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Language Barrier

by Mikel Rouse

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    releases May 31, 2024

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    One of the most innovative composers of his generation, Mikel Rouse is known for a trilogy of operas that includes Dennis Cleveland and a gift for superimposing pop vernaculars onto avant-garde music. This memoir channels Rouse’s high energy personality into an exuberant account of the precarity and pleasures of artistic creation. Raconteur and starving artist, witty observer and acclaimed musician, Rouse emerged from the legendary art world of 1980s New York to build a forty-year career defined by stage and musical successes, inexhaustible creativity, and a support network of famous faces, loyal allies, and high-art hustlers. Rouse guides readers through a working artists’ hardscrabble life while illuminating the unromantic truth that a project’s reception may depend on a talented cast and crew but can depend on reliable air conditioning.
    Candid and hilarious, The World Got Away is a one-of-a-kind account of a creative life fueled by talent, work, and luck.
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Conditions Apply
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DOUBLING TIME (Gimme the ozone Gimme the ozone) Signal to noise (Gimme the poses In the ozone time) Think: girls and boys (Trickle down to the merits Of the nowhere climb) Like what you see (When the body says no The body never go back) Which one is me? And now… (Take a round 1 Circle in the sound son Bring about a new time frame An eagle eye won) We can’t be right (Round 2 Give a shout out Even in the brown out Of everything you Never wanted to be about It’s about done) Groomsman the bridesmaid Color me Hit Parade Partners in the air raid Dating the Medicaid I won’t say what you want me to say I remember like it was yesterday I don’t need a visa to talk to you I don’t need your permission I miss mystery Deep inside of me Where the signal flows The me no one knows I can be the one-man show As every bathroom’s taking votes The doubling time that passes go I won’t see the light In this destiny I won’t even out Even if it kills me I will miss the guiding light Of hope and minor oversight I hope you like your world I knew before Love Picasso I knew before Before I knew you (Gimme the ozone Gimme the ozone) I don’t need you (Gimme the poses In the ozone time) To tell me what’s right (Trickle down to the merits Of the nowhere climb) I knew before (When the body says no The body never go back) Before you were born And now… (Take a round 1 Circle in the sound son Bring about a new time frame An eagle eye won) Some call this true (Round 2 Give a shout out Even in the brown out Of everything you Never wanted to be about It’s about done)
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Honey Go Landslide
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Hot Desking
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Left Alone
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Love Life
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Maestro
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Mofo Mojo
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RUN FOR HER LIFE A Seagrams split All day every day Black and tan sunset Stop that guitar of regret Plymouth be it let And never forget The last time you met When you take the Ildiko When you take the Ildiko When you take the Ildiko She don’t carry cash And carry keep off Natures path And baby’s happy Happy with that And sunny stains the bed And the curtains bled What the Bible said The Bible said She don’t say why She don’t sleep twice I can carry the cash And the Vice I am buried In the Marais In the rubble Of day to day Oh oh oh oh She’s the one Oh oh oh oh She’s the one What I care to see Keeps me company Black and tan sunset Tudor House from Idaho The you and me I know I can be the one She can be the be On the road to oblivion Where everything I see Reminds me of you Reminds me Take the shot Take the shot To have not had not The worlds on fire The wonder for hire
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Sportswashing

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Language Barrier is a simultaneous release with the University of Illinois Press publication of "The World Got Away", Mikel Rouse's memoir. The recording utilizes samples from the 1960s era Maestro Rhythm King Mark 1 Drum Machine, A thing of beauty that I learned about from composer and sax player Ellery Eskelin. The album was recorded between May 2021 and August 2022.

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releases May 31, 2024

Written, produced and recorded by Mikel Rouse
Recorded at Center of the Earth, NYC
Mastered by Matt Agoglia at The Ranch Mastering
Mikel Rouse: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Prepared Piano samples, Programming and Sampling
Ildiko Juhasz: Vocals on Left Alone
Joel Seasal: Trumpet
Evan Lee, Shawn Sale: Violins
Barbara Craig: Viola
John Gaze: Cello

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Mikel Rouse New York, New York

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more

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