#nagaski

[denimbex1986]

'Christopher Nolan's newest film Oppenheimer is about the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. Giving the devastation the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima caused to the country and its people, it's no wonder that there is uncertainty about the film releasing in Japanese cinemas.

Reports are circulating on social media claiming that the film has been banned in Japan, but that's not necessarily the case.

The film has not been announced to be skipping a Japanese release, but it is true that a release hasn't been confirmed there yet. Given that the film is releasing worldwide next week (July 21), it's likely that if the film comes to Japanese cinemas at all, it will be later than that.

The latest official word from studio Universal is a spokesperson telling Variety that "plans have not been finalised in all markets" in a statement released at the end of June.

Meanwhile, Nolan himself told the publication at the premiere on Friday (July 14) he wants the film to reach the "widest audience around the world as it can" but added that "films don't come out everywhere all at the same time, so we're waiting to see what happens with the other markets".

Much has been made of Oppenheimer's supposed rivalry with the Barbie movie releasing on the same day, but it's interesting to note that the latter film has been officially banned in certain territories ahead of its release.

The film won't be releasing in Vietnam due to the use of a map which references China's proclaimed ownership of a large section of naval territory, something that countries like Vietnam and the Philippines have long contested.

Oppenheimer will be released in most countries on July 21.'

[pegassi-toreador]

Nagasaki Shinobi

Owner: Bread_gum on PSN

[ishibashisumi]

Work - illustration for 「みらい長崎ココウォーク」秋のメインビジュアル 館内ポスター（B1,B3）、広告ポスター、ポストカード等に展開されました。秋は、ココウォークの創業祭なので、anniversary となっております^^

[centrally-unplanned]

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Based or Cringe?

Hiroshima = based, Nagaski = cringe, we having it both ways today baby!

But okay to not meme, this is a very complex question. Fundamentally, the mass-scale strategic bombing of civilian targets in World War Two was a dubiously effective policy that killed millions of innocent people. I judge no one for strategically bombing tank factories with the accuracy you had in 1943, that is just the harsh realities of that war, but that is not a description of what Allied strategy was (or not just, they also bombed tank factories). There were legions of air power proponents executing a strategy of "maximizing civilian casualties to break the back of the enemy", killing babies was the point, and the horrors of things like the firebombing of Tokyo are literally inconceivable to those who have never been in such times. Morality is not divorced from results - if it worked, if it made Germany & Japan surrender after a night of bloodied streets, then I would be hard-pressed to fault them. But that isn't what happened. It probably did something, sure, but the calculus is grim.

From that lens you can see Hiroshima as a culmination of a horrible strategy; but I don't think that is the only lens you have. World War Two was, in my opinion without peer, the highest stakes conflict humanity has ever fought. Nazi Germany's combination of dystopian vision and backed-by-steel ambition makes it the worst government to ever exist; Japan is certainly in the top 10 as far as these things go. And while we with our tables of GDP and steel output can say the Allies had it in the bag, that is never how people fighting a war see things.

Additionally, the methods of World War Two emerged from the almost-as-cataclysmic horrors of World War One; a conflict that utterly destroyed the governments of half the countries that fought it in. And their replacements were...not great! It was not a war that broke imperialism to usher in liberalism, even if steps were made that way. After WW1, people were desperate to find a way to fight the next war in a way that wouldn't condemn themselves to endless trench warfare they had gone through, one that wouldn't bring them to the brink of collapse, even if it fucked over the other guy.

Strategic bombing was born from this impulse - its founders truly hoped it would break the back of opposing nations, that once you "won air superiority" and started smacking Berlin the white flag would be raised. This didn't happen, but you didn't know that in 1941. Or in 1942. Or in 1943. Maybe it's just around the corner in 1944? You really want to stop now? 90% of Strategic Bombing Commands quit just before their enemy's will is finally broken, don't you know? In hindsight it is easy to say, in 1944, that they should have taken to foot off the pedal, that the war was won, and that this strat wasn't the way. And to be clear, they should have, they should have done that. Better men would have done that. But that is the high bar I am holding them too, not the floor. In this time period most people just didn't think civilians got spared in war, it was a different time. Morality's aim is universal, but the steps of the individual towards them can only be contextual. I think they were wrong, and to be clear by 1945 it was becoming quite obvious that the war was over and this was unnecessary. But few of us are so immune to the sins of inertia in a war.

From that lens, Hiroshima is the most justified civilian-targeted strategic bombing conducted in the entire war. Because unlike the inertia-creep of the Dresden firebombing, it had a very clear purpose - compel the Japanese government to surrender by demonstrating a weapon they could not hope to defeat, something that would save tens of thousands of American lives and likely hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives. I believe it did do that - not only do I think it was at least as important as the Soviet declaration of war, but the one-two punch of timing them together was a calculated psychological blow that certainly didn't hurt.

But more importantly Truman was not privy to the sessions of the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, he could only guess where they stood. Within that context Hiroshima was a calculated gambit that makes sense; because strategically bombing civilian targets was the order of the day at that time, and that all the big solo-military targets were essentially bombed away at that point, the idea of some kind of "display" against a dummy target or something - to a government the US had barely any communication with, wasting a scarce resource - was just not politically in the cards. Hell, neglecting to bomb Kyoto for cultural reasons, and doing things like dropping leaflets warning civilians ahead of the attack to flee, were already tail-end of the humanitarian practices of the time. I cannot armchair judge Truman for making hard calls with the stakes as high as they were.

However, Nagasaki was a classic interia case. It was done because the US had the bomb and we were bombing cities. It made even less sense than campaigns before, because now the US had a "reason" to think surrender might be imminent, so giving it a few days had far more logic. This one I judge much more harshly. It was the decision of a system that just did violence by default. Which of course it was, it was World War Two. But results are morality - Hiroshima probably saved Japanese lives. Nagasaki did not. Them's the breaks.

[matan4il]

Memo to the 'Experts': Stop Comparing Israel's War in Gaza to Anything. It Has No Precedent | by John Spencer

Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza has inevitably drawn comparisons to other battles or wars, both modern and from the past. These comparisons are mostly used to make the case that Israel's operations in Gaza are the most destructive in history, or the deadliest in history.

Yet while the use of historical analogy may be tempting for armchair pundits, in the case of Israel's current war, the comparisons are often poorly cited, the data used inaccurate, and crucial context left out. Given the scale and context of an enemy purposely entrenched in densely populated urban areas, as well as the presence of tunnels, hostages, rockets, attackers that follow the laws of war while defenders purposely do not, and proximity between the frontlines and the home front, there is basically no historical comparison for this war.

Let's start with the context: After Hamas crossed into Israel on Oct. 7, murdering over 1,200 Israelis in brutal ways that included mutilation and sexual assaults as well as taking over 200 hostages back into Gaza, Israel formally declared a defensive war against Hamas in Gaza in accordance with international law and the United Nations charter. Since, the IDF estimates it has killed 10,000 Hamas operatives, while Hamas claims that the total number of casualties is 24,000 (Hamas does not distinguish civilian deaths from militant deaths).

Hamas' strategy is to use Palestinian civilians as human shields, because their goal is not to defeat Israel's military or to hold terrain; it is far more sinister and medieval—to use the death and suffering of Palestinian civilians to rally international support to their cause and demand that Israel halt their war.

Meanwhile, Israel's war aims were more traditional: returning Israeli hostages, dismantling Hamas military capability, and securing their border to prevent another October 7 attack.

These goals required not one major urban battle but multiple. While Gaza is not the densest populated urban region on earth as many claim, it features over 20 densely-populated cities. And while the Israeli Defense Forces are engaged in fighting, Hamas has continued to launch over 12,000 rockets on nearly every day of the war from the combat area toward civilian-populated areas in Israel, literally over the heads of the attacking IDF, who it bears mentioning are fighting just a few miles from their homeland and the homes of their soldiers.

Put all of this together, this war is simply without precedent. Certainly, it cannot be compared to the host of other wars that have been used for comparison sake to paint Israel in an unflattering light.

Some have compared Israel to Russia, yet there is simply no comparison. In the 2022 Battle of Mariupol, estimates of the number of civilians killed range up to 25,000, including 600 civilians killed in a single bombing of a theater with the word "children" written in giant letters around it. This is the same Russia that killed over 50,000 civilians (5 percent) of a 1.1 million pre-war population of Chechnya in 20 months of combat in the late 1990s in multiple major urban battles such as Grozny.

Or take Syria. Over 300,00 civilians have been killed in the Syrian war; an average of 84 civilians were killed every day from 2013 to 2023.

Others have compared the battles in Gaza to World War II air campaigns like the UK bombing of the German city of Dresden in 1945 that killed an estimated 25,000 civilians. But here, too, memory is selective: These same people discount air campaign cases such as the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo the same year that killed over 300,000 civilians, to include 80,000 to 100,000 civilians in a single night, causing more death and destruction than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagaski.

A battle that does bear a resemblance to Israel's war against Hamas is the 1945 Battle of Manila—the largest urban struggle of World War II, with more civilian casualties incurred than even the Battle of Stalingrad. The city had a population of 1.1 million residents as well as over 1,000 American prisoners of war being held in the city. It took the U.S. military 35,000 forces and a whole month to defeat 17,000 Japanese Navy defenders in and around the city.

Like in Gaza, the defenders used the city's sewer and tunnel systems for offensive and defensive purposes. And there were over 100,000 civilian deaths from the battle—one of the major factors of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which stipulated the laws of armed conflict to further protect civilians and prevent civilian deaths.

Most experts compare the Gaza war to the recent urban battles against ISIS involving United States forces, including the 2016-17 Battle of Mosul. In that battle, over 100,000 Iraqi Security Forces, backed by American advisors and U.S. and coalition air power, took nine months to clear a city of 3,000 to 5,000 lightly armed ISIS fighters. The battle resulted in over 10,000 civilian deaths, 138,000 houses destroyed or damaged and 58,000 damaged with 40,000 homes destroyed outright in just Western Mosul. Iraqi Security Forces suffered 10,000 casualties. There were very limited, shallow, house-to-house tunnels, but no tunnel networks, no hostages, no rockets.

In April of 2004, the U.S. military was directed to arrest the perpetrators of an attack that caused the death of four American civilians and deny insurgents sanctuary in the densely populated city of Fallujah, Iraq, a city of 300,000 residents. The battle that ensued was later dubbed the First Battle of Fallujah. Because of international condemnation and political instability fueled by international media over a perceived indiscriminate use of force and civilian casualties, the U.S. forces were ordered by the U.S. Central Command Commander to stop the battle six days into it.

Estimates of the total civilian deaths from the battle range from 220 to 600. Six months later, in November 2004, the U.S. military initiated the Second Battle of Fallujah. It took 13,000-15,000 U.S., UK, and Iraqi forces six weeks to clear the city of 3,000 insurgents. There were some 800 civilian deaths even though the city's residents had largely evacuated before the battle. Over sixty percent the city's buildings were damaged or destroyed. But there, too, the enemy defenders did not have access to tunnels.

Ultimately, comparisons with both past and modern cases highlight the fact that there is almost no way to defeat an entrenched enemy defender without destruction, even while implementing all feasible precautions and limits on the use of force required by the laws of war.

Let's put away our military history books. There is no comparison to what Israel has faced in Gaza—certainly none by which Israel comes out looking the worse.

John Spencer is chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point, codirector of MWI's Urban Warfare Project and host of the "Urban Warfare Project Podcast." He served for 25 years as an infantry soldier, which included two combat tours in Iraq. He is the author of the book Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connection in Modern War and co-author of Understanding Urban Warfare.

[hudbannonarchive]

"why show the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki in oppenheimer, aren't we meant to understand how horrific it is when oppenheimer gives his congratulations speech and he watches the faces of everyone in the crowd melt?" technically yes but people arguing for the inclusion of the bombings aren't doing it because they want to see someone's face melt off they're doing it because the people in hiroshima and nagaski were the victims of oppenheimer's creation. they felt the literal and immediate effects of it, they aren't just projections of his guilty conscious, they are real people who were horribly killed. the dropping of the atomic bombs on japan is one of the things that solidified the united states as a global superpower and the rest of the world is still dealing with the consequences of that. i don't care if you already learned about the thousands of people who were killed or injured or diseased when you were in the fourth grade, learn about them again.

[artisticlegshake]

THE DANCE AWARDS ORLANDO RESULTS 2023

SENIOR DUO/TRIOS:

1st 8am - EDX JP!

2nd From Where We Stand - STARS JP!

2nd Desire - EDX JP!

3rd Nagaski - WOODBURY JP!

4th An Unrequited Love - ECOLE DE DANSE JP!

4th Holding On - STARS JP!

5th Ages - VLAD’S JP!

5th Connection Through Path - EDX JP!

5th Disappear - UPSTATE CAROLINA JP!

5th Mantra - CDC JP!

5th When A Man Loves A Woman - ARTISTIC EDGE JP!

JP! awards but didn’t place in top 5:

The Final Curtain - WEST FLORIDA JP!

Direction - VLAD’S JP!

The Space Between - THE NINE JP!

When It’s Cold - PATTI EISENHAUER JP!

It Could Be - VLAD’S JP!

Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me - ECOLE DE DANSE JP!

[the-firebird69]

Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (Official HD Video)

and they are saying this. and constantly no.  but are. and we fight to defend ourselves. adn we see ok. and they go on an on no.  but this is heavy need it. and it is vs trump. and his now too. and tons are at it trying to slow hims shrink need ot and steven tyler said today...

Thor freya

I need out of this shit.  i saidit. f this guy trump. we are all in this together have to be we are persacuted by the same people. need it now. this guy too.  we need him bg and we know need you. this blows.and he wont stop s an ass and intends to ruin our cities. this sucks.  he needs out the macs planned it bg says.  we need t o stop them and or him.  and now yes

steven tyler and thank you for the audience and i mean it ok get them all the time ok ahahahah lol

we use this needed it tons hate me even my own.  true too i am bad. need out but cant leave.

trump

we see when you hang too.  it is a cheeseman movie no you are hung in It chapter 2.  and real.  and got out. but still did so in the revelutionary war by reletives who cared for you and you hurt them then not like now your aweful budddy need you gone now

steven tyler

we care about us and ours you dont he does more for us than you you suck.   go build your car and get an earful make it worse you oaf.  need you to seeit we do this needed this and steven says thank yoiu we do thank him he and i the big fell ahahah not really that big now no but bigger than us lol

gaga

we use him to go downt here and must he will wants in first. has tobe same with nagaski and iroshima and ppl blow his stuff nd the ships might be there and it remnidns him saw it and burnd for it.  and still does.  dn goes now we see it too 

bja

and he is off good and good work gag i  see it. is real.

and i did not harm your brother haha tons made a big deal of it. and joel.  we see ehy. horrid tlaks and maean.  weaponry ok

steven tyler

and we work need thiss wr tostop are not this way

stan ama  giant

me too but out. and our friend said ittoday.  some macs are cut loose and have seen it and they do it to us we are big sstill and we hear them ok

mac dddy

we heard it too

bill will about us and him too we say no way and he does the ybalk and tyr to take it back we say forgeienrs and they back off wont forever but yeh they suck at this

bill wi

Olympus

[ivanreycristo]

..y recordad q ESTAN VETADOS todos los ARTISTAS no IBEROAMERICANOS en IBEROAMERICA como si estuviéramos aún con el CORONA POLLAS..y que si ocurriera ALGO TRAGICO O CATACLISMO que HAGA LA LUZ..les haré RESPONSABLE a todos LOS CANTANTES o grupos de MASAS x no ADVERTIR o REVELAR sobre LO TRANSCENDENTAL QUE ESTA PASANDO O APOCALIPSIS..así q no OLVIDAR IVAN MEETS GI JOE [Representación del gobierno de EEUU en sus SOLDADOS ] del cd SANDINISTA! de THE CLASH como CHARLIE DON'T SURF [=frase de APOCALIPSIS NOW q se ponía AXL ROSE en una camiseta de CHARLES MANSON del q versiono LOOK AT YOUR GAME, GIRL en cd THE SPAGUETTI INCIDENT..x no recordar todo lo relacionado con lo del asesinato en CIELO DRIVE etc]

Los PUTOS EEUU se tienen que comer las BOMBAS ATOMICAS a HIROSIMA Y NAGASKI con las AMERICANIZADAS virginia maestro y Natalia García Poza "NAT SIMONS"..SAYONARA BABY..seguro que en ALEMANIA también lo AGRADECEN

@CultoLT Billy Corgan de Smashing Pumpkins: “Todos los años pedimos venir a Sudamérica y siempre nos dicen que no”

[pixiepretzel]

A female time traveler stepping through a time portal.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was one of the main triggers for World War I. Time travelers could potentially prevent his assassination and stop the war before it even begins.

The Holocaust: The systematic genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II is one of the darkest moments in human history. Time travelers could potentially intervene and prevent the Holocaust from happening, saving countless lives.

The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 resulted in the deaths of over 200,000 people. Time travelers could potentially intervene and prevent the use of atomic bombs, potentially changing the course of history in the process.

The slave trade: The transatlantic slave trade was a massive human rights violation that lasted for over 300 years. Time travelers could potentially intervene and prevent the slave trade from happening, potentially changing the course of history and improving the lives of millions of people.

[mjudgesworld]

Marching into Japan (Photo by JUDGE) #japan #nagaski #silversea #leicam9 #photographer https://www.instagram.com/p/BvtttoVjXcw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oioi0nwkf3rr

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#tonkastu #kastu #porkkatsu #food #foodporn #foodie #japan #nagaski #foodies #phonecamers #camerphone #porkcutlet #pork #cabbage #sauce https://www.instagram.com/p/B1XyzLsBhLB/?igshid=1i4u5gfdrdtax

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[pridewon]

(nekomata yasufumi; timeline) (don’t reblog!)

8th august 1944 (0yo) - yasufumi is born in sendai, miyagi, during the last year of the second world war. his father was a soldier, part of the 2nd infantry division (als known as sendai division), and spent most of the conflict fighting abroad. he was killed in battle in burma (myanmar) shortly after his only son was conceived, leaving behind a widow and a son who would never know his father.

10th july 1945 (10months old) - sendai is bombed by the US army. yasufumi and his mother are among the survivors, but his mother’s parents are both killed in the early hours of the raid. yasufumi’s uncle, who lives outside a city in a small town spared by the conflict, offers to take them in.

6th - 9th august 1945 (1yo) - the US bomb hiroshima and nagaski. a few days later, on the 14th, japan unconditionally surrenders to the allied forces.

april 1958 (12yo) - yasufumi attends hakusuikan middle school, and starts playing volleyball at the school’s brand new club. his mother works as a nurse at a local hospital.

some time in 1959 (14yo) - yasufumi becomes his team’s substitute setter. during a game against another school, he meets ukai ikkei, with whom begins a friendship and rivalry 50 years in the making. 

january 1960 (15yo) - yasufumi’s family moves to tokyo, where he finishes middle school. he starts highschool shortly thereafter, attending nekoma high.

some time in 1961 (15-16yo) - nekoma high’s boys volleyball team makes it way to the national tournament, where he is reunited with ukai ikkei. unfortunately, both nekoma and karasuno are disqualified before they can face one another. his uncle, who works in construction, is hired to work on the building site for the yoyogi national stadium.

march 1963 (18yo) - yasufumi graduates from nekoma high, and becomes an editor at a sports newspaper belonging to a big printed media conglomerate in tokyo. in his spare time, he sets up the company’s volleyball team, where he plays and coaches new players.

10th - 24th october 1964 (20yo) - the summer olympics take place in tokyo, at the yoyogi national stadium. the men’s volleyball team takes the bronze medal, while the women’s team takes gold. yasufumi attends both games as a spectator.

april 1969 (24yo) - after his mother’s passing, yasufumi leaves his job and becomes the full-time head coach of nekoma high’s volleyball boys team. he will remain in this position throughout his career and up until his first retirement. 

for the next fourty-or-so-years, coach nekomata and coach ukai, who has also become the head coach at karasuno, organise friendly practice games and continue to fuel their dream of facing off at Nationals in a game they affectionately named the battle of the trash heap. unfortunately, they never manage to face each other in an official capacity.

march 2008 (63yo) - yasufumi retires a first time. 

july 2010 (65yo) - yasufumi comes out of retirement a few months after kuroo tetsurô, kai nobuyuki, and yaku morisuke start their first year at nekoma high.

7th january 2013 (68yo) - karasuno beats nekoma at the spring tournament, thus winning the fated battle of the trash heap. he retires the following year.

14th august 2022 (78yo) - yasufumi, escorted by former student lev and kenma, attends the all-star one-time volleyball game organised by his former protegee kuroo tetsurô. 

[onepointeight]

11/06/2013. 5:58pm. Nagaski.

Lately I've been thinking about my kids. It's probably just hanging around with kids so much, but whenever I see them clumsily running with legs so small they look abnormal or grinning so wide they can't form sentence I can't help but get clucky.

The pure innocence is pure beauty.

I wonder what my kids will be like.

There's only one person I can see myself having children with. If things don't work out with █████ I don't think I'll ever recover. Growing old with her doesn't seem like a chore. Something I'd like to do.

Then again it's probably because these Japanese kids are so fucking cute.

[burlveneer-music]

Universal Liberation Orchestra - Communion - if you are into outsider music from the 80s, privately issued in low numbers, CHECK THIS OUT (new reissue from Freedom to Spend)

Communion, privately released in an impossibly small edition of twenty five cassettes in 1986, is a beguiling, politically underpinned meditation of cosmic improvisation and wayward folk music from Cleveland’s Universal Liberation Orchestra. The group’s name is, in one sense, a tongue-in-cheek reference to their changing membership, while also a proclamation of intention. Started in 1979 as a five-piece, first known as the Cleveland Collective, the group eventually whittled down to the duo of brothers River and Tom Smith. Much of the siblings’ music has an overt political bent; their first two albums under the originally abbreviated name Universe, New Day (1984) and Open Season (1985), express anti-war sentiments with songs like “The Bomb” and “Hiroshima Nagaski Blues.” The brothers’ practiced what they preached, too: playing at anti-nuke demonstrations, performing at labor rights picket lines, and opening a Cleveland rally for Jesse Jackson during the reverend’s first presidential campaign. River himself even ran for congress multiple times, all while practicing as a clinical psychologist. River and Tom assume distinct roles in ULO: The former is the lyricist, while Tom handles songwriting and most of the instrumentation. River’s interest was always in poetry, and in his early twenties, he set up readings and workshops around Cleveland. Tom took guitar lessons at fourteen, and while he soon abandoned the instrument, he eventually embraced it, emboldened. “I had an aptitude where I could basically pick up any instrument—whatever suited my fancy—and play a little bit here and there,” he says. While much of ULO’s music follows folk rock’s lineage, a slightly psychedelic and cozy meandering that exists on earlier recordings takes full form on Communion. The album stands out in their discography with less emphasis on River’s vocals and more on the music: moody synths, bright percussion, and a delightfully homespun charm. The brothers called what they created for Communion “liberation music.” River defines liberation as “realizing all the possibilities available for all of us,” specifically referring to ongoing battles against sexism, racism, and classism. 

But this recognition of what could be manifested in their musical audacity, too. “We didn’t feel a great need to stay in one genre,” River asserts. While Universal Liberation Orchestra essentially ceased in 1992, both Tom and River continued their artistic pursuits in the following decades. Most notably, in 1993 they shifted their attention to running a politically charged cable access show that, in its current iteration, exists online and is called Liberation Brew TV. Tom, who has always edited the duo’s musical recordings, enjoys the same meticulous process for their videos. River continues to write, and published a self-help book called A Conspiracy to Love (2009) that comes with an accompanying CD, a couple tracks of which are from Communion. River expresses how happy he is to see things slowly but surely changing, as with the Black Lives Matter movement, and the greater acceptance of ideas regarding gender identity. He provides one more definition of liberation that feels true to his and Tom’s entire lives: “liberation is to care deeply about humans.” Universal Liberation Orchestra’s Communion arrives January 28, 2022 as part of uncommon¢ (uncommon sense), an open-ended serialized endeavor from Freedom to Spend providing new meaning for rarefied recordings from music's outermost fringe.

All music by Universal Liberation Orchestra Lyrics by C.A. Smith and T.R. Smith “Communion,” “Motor,” “Sunday Morning, Brightly,” “Welling,” “Freedom Prayer,” and “Noise Jam” mixed by CZ Wang Mastered and cut by Carl Saff, Saff Mastering (Chicago, IL) Universal Liberation Orchestra = Universe + synthesizers