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When We Walked With Glossotherium

from An Unexpected Turn by Chris Harris

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One of the genres created by the FiftyNinety community is slothcore, the invention of @candle, a.k.a. Darby Spicer. It's very slow (20 to 40 bpm) and dirty, with occasional pauses for sloth-like naps. I *love* slothcore as a genre and record at least one track in this style every year.

I also love Arturia's emulation of the classic Vocoder, so I used it on the vocals here.

And when I wrote this, I had been reading a sloth-related archaeological paper. Analysis of debris found at the Santa Elina rock shelter in Central Brazil showed that its earliest inhabitants adorned their clothing with vertebrae from (yes, you guessed it) the giant ground sloth, Glossotherium Phoenesis. This pushes the earliest presence of humans in South America back to 25,000 BCE, well before such megafauna went extinct. Which is interesting, as the standard account of humans moving into the Americas only starts at around 15,000 BCE...

And short-faced bears were a real thing. They made grizzly bears look puny and believe me, you should be very glad that they're extinct.

doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0316

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We came across the Bering Strait
Dodging short-faced bears
Left the cold of dark Siberia
(We didn't like it there)

Once we started moving
We kept on down the coast
Not in search of Earthly paradise
just where we liked the most

The place we finally settled
Was one we had to share
With giants living on the ground
Whose bones our ancestors would wear

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from An Unexpected Turn, released November 30, 2023

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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