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    Signed cover and disc of Scatter My Ashes. Comes in a 6-panel gatefold digipack card case including bios of the musicians, song lyrics, liner notes with artwork by Ben Swift and photography by Ken Goodman.

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This song is from "Moving in to an Empty Space," a three part song cycle
from poems by Sue Susman

lyrics

Hot time
this summer in the city
in the artificial light of the street.
At night people scurry and run together in packs.
Too many rats in the cage.
Running towards something in the distance,
in the dark;
something hidden from sight,
something they cannot name.
They come here to hunt and groan
in hot dark rooms filled with sweating, hungry bodies,
dancing with fever into the morning.
And as the music blasts into flashing strobe-lights,
the walls begin to swell and breathe.
There are bodies on the street tonight,
each with its own hidden secret.
You can choose one to take home with you.
You can go on alone.
You can help yourself.
Steal into the night. No one can find you.
You become invisible in the dark,
invisible to others who may want to hurt you;
invisible even to yourself.

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from Scatter My Ashes, released August 5, 2022

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William Susman San Francisco, California

William Susman is a composer and pianist.

His music has earned praise from Gramophone as “texturally shimmering and harmonically ravishing,” from Fanfare, "crystalline . . . and gloriously lyrical,” and The New York Times, “vivid, turbulent, and rich-textured.” Textura describes Susman as “not averse to letting his affection for Afro-Cuban, jazz, and other forms seep into his creative output.” ... more

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