Disambiguation Station, by Cara Esten (and the Rusty Sunsets)

Disambiguation Station

by Cara Esten (and the Rusty Sunsets)

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Cayce Fischer Beautiful and real and full of emotion. I cried. Makes me want to listen to folk music again. Favorite track: Danian Age (After Chicxulub).

kelly_shera Common Employment is stunning and beautiful - I want to hear it live to hear what other gems it has hiding inside. Dandelion Heretics makes me think of summer. <3

MxAshlynn This whole album is incredible. Both Istanbul Fast Ferry and Common Employment are haunting, Danian Age rocks, and overall there is such a range! Favorite track: Danian Age (After Chicxulub).

George Kelly It's done well and it's well done. Favorite track: Lyon County, Nevada (Micronational Anthem).

Richard Halkyard This album is a beautiful thing, and I don't say that lightly. Favorite track: Lyon County, Nevada (Micronational Anthem).

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1.	Danian Age (After Chicxulub) 04:22	lyrics	buy track
In a cavern underground The two of us could hear the sound Of rushing air and water overhead We did our best to stay inside Fires tried to take our lives But time passed and we weren’t dead Green fields gone black and brown A desolate and lonely town hacking cough and crying eyes What happens after the end of the world? What stories burn and which ones are heard New names rise from dirt (I love the way it hurts) What happens after the end of the world? Pick up pieces left behind Undo knots from ties that bind Forget the promises we made Bones that last a million years Hearts like ours that never heal The pain just keeps us sharp as blades Black fields with specks of green All relief’s a distant dream And salvation can’t arrive What happens after the end of the world? What stories burn and which ones get told We sculpt our bodies out of clay (Pull me close and stay) What happens after the end of the world? What happens after the end of the world? What stories burn and which ones get told New names rise from dirt (I love the way it hurts)
2.	Common Employment (Song For Rosalyn) 02:11	lyrics	buy track
Hand in hand while the other weaves tight Hand in hand most every night Hand in hand like a poem or a song Like the last few seconds of night before dawn I miss you, Rosalyn I miss your delicate touch I miss the sight of your skin Hand in hand in the union hall Hand in hand through the market stalls Hand in hand hidden in folds of skirts Fabric piled up on the pews in church I miss you, Rosalyn I miss your long eyelashes, how you never gave in I miss you Rosalyn I miss your delicate touch I miss the sight of your skin Hand in hand till stitches slowed down Hand in hand till they called me out Hand in hand till I was out of work On that Saturday in March, when you left this earth I miss you Rosalind (146 people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 123 of them were women)
3.	Etynodiol Diacetate (Autonomy) 02:34	lyrics	buy track
Cost per pill in a payment plan Counting change, change change Catholic hymns and catholic pain Catholic graves graves graves And I don’t wanna be buried With the same weight my mother carried I don’t wanna be buried With the same weight my mother carried Reflections always caught my eye Something strange strange strange Relax repeat escape routines From this cage cage cage And I don’t wanna be buried With the same weight my father carried I don’t wanna be buried With the same weight my father carried
4.	Constantin Georg Alexander Winkler (Dandelion Heretics) 03:48	lyrics	buy track
Sunrise over manicured lawns I’m not the one who’s in your arms But I’ll teach you both to dream Three years since an escape attempt The broke down truck that heavy scent Burnt oil on Texas breeze And the Bible study breaks Take a look out west and pray Who named the flowers that grow by the highway The ones that go heavy in May Who studied the seeds we tie to our wishes When we wish to fly away Your lover looks at me with eyes That see departure metastasize She's packing bags and moving on You hang on every word I say Like gravity never pulled us away Your faith was strong And your older brother’s angry eyes When he sees me back in town alive Who named the flowers that grow by the highway The ones that go heavy in May Who studied the seeds we tie to our wishes When we wish to fly away Loading up my trusty car Two faces from across the yard Can we get a ride? I think it’s time to try
5.	Lyon County, Nevada (Micronational Anthem) 02:39	lyrics	buy track
I pledge allegiance to the vacant shed And the broke down fence by the border The way the sun sinks into the sand How days burn but nights get colder God bless the tire swing God save our king God save all the littler things I pledge an oath to protect this home In our hearts and abandoned mines Our famous sons all come and gone they’re just Immigrants to highway exit signs God bless the tire swing God save our king God save all the littler things God save the songs we forgot how to sing God save all the little things
6.	Istanbul Fast Ferry Co (Far From Ocean Beach) 03:52	lyrics	buy track
Oh how the echo of the foghorn sings From buried bones of discarded kings A home for all forgotten things Crumbling houses and poetry And on the shore a face I knew Evokes that ever-present you Is it spirit, sighs or truth Or just a part I left back there And I held a little kindness for her smile She held a small kindness for my eyes But it gets so foggy here at night And all the stars they shed their light And I toss and turn the shadows creep As I lie awake out on the beach

about

Disambiguation Station is a concept album where each song is inspired by clicking the Random Article button on Wikipedia. More than that, though, it's about being stuck in between things and using the world around you as inspiration for understanding yourself.

Recorded on two separate four-track tape recorders over a year and a half, Disambiguation Station is a return to analog recording for Cara Esten Hurtle, who recorded her first album over ten years ago on a boombox cassette tape recorder.

Do you want a physical cassette? Let me know here!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9aF5lDcyVmjzeRUJ_iGJoUJ2Wq6Bx9Z-kD4Lh4QVkChuFUA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Each song's wiki-inspiration can be found in the "About this song" section.

credits

released June 18, 2019

cover art by Amina (bandcamp.com/shareefali)

fiddle on "Constantin Georg Alexander Winkler (Dandelion Heretics)" by Paige Pritchard

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Cara Esten (and the Rusty Sunsets) Oakland, California

just a girl, standing in front of a tape recorder with an acoustic guitar, a melodica, and a synthesizer, asking the motor to please not burn out this time

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