1. SNACKMAN’S DREAMSCAPE: This song was in my head while traveling on the subway to my job in the mid- 2000’s. The “snacker” tip-toes through his dream, picking up food things along the way and eating them in all sorts of strange fantasical settings.

2. HOW MUCH HAVE U HAD?: Written in Spring 2016, This song could be about our cat Sweet Deem or maybe an imaginary drug addict roommate (you choose / apologies if your drug addict roommate is real). “It’s 6 am and you want some more / I hear you runnin’ around and makin’ noise on the floor / Makin’ all kinds of racket that no one could stand. / Are you really that bad? How much have you had? / I hear the lamp get tipped (tip tip tip) and I raise one eye and see you lookin’ at me / I’m sleeping like a cat…like a baby in blankets / Your insatiable urge for getting mauled in the sun.”

3. SECONDARY PERSON: Written in 2008 as a failed experiment to try to merge jazz and sludge metal. Lyrics came in 2015 and they are in response to that age old command “Dance like no one is watching” Lyrics: “Sometimes you’re lost but ya don’t want to be found / Sometimes you fly, but you never leave the ground / Ain’t no surprise that you sit inside the sound / Don’t feel so shy cause there’s always been someone around.”

4. CUPCAKE: This is a nice combo variation of a classical guitar piece written in 2008 called “Cupcake Batter”. • Featuring Tom Curiano on drums and RSM on rest. Recorded at Vinegar Hill Sound, Whales Through Space and Steel River.

5. STREET CLEANER: Written in Spring 2016. Here in NYC, we move our car from the street a few times a week so that the street cleaner can drive his cleaning beast through our street and suck up litter into its underbelly. Our cat is afraid of the street cleaner and runs away from the front window – I wrote this song from the persective of the guy who drives the street cleaner. “I see you rise up and gaze toward the sound with your one eye open, you look around / Is it the monster on the street again? / Is it the creature with the volume on ten? / Don’t worry girl, I’m just a street cleaner / Two times a week I swing by / I wont do no harm, I ain’t try-na eat-cha / I just gotta move on past your lawn..etc.” Featuring Joe Russo on drums, Steven E. Mallorca on trumpets, RSM on rest. Recorded at Reasonable Sound, Whales Through Space, Slow Jam King Uptown Studios, & Steel River.

6. HAPPY TO BE ALIVE: This one was written straight to paper in 2008. It is about health, the things we worry about, and relativity. • “This peeling lead paint turns to poisonous dust, when it gets inside your child’s mouth. There’s a cute little teddy bear waving at us, and he’s wavin’ with a quiet pout. There’s a feeling getting old - gettin old growin’ old, and it’s happenin’ to all of us / it’s a fact that’s a fact that we all need to trust / It’s a fact that we’re turning to dust. So be happy none of us trapped in a bus, going off a cliff straight to hell….. Bring forth the majesty / and poke your head out.” • Featuring Tom Curiano on Drums and RSM on rest. Rec at Vinegar Hill Sound, Whales Through Space, and Steel River.

7. MR. ROCK N ROLL: This song is written by “Lone Wolves” a favorite NYC band that I would go see as much as possible when I first moved to New York in 1993. Recently I played with them and I re-fell in love with this song and ask for their blessing to cover it on the album. • Featuring Joe Russo on drums and RSM on rest. Recorded at Reasonable Sound and Steel River.

8. CRUMBLIN’: This song was written in 2004. It could be about a lot of things but right now it’s my response to the political election debates. “Your world is slowly crumbling, you looked into the sky, no one feels like you do, You’re world is slowly crumbling on me. My world is slowly crumbling around you. So how’d you come to knowing, that you’d be unsatisfied?” • Featuring Tom Curiano & RSM on rest.

9. LUBRIDERM SNAKE: This song is big ridiculousness made by Ms. Dellaccio and I. We use it to march. I made a demo. A few months ago, when Joe heard it and said he wanted to try laying down drums to this song, I realized it was going on this record. Featuring Joe Russo on drums, Dan “the Hotch” Winer: on vocal aura. RSM on rest.

10. ARGENTINEAN BEAST: This was written around 2006. This song is named for the fierceness that Lautaro was displaying on his face while playing drums on this. All music and lyrics by Robert Mangano, Whales Through Space, BMI, except “Lubriderm Snake” by E. Dellaccio & RSM, and “Mr Rock n’ Roll” by Lone Wolves (Rick Bruccoleri, Orin Portnoy, and Richie Pomerantz) Courtesy of Wolfcubb Records.