1. Watching Paint Dry (14:14)
2. Irritating Ambient Music (6:54)
3. Arm Wrestling (5:04)
4. Very Molto Avant-Garde Pra Caramba (4:33)
5. Even More Vanguardissima (1:01)
6. The Art of Boredom (Atonal Music) (9:28)
7. Different Trainwrecks (13:00)
total time: 54:14

Composed and recorded in July 27-28th, 2007
Released in October, 2007 as a free digital package on Jamendo.

Jamendo is an interesting music community with more than 5000 free albums of all styles. Half their profits from ads are shared with the musicians: the more downloads and page hits the artists have, and the more they are recommended using the community's system, the thicker their slice of the cake is.

This collection is a lighthearted homage to:

- Erik Satie
a unique figure in music history, creator of dozens of marvellous short music pieces, mostly for piano;
inventor of Ambient Music through his Furniture Music (Musique d'Ameublement);
creator of dadaistic titles and surreal score instructions, before Dadaism and Surrealism were invented - some would say he's the precursor of all the music that came after him and I wouldn't argue with that;
and many other things.

- Steve Reich
composer of Different Trains, one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century.

- Conlon Nancarrow
original creator of some crazy fast automatic piano music who was born
exactly 70 years and two days before me.

- Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fugue is one of his most important compositions, but the only performance of it I've heard (on CD) is unfortunately, a VERY BORING one.

- and all musicians who make serious music.

"Every Brazilian composer is full of complexes." (Tom Zé - Complexo de Épico (Oepicus Complex))

Music, graphics, text by Gustavo Jobim
Cover photograph downloaded from the internet
Back cover photograph by GJ