Adam Berenson: Every Beginning Is A Sequel

Every Beginning Is A Sequel (2020)

Recorded June 29, July 2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27, 30, August 3, 6, 13 [2019]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Adam Berenson wishes to thank Dr. Joseph Cavuto for the use of his Fender Rhodes Mark II 88 key Stage Piano, and Steve Lushbaugh, without whose time, studio, expertise, and creative insights, this project would have been impossible.

Adam Berenson: Fender Rhodes Mark II 88 key Stage Piano, Prophet Rev2, Korg Triton Extreme, Roland SH101, and Yamaha SK20 Symphonic Ensemble (with an MXR Phase 100)

Liner notes by Karl Ackermann

Engineer: Steve Lushbaugh
Cover painting/collage: Marilynn Lawrence
Cover design/concept: Marilynn Lawrence & Adam Berenson
Produced by Adam Berenson & Steve Lushbaugh

Volume One
Part One

1) Virtual Duet
2) Overmorrow
3) Pars pro toto
4) Dreaming Philosophy
5) Aphanasis
6) Anthropocene
7) Strange Dramaturgy
8) Jesus Maria (Carla Bley)
9) 1215 CE
10) Transcendental Empiricism
11) Time Crystals
12) Amor Fati
13) The Poetics of the Prosaic
14) Argot
15) On Friendship
16) The Liberating Embrace of Death (Part One)

Volume One
Part Two

1) Dreams So Real (Carla Bley)
2) A Spider God
3) The Pull of the Past
4) Reality Is Always Multiple
5) Song of Roland
6) Don't Ever Leave Me
7) Mind Control
8) Patterns In A Tunnel
9) The Digital Big Other
10) Our Mutual Acquaintance
11) The Problem of Evil
12) The Thing Outside of Itself
13) An Ancient Lament
14) Metathesis
15) Enjoy Guilt

Volume One
Part Three

1) Strange Bright Signals
2) The Liberating Embrace of Death (Part Two)
3) Denude Oneself Before the Ghosts
4) Interpretosis
5) Vulgar Soul
6) The Clementinum
7) A White Spectrum
8) A System of Suffering
9) Lines of Flight
10) Afternoon of Remembrance

Volume Two
Part One

1) Queen Isabella the Catholic
2) The Constitution of the Id
3) Nausea of Ambition
4) Humans of New York
5) The Logic of Poetics
6) Noise Pollution
7) Chamber Tomb
8) Mevlevia (Michael Goodrick)
9) The Lights Were Shining
10) Out of Joint
11) A Precious Sort of Necromancy
12) The Liberating Embrace of Death (Part Three)
13) Alone With The Pain
14) Helen of Troy
15) Xibalba

Volume Two
Part Two

1) Psych Ward
2) A Corner of the Attic
3) Listen to the Listener
4) Blues for Gille Deleuze
5) Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman)
6) The Mirror Stage
7) Unfinished Reality
8) One Consolation
9) Giant Steps (John Coltrane)
10) It Hardly Seems to Matter
11) The Domination of Identity
12) Another Way To Be Alive
13) A Mental Lapse
14) The Scene Changes
15) Negative Free Will
16) Why Didn't They Ask Edmund?

Volume Two
Part Three

1) This Doesn't Communicate Anything
2) Muons
3) Alarm Bells
4) Actants
5) Secrets at Twilight
6) Motion Painting In Black
7) Lack Itself is Lacking
8) Home Invasion Thriller
9) Creating Plans
10) The Mysterious Forest is just off of Johnson Highway
11) Adagio for Glass Harmonica (Mozart)