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	1.	Towards the gold rock, Hedges, 4.20pm, Oct 29, 1929 02:04
	2.	‘Rain follows the plough’ 05:37
	3.	Labor camp, north-east of Calexico, April 18, 1938 06:11
	4.	Folded time/sermon in the dust, ‘behold the bridegroom cometh’, 6am, May 6, 1929/79 03:22
	5.	Outlook over Graffiti Mesa, 11am, Feb 2, 1944 01:48
	6.	Tortuga, towards Salvation Pass, Aug 7, 1939 04:47
	7.	‘Ditch-bank blues’ 11:50
	8.	Approaching storm, north-west of Yuma, 8pm, Apr 14, 1945 03:36
	9.	‘A thousand acres’ 10:44

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Imaginal field recordings of Depression-era Imperial Valley, CA, USA. Dust-bowl tonalities. Folded time. Projective ethnography. Auditory nitrates after the work of Dorothea Lange.

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released March 13, 2024

Remastered from the original.
First released on Other Forms, December 3, 2021.
This reissue contains the additional, previously unreleased recording, 'A thousand acres'.

Cover image: "Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying 'I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body'" by Dorothea Lange, 1935. LC-USF34- 001618-C.

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