Upgrade & Afterlife
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Upgrade & Afterlife is a 1996 album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Gastr del Sol
Gastr del Sol
Gastr del Sol was a Chicago band consisting, for most of their career, of David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. Between 1993 and 1998 they put out seven albums ranging in genre from post-rock to musique concrète....

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The album cover is Wasserstiefel (Water Boots) by Swiss artist Roman Signer
Roman Signer
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Track listing

  1. "Our Exquisite Replica of "Eternity":" –8:26
  2. "Rebecca Sylvester" – 3:53
  3. "The Sea Incertain"* – 6:12
  4. "Hello Spiral" –10:40
  5. "The Relay" – 5:49
  6. "Crappie Tactics" – 1:48
  7. "Dry Bones in the Valley (I Saw the Light Come Shining 'Round and 'Round) – 12:28

  • Several sources (including the usually reliable Allmusic) misidentify track 3 as "The Sea Uncertain." This title, correctly rendered, appears to refer playfully both to a track on Gastr's previous full-length release titled "The C in Cake" and to one of Gastr percussionist John McEntire
    John McEntire
    John McEntire is an American recording engineer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known for being in Tortoise and The Sea and Cake, as well as being a highly in-demand producer and engineer....

    's other bands, The Sea and Cake
    The Sea and Cake
    The Sea and Cake is an indie rock band with a pronounced jazz influence, which formed in the mid-1990s in Chicago out of the ashes of local bands The Coctails and Shrimp Boat. The group's name came from a willful reinterpretation of "The C in Cake", a song by Gastr del Sol...

    , a moniker derived from McEntire's mishearing of that title. The title "Our Exquisite Replica of "Eternity"" is derived from the name of a cheap perfume marketed in public bathroom vending machines; the track contains a sample of the music used in the 50s sci-fi classic The Incredible Shrinking Man.
  • "Dry Bones in the Valley" is a cover of a John Fahey song
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