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Pulmonary Pullulations

by Ethan Marks

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Crystalline Heart 03:43
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2.
Pieceful Heart 03:25
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Torn-Up Heart 03:19
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Emailed Heart 03:41
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Discretion Heart 04:25
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Perpetual Heart 04:35
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Soulless Heart 04:21
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Soulful Heart 03:58
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Mixed-Metaphor Heart 03:50
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Weary Heart 04:20
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You-Can't-Escape Heart 04:18
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12.
Heart Heart 02:29
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Pulmonary Pullulations

In his third attempt to explain holidays in song, Ethan Marks tackles that most coronary of days: the one of Valentine. Unlike “Xmas 2” and “Fourth of Ju-Why?”, his first and second serrated stabs, “Pulmonary Pullulations” is sterile and surgical. It slices, taking you, the listener, on an anatomical dive into the body’s blood box to try and finally answer the time immemorial question:

Why does love feel how it does?

Into the blood we go. What are these blood pumps and why do they pump that blood? What could these elevators of blood possibly be made of that allows them to pump, break, tick, gush, flutter, yearn, be on fire, frozen, bored, poured, torn, worn? Some people say they’re made of gold, stone, glass, paper, metals other than gold, diamond. They (the blood bags, not the people who said those things) can be changed, have a bottom, be faint, have a hole, be young, have a beat that sometimes skips, be accessed through the stomach, be bypassed.

Despite or perhaps because of this, these chaos organs churn up love. That most-mixed of metaphors. What more about love could possibly be said, written, thought, whispered, thought and accidentally said aloud, screamed, sung, faked, made fun of, forced, inspired, denied, fallen hopelessly into, fallen regardlessly outof?

In order to find an answer, we must dissect the hearts…

This coronary compendium boils down all of the possible heartache and heartjoy and heartapathy into twelve mother-blood-sauces. At last, hearts and the love that they bleed are quantified, qualified, and easy to digest (with only minor risk of heartburn).

Happy V Day.

I love you.

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released February 14, 2020

Special thanks to Blondie, Janis Joplin, NSYNC, Britney Spears, Joy Division, Hoagy Carmichael, Elton John, Celine Dion and the movie "Titanic", All American Rejects, Ryan Bingham and the movie "Crazyheart", Phil Collins and the movie "Tarzan", the Four Aces,

and, as always, Bryan Shaban.

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Ethan Marks Los Angeles, California

Ethan Marks is an experimental trumpet player and producer in LA. He is interested in the collision between body and instrument, the instrument-as-interface, and the physical manifestations of sound. His work is usually improvised, is sometimes silly, and has involved sundry preparations like feedback, video, noise, household objects, power tools, and plundered recordings. ... more

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