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The Wind-up Birds - When the phone rang Stolen 4:00 10-cent 3:37 American Boys 4:10 Hey Texas 3:16 Blank Memory 3:15 Promise Me 4:40 This War 0:33 What You Is 4:11 How We Began 4:25 This War (dub version) 3:37 Crazy as a Loon 3:30     Click here to download entire record as a .zip file Recorded February 2008, Allston, MA.

The Wind-up Birds are:

Janelle Randazza: vocals, words, melodies, some rhythmic guitar
Nick Szydlowski: vocals, words, melodic mix-ups, master-minding, guitar, rhythms, etc., etc., et. al
Jack Tarr: banjo, music smarts
Wendy Mittlestadt: four-stringed savior - click here for Wendy's website

All songs copyright Janelle Randaza except Blank Memory and Crazy as a Loon, copyright Nick Szydlowski, and What You Is Copyright Jack Tar. All songs copyright 2008.

This record was recorded as part of the 2008 RPM Challenge. All of the records in the challenge were recorded and mixed entirely in the month of February, and you can hear all of them for free via the RPM Jukebox. There's a lot of music in there, so it's definitely worth a look.

Left click on the title to stream each song, right click or cmd-click (mac) to download it to your computer. To download the whole record, click on the link for the .zip file. Double-click the file to decompress it, drag the files into your music player and enjoy. While you're here, check out these other fine records!
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Nick Szydlowski - Sometimes a job is all you get	Hotel Universe - Class
Hotel Universe - Who we are is not who we think we are	Nick Szydlowski - Out Alone Late
Sampler of older HU and NS music