, David Grover
Eli Smith (2nd) and Ivan Rivera (3rd) Assistant Engineers
Mixed by David Grover,
Mystic Mountain Sound, Santa Clarita, CA
Mastered by Morgan Sizer,
Mozu Mastering, New Haven, CT
Artwork by Maddie Beckham
Graphic Design by Hojoon Kim

All songs composed/orchestrated by Nate Schwartz
Lyrics for 1 & 10 by Marty the Martian
Lyrics for 7 by Nick Valentini

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