Misha Bittleston: Vocals, Drum Programming, Keys, Synths, Background Guitar, Effects, String Arrangement, Park Recordings, etc.

Gerardo Giraldo: Acoustic Guitar, Semi-Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar and Bass

Adam Benham: Additional Drums

Recorded, edited and arranged by Misha Bittleston, Dave Ahl, Gerardo Giraldo and Jon Bell at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn.

Mixed by Pablo Arraya at Audio Piranha, Brooklyn, New York

Mastered by Mark Wilder at Battery Mastering Studios, NYC

Design by Sue Walsh

LYRICS:

People layered on people, layered on lives piled, lives piled into sky

People layered on lives piled, lives piled into sky

People layered on lives piled, lives piled into sky

Maybe they are one mile high

These sparkling places

Grew out of a needle park

A graveyard for the poor

A broken windows theory

For every hungry soul

A voice to end a war

The future was here

Majestic crystals built like jewels

Electric beauty the park is lit

Majestic crystals built like jewels

Electric cruelty the park is lit up

By galaxies of lives in the air

By this powerful emptiness

This powerful emptiness

This powerful emptiness

This powerful emptiness

An island in the lie

An island in the lights

We are harsh blaring humans

Against strident calls

We're replacing sticks with stones

We're the unnaturals

We're the unnaturals

We're the unnaturals

We're the unnaturals

We're the unnaturals

We're the unnatural

Built like giants growing lands

That turn a galaxy round and round

A mouth for earth to kiss the sky

The city beats and blares against the scene

The planes above are flying by

To pause between two glittering places

Nature can't lose

Nature can't lose

Nature can't lose

Nature can't lose

Can't lose

Can't lose

In love with air

When in the grass sweet voices talk

And strains of tiny music swell

From every moss cup of the rock

From every nameless blossom's bell*

We're the unnaturals

We're the all naturals

We're the unnaturals

We're the all naturals

We're the unnaturals

We're the all naturals

We're the unnaturals

We're the all naturals

We're the unnaturals

Soft hearts flutter against hard minds

On an island in the lights tonight

I'm drowning in air

Still sleep with a bear

Misha Bittleston: Vocals, Guitar, Vocal Effects, Plastic Drum, Field Recordings and Whistling

Gerardo Giraldo: Electric, Semi-Acoustic, Acoustic and Nylon-String Guitars

David Muller: Bass, Drums and TR-626

Toshi Yano: Casio RZ-1, Moog and OPTIGAN

Recorded by Toshi Yano at Melody Lanes, Brooklyn and by Misha Bittleston at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn, New York.

Arranged and edited by Misha Bittleston and Dave Ahl at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn, with production assistance from: Gerardo Giraldo, Jon Bell and Rafaël Leloup. Production Services by Stepwise Sound LLC.

LYRICS:

You are the thunder under trampolines,

You are a river in the sea,

Just like me you hate TV

You hate complainers just like me

River sponge squeezed tight in octopuses arms

No bodies between us just lovely legs and arms

Holding you is better than hands in Jello

Soft as a cloud irresistible as Ello

I’ll hide you until daylight

I’ll wrap you up tight at night

You’re so close to the sea

That’s how you got close to me

Can you feel me

Can you feel this

Can you feel my lips

Can you feel my kiss?

Can you feel me

Can you feel this

Can you feel my lips

Can you feel my kiss,

Can you feel me?

Can you feel my tentacles?

You’re in a river in the sea

That’s how, you got close to me

For you I feel the thunder under trampolines

Your river got lost in my

river got lost in the sea

That’s how,

you got close to me

Like me you hate TV,

You hate complainers like me,

You put the blame on the blamers

Your self restraint can make you famous

To love you I’d lose my sea identity

I’d let it all go to hold you to me,

People like you hide in the narrow inlets,

You were about as hard to find as it gets,

You hang out where it gets murky,

For you I knew I’d have to get dirty

You're so close to the sea

I wrap you up tight at night

So wet here/You are so close to the sea,

Can we taste our sweat/That’s how you got

close to me

Stuck to the bed on your back

Can you feel how you’re turning

my red blood black?

Do you even feel me?

You’ve come so close to the sea

I don’t feel you feeling me

Is the sea where you want to be?

I’ll hold you in the sea,

deep down

(whistling…)

Misha Bittleston: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Ukulele, Electribe, Vocal/Guitar Effects, Sampler, etc.

Gerardo Giraldo: Acoustic Guitar

David Muller: Hi-Hat, Congas, TR-626 and Bass

Jeremy Kay: Bass

Rafaël Leloup: Piano

Steven Plummer: Electric Guitar

Jon Bell: Additional Guitar and Synth Pad

Recorded in Brooklyn by Toshi Yano and David Muller at Melody Lanes and by Misha Bittleston at Apartment Four The Future.

Edited and arranged by Misha Bittleston, Rafaël Leloup, Gerardo Giraldo and Jon Bell at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn.

LYRICS:

PYGMALION (from Exhibition by Eight Two)

How does she hear

How does she feel

How does she know

What's real

She doesn't sleep

She lives a dream

She doesn't eat

Except ice cream

She's an escape

Honey of hope

She'll throw us a rope

To the stars

She's a space alien

She doesn't know the meaning of man (the only one)

If love's a decision can I shun a collision

With the dangerous body she's on (the only one)

Nine six one eight nine Pygmalion

If I go with her

After the end

With no world to mend

And no bitter end

To defend

But what do I gain

If I go insane

With no wind and rain

To blame

Will life be a lie

A tomb in the sky

Is it better to stay

And die

Love has hope

Love can make me cope (You are going to make me sorry)

Love can get me through (If my mom knew she would worry)

Love has hope

Love can make me cope (You are going to make me sorry)

A rope

Watching the sun go down

There's a way, there's a hope

There's a way, there's a hope

There's a way, there's a hope (When I put my hand)

There's a way, there's a hope (When I put my hand)

There's a way, there's a hope (When I put my hand down her throat)

There's a way, there's a hope (I can feel her heart, I can feel it beat)

There's a way, there's a hope (When I put my hand where)

There's a way (I can feel her heart)

She's a space alien

She doesn't know the meaning of man (anyone)

If love's a decision can I shun a collision

With the dangerous body she's on (the only one)

Nine six one eight nine Pygmalion

Make me blind!

You made me blind

Why do things always go bad

Why do things always go wrong

Why does the government have to mess it up

And go out killing people again

No more killing sprees Mr. President

Let's make love it's more fun...

BAROCK is four Baroque arias arranged for a five piece rock ensemble with modernized lyrics.

Recorded live on March 27 2015 in Brooklyn

Red Love

"Regne, Amour" - Aria from Pigmalion Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Dad

"Schafe Können Sicher Weiden" - Aria from BWV 208 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Lift Her

"Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies" - Aria from Jeptha, HWV 70 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Where You Walk

"Where'er You Walk" - Aria from Semele, HWV 58 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Misha Bittleston: Vocals

Rafaël Leloup: Accordion

Adam Benham: Drums

Jacob Owen: Guitar

Aiden Moore: Bass

Todd Carder: Recording Engineer, The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn

Mark Wilder: Mastering Engineer, Battery Studios, New York

Concept, Lyrics, Production and Artwork by Misha Bittleston

Arrangement and Music Direction by Rafaël Leloup

Project Coordination and Design by Aja Marsh

Very special thanks to Tommy Wazelle for vocal support and Chris Mirto for being there.

After all the years it took to make the last record, I wanted to try an experiment in expediency. Could Eight Two put out a short unpolished record in a matter of weeks or just a few months?

I had felt embarrassed about my love for baroque music, but somehow Jimi helped me make the leap.

I asked my friend Rafaël Leloup to arrange four Baroque arias for rock ensemble, I rewrote the words so I could feel natural singing them as myself. We had two rehearsals in Brooklyn and then we showed up at 10am and recorded, all playing and me singing together, no overdubs.

Playing together was stressful, but emotional and each take was a messy performance. We played music, and in between takes there was some fun and magical improvisation, the energy was that what each of us put in, would be there. I wanted to make the mix as unproduced as possible. No tricks. But not being able to rely on post production to fix and improve things made it a high pressure experience.

Here I was taking a huge leap. Who was I to record these timeless arias? But with Rafaël's arrangements they quickly took shape and we each played the songs in a way that was natural to us as contemporary musicians, the musicality of these compositions on the one side and our rock music sensibility on the other, we walk a fine line.

Why do this project? It is a challenge-- everyone who worked on it felt that.

℗ & © 2015 Electric Diving School/Tenderghost (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Licensed with permission from: Electric Diving School Music. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

BAROCK is four Baroque arias arranged for a five piece rock ensemble with modernized lyrics.

Recorded live on March 27 2015 in Brooklyn

Red Love

"Regne, Amour" - Aria from Pigmalion Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Dad

"Schafe Können Sicher Weiden" - Aria from BWV 208 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Lift Her

"Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies" - Aria from Jeptha, HWV 70 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Where You Walk

"Where'er You Walk" - Aria from Semele, HWV 58 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Misha Bittleston: Vocals

Rafaël Leloup: Accordion

Adam Benham: Drums

Jacob Owen: Guitar

Aiden Moore: Bass

Todd Carder: Recording Engineer, The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn

Mark Wilder: Mastering Engineer, Battery Studios, New York

Concept, Lyrics, Production and Artwork by Misha Bittleston

Arrangement and Music Direction by Rafaël Leloup

Project Coordination and Design by Aja Marsh

Very special thanks to Tommy Wazelle for vocal support and Chris Mirto for being there.

After all the years it took to make the last record, I wanted to try an experiment in expediency. Could Eight Two put out a short unpolished record in a matter of weeks or just a few months?

I had felt embarrassed about my love for baroque music, but somehow Jimi helped me make the leap.

I asked my friend Rafaël Leloup to arrange four Baroque arias for rock ensemble, I rewrote the words so I could feel natural singing them as myself. We had two rehearsals in Brooklyn and then we showed up at 10am and recorded, all playing and me singing together, no overdubs.

Playing together was stressful, but emotional and each take was a messy performance. We played music, and in between takes there was some fun and magical improvisation, the energy was that what each of us put in, would be there. I wanted to make the mix as unproduced as possible. No tricks. But not being able to rely on post production to fix and improve things made it a high pressure experience.

Here I was taking a huge leap. Who was I to record these timeless arias? But with Rafaël's arrangements they quickly took shape and we each played the songs in a way that was natural to us as contemporary musicians, the musicality of these compositions on the one side and our rock music sensibility on the other, we walk a fine line.

Why do this project? It is a challenge-- everyone who worked on it felt that.

℗ & © 2015 Electric Diving School/Tenderghost (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Licensed with permission from: Electric Diving School Music. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

BAROCK is four Baroque arias arranged for a five piece rock ensemble with modernized lyrics.

Recorded live on March 27 2015 in Brooklyn

Red Love

"Regne, Amour" - Aria from Pigmalion Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Dad

"Schafe Können Sicher Weiden" - Aria from BWV 208 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Lift Her

"Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies" - Aria from Jeptha, HWV 70 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Where You Walk

"Where'er You Walk" - Aria from Semele, HWV 58 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Misha Bittleston: Vocals

Rafaël Leloup: Accordion

Adam Benham: Drums

Jacob Owen: Guitar

Aiden Moore: Bass

Todd Carder: Recording Engineer, The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn

Mark Wilder: Mastering Engineer, Battery Studios, New York

Concept, Lyrics, Production and Artwork by Misha Bittleston

Arrangement and Music Direction by Rafaël Leloup

Project Coordination and Design by Aja Marsh

Very special thanks to Tommy Wazelle for vocal support and Chris Mirto for being there.

After all the years it took to make the last record, I wanted to try an experiment in expediency. Could Eight Two put out a short unpolished record in a matter of weeks or just a few months?

I had felt embarrassed about my love for baroque music, but somehow Jimi helped me make the leap.

I asked my friend Rafaël Leloup to arrange four Baroque arias for rock ensemble, I rewrote the words so I could feel natural singing them as myself. We had two rehearsals in Brooklyn and then we showed up at 10am and recorded, all playing and me singing together, no overdubs.

Playing together was stressful, but emotional and each take was a messy performance. We played music, and in between takes there was some fun and magical improvisation, the energy was that what each of us put in, would be there. I wanted to make the mix as unproduced as possible. No tricks. But not being able to rely on post production to fix and improve things made it a high pressure experience.

Here I was taking a huge leap. Who was I to record these timeless arias? But with Rafaël's arrangements they quickly took shape and we each played the songs in a way that was natural to us as contemporary musicians, the musicality of these compositions on the one side and our rock music sensibility on the other, we walk a fine line.

Why do this project? It is a challenge-- everyone who worked on it felt that.

℗ & © 2015 Electric Diving School/Tenderghost (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Licensed with permission from: Electric Diving School Music. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

BAROCK is four Baroque arias arranged for a five piece rock ensemble with modernized lyrics.

Recorded live on March 27 2015 in Brooklyn

Red Love

"Regne, Amour" - Aria from Pigmalion Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)

Dad

"Schafe Können Sicher Weiden" - Aria from BWV 208 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Lift Her

"Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies" - Aria from Jeptha, HWV 70 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Where You Walk

"Where'er You Walk" - Aria from Semele, HWV 58 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Misha Bittleston: Vocals

Rafaël Leloup: Accordion

Adam Benham: Drums

Jacob Owen: Guitar

Aiden Moore: Bass

Todd Carder: Recording Engineer, The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn

Mark Wilder: Mastering Engineer, Battery Studios, New York

Concept, Lyrics, Production and Artwork by Misha Bittleston

Arrangement and Music Direction by Rafaël Leloup

Project Coordination and Design by Aja Marsh

Very special thanks to Tommy Wazelle for vocal support and Chris Mirto for being there.

After all the years it took to make the last record, I wanted to try an experiment in expediency. Could Eight Two put out a short unpolished record in a matter of weeks or just a few months?

I had felt embarrassed about my love for baroque music, but somehow Jimi helped me make the leap.

I asked my friend Rafaël Leloup to arrange four Baroque arias for rock ensemble, I rewrote the words so I could feel natural singing them as myself. We had two rehearsals in Brooklyn and then we showed up at 10am and recorded, all playing and me singing together, no overdubs.

Playing together was stressful, but emotional and each take was a messy performance. We played music, and in between takes there was some fun and magical improvisation, the energy was that what each of us put in, would be there. I wanted to make the mix as unproduced as possible. No tricks. But not being able to rely on post production to fix and improve things made it a high pressure experience.

Here I was taking a huge leap. Who was I to record these timeless arias? But with Rafaël's arrangements they quickly took shape and we each played the songs in a way that was natural to us as contemporary musicians, the musicality of these compositions on the one side and our rock music sensibility on the other, we walk a fine line.

Why do this project? It is a challenge-- everyone who worked on it felt that.

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LYRICS:

Sheep may safely graze serenely

Where a farmer guards them well

Children safely grow strong and free

Kids grow up knowing who to be

Dad beside them where they fell

Where their fathers guard them well

So a nation run with wisdom

Knows and shares the elevation

Which both peace and plenty brings

So a nation run in wisdom

Knows it shares the same foundation

Many blessings, knows and shares

The blessings which both peace and plenty bring

He may safely play serenely

Where his father guards him well

He may safely grow strong and free

He'll grow up knowing who to be

Dad beside him where he fell

Where his father guards him well

℗ & © 2015 Electric Diving School/Tenderghost (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Licensed with permission from: Electric Diving School Music. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Misha Bittleston: Vocals, Synths, Weird Guitar, Effects, etc.

Gerardo Giraldo: Acoustic and Semi-Acoustic Guitars

Ezra Oklan: Drums

David Muller: TR-626 and Bass

Nick Dragisic: Clean Guitar

Simon Plummer: Dirty Guitar

Shira: Outro Guitar

Dave Ahl: Piano, Glockenspiel, Xylophone and Percussion

Jon Bell: Backing Vocals

Rafaël Leloup: Sonic Wizardry

Recorded in Brooklyn by Misha Bittleston at Apartment Four The Future, by Toshi Yano and David Muller at Melody Lanes and by Pablo Arraya at Audio Piranha.

Edited and arranged by Misha Bittleston, Dave Ahl, Gerardo Giraldo, Jon Bell and Rafaël Leloup at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn. Production Services by Stepwise Sound LLC.

LYRICS:

MOTIVATION - from Exhibition by Eight Two

I want your love to motivate me

Heal me, heal somehow, baby heal me, hold my hand

Hold me, hold me down, baby hold me, hold my hand

Have me, have command, baby have me, hold my hand

Help me, help me now, baby help me, hold my hand

I want your love, want your love, to motivate me

I want your love, I want your love to motivate me

I want your love to motivate me

I want your love, I want your love to motivate me

Heal me, heal somehow, baby heal me, hold my hand

Hold me, hold me down, baby hold me, hold my hand

Have me, have command, baby have me, hold my hand

Help me, help me now, baby help me, hold my hand

Be nice or get out

Be sweet or hit the street

Be nice or get out

Be sweet or hit the street...

I want your love, I want your love...

Be a robot of love let go move on and forgive

Love, motivate me

Your love, is pretty amazing

I want you, love is pretty motivating

I want your love motivation

I want your love

I want you, I want your love

I want you, I want your love

I want your love motivation

I want your love, want your love, to motivate me

I want your love, I want your love to motivate me

I want your love, want your love

I want your love

I want your love, I want your love to motivate me

Heal me, heal somehow, baby heal me, hold my hand

Hold me, hold me down, baby hold me, hold my hand

Have me, have command, baby have me, hold my hand

Help me, help me now, baby help me, hold my hand

Motivation, motivation, motivation

Misha Bittleston: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Electribe, Organ, Samplers, Sound Effects, Tambourine etc.

Gerardo Giraldo: Acoustic and Spanish Guitar

Ezra Oklan: Drums

Jeremy Kay: Bass

Lila Benaissa: Spanish Vocals

Rafaël Leloup: Piano and Percussion Accompaniment

Matt Decker: Mandolin

Recorded by Misha Bittleston at Apartment Four The Future and Jörg Krückel at Talkin' Rocket Studio, Brooklyn.

Edited and arranged by Misha Bittleston, Gerardo Giraldo, Rafaël Leloup and Jon Bell at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn.

LYRICS:

SHA NA NA NA - from Exhibition by Eight Two

Sha na na na na...

Llama!

Sha na na na...

Llama!

Sha na

No te vayas!

Quédate!

Sha ba da ba ba...

Aquí estaré

Sha na na na...

Llama! Aquí estaré

Ven pues que te estoy esperando hace rato!

Sha na na na...

Aquí estaré

Sha na na na...

Si no me llamas, te mato!

Shhhh

Sha na na na

Estaré aquí mismo!

Sha na na na...

Quédate!

Sha na na na...

No te vayas!

Sha na na na...

No Matter What won the best Love Song award at the Independent Music Awards.

Misha Bittleston: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Suitcase Piano, Organ, Electribe, Samplers, String Arrangement etc.

Gerardo Giraldo: Acoustic and Semi-Acoustic Electric Guitar

Adam Benham: Drums

Jeremy Kay: Bass

Jon Bell: Bridge Guitar, Piano, Wooden Finger-Drum and Bar Percussion (chairs, cutlery, foot rail)

Rachel Wardell: Accordion

Recorded by Misha Bittleston and Gerardo Giraldo at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn and by Pablo Arraya, assisted by Daniel Imana, at McSorley's Old Ale House, NYC.

Edited and arranged by Misha Bittleston, Gerardo Giraldo, Dave Ahl, Jon Bell and Rafaël Leloup at Apartment Four The Future, Brooklyn

LYRICS:

NO MATTER WHAT - from Exhibition by Eight Two

No matter what I do

I will always love you

No matter what you do

I will always love you

You can't take the truth, I'll be your lie

You go straight to jail, I will be your crime

You're a frightened rose, I'll be your thorn

You're the end of the world, I'll be your bomb

You're a silent ghost, so I'll be your boo

You're a fuzzy bee, I'll be your honey

No matter what I do

I will always love you

No matter what you do

I will always love you

I take you, you take me, I do

I take you, you take me too

I take you, you take me, I do

For you I'd do anything, for you I'd let you go

For you I'd be anything, for you I'd be alone

For you I'd give everything, for you I'd leave you be

For you I'd love everything, for you I'd set you free

No matter what I do

I will always love you

No matter what you do

I will always love you

Ahh, ahh, ahh, ah-ahh

Ah ah, ah ah, ah ah ahh