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Blind Date

by Cantor Dust

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1.
In the Beginning There Was Nothing (prologue) 01:28
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2.
Badly Beaten Man on a Worn Path 03:32
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3.
That Which He'd Wished He'd Been Told (nothing is real) 03:32
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4.
The Statement That Exemplifies His Drive 01:58
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5.
When His Universe Began 01:19
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6.
A Premonition and a Call from Space 02:06
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7.
The Day He Made Contact (that was that) 03:03
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8.
Illuminated Beneath The Saucer (spare no details) 03:02
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9.
Ascension Via Tractor Beam 00:48
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10.
Insecure in a Small Silver Room 03:29
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11.
Blind Date 03:17
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12.
An Account of Disappointment 02:14
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13.
The Day they Finally Spoke (it's not you) 04:37
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14.
Descension Via Gravity 02:24
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15.
The Dying Man Ends His Summarized Anecdote 01:01
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16.
Epilogue 02:15
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BLIND DATE is a tale, laden with whimsy, of a guy who, for all of his life, has felt especially blessed, after having been visited in a dream by extra-terrestrials bringing to him the promise that one day they would return, and that he would then join them in a better place. When the day finally came, our hero was lifted gracefully to their ship, and spent many months within its starch silver walls. What neither party had anticipated, however, was that interplanetary relationships can be quite complicated . . .

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released November 1, 2010

All of it by Mark Klassen

Review of BLIND DATE in the UNITER
by Catherine van Reenen

I’m 85 per cent sure that Cantor Dust, an experimental rock band consisting solely of Mark Klassen, is strangely awesome. But I’m 15 per cent sure that I’m not supposed to think this. The intricate piano playing, epic cymbals and Klassen’s ethereal voice make the perfect synthesis for what I’m 85 per cent sure is a concept album telling the exciting and heart-wrenching story of a guy who gets abducted by aliens. But I still have the nagging 15 per cent suspicion that Cantor Dust is laughing at me while I think about this album like it’s a MENSA test because Klassen’s lyrics don’t always match its epic-Eno-esque resonance: “The last thing I remember was blowing my load before everything faded to black, and that must have been when they beamed me up.” With lyrics like that I’m 85 per cent sure that Blind Date is worth a listen.

www.uniter.ca/view/6004/

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Cantor Dust Winnipeg, Manitoba

The avant-prog, surreal storytelling project Cantor Dust is singer/pianist Mark Klassen, accompanied by electric cellist Natanielle Felicitas, currently exploring the emptiness that surrounds us as we float through space in search of light.

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