Serious Business

Spektral Quartet

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This Album Is Not Funny.

More accurately, playing this album will not induce the brand of gut-busting, teary-eyed revelry that an episode of Chappelle’s Show or a YouTube clip of Anna Karkowska’s vibrato will. It is funny like the idea of a Rothko turning the stomachs of well-heeled gluttons at the Four Seasons is funny, or how anything Andy Kaufman ever suited up for is funny. It might be a little uncomfortable, rings clear in its truth, and sometimes reveals itself gradually.

As a quartet, we are drawn to virtuosic string writing like flies

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Tracklist

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1.
Many Many Cadences
08:36
2.
The Ancestral Mousetrap - No. 1. Killing the Ape
04:32
3.
The Ancestral Mousetrap - No. 2. The Old Woman's Breakfast
01:33
4.
The Ancestral Mousetrap - No. 3. Oh My God I'll Never Get Home
01:51
5.
The Ancestral Mousetrap - No. 4. Bringing a Dead Man Back Into Life
04:17
6.
The Ancestral Mousetrap - No. 5. The Ancestral Mousetrap
04:08
7.
"String Quartet No. 30 in E-Flat Major, Hob. III:38 ""The Joke"" - I. Allegro moderato"
05:05
8.
"String Quartet No. 30 in E-Flat Major, Hob. III:38 ""The Joke"" - II. Scherzo: Allegro"
03:15
9.
"String Quartet No. 30 in E-Flat Major, Hob. III:38 ""The Joke"" - III. Largo e sostenuto"
04:46
10.
"String Quartet No. 30 in E-Flat Major, Hob. III:38 ""The Joke"" - IV. Presto"
03:12
11.
Hack - Set 1: No. 1. Lenny Bruce
03:33
12.
Hack - Set 1: No. 2. Sarah Silverman
00:49
13.
Hack - Set 1: No. 3. Dave Chappelle
01:03
14.
Hack - Set 2: No. 4. George Carlin
02:17
15.
Hack - Set 2: No. 5. Robin Williams No. 1
00:41
16.
Hack - Set 2: No. 6. Dick Gregory
01:35
17.
Hack - Set 2: No. 7. Professor Irwin Corey
01:12
18.
Hack - Set 3: No. 8. Rodney Dangerfield Nos. 1-2
00:15
19.
Hack - Set 3: No. 9. Sam Kinison
01:13
20.
Hack - Set 3: No. 10. Rodney Dangerfield No. 3
00:10
21.
Hack - Set 3: No. 11. Redd Foxx
00:53
22.
Hack - Set 3: No. 12. Rodney Dangerfield Nos. 4-5
00:14
23.
Hack - Set 3: No. 13. Kumail Nanjiani
00:44
24.
Hack - Set 3: No. 14. Rodney Dangerfield Nos. 6-7
00:21
25.
Hack - Set 3: No. 15. Mort Sahl
01:14
26.
Hack - Set 3: No. 16. Rodney Dangerfield No. 8
00:09
27.
Hack - Set 3: No. 17. Susie Essman
00:42
28.
Hack - Set 3: No. 18. Rodney Dangerfield No. 9
00:15
29.
Hack - Set 4: No. 19. Richard Pryor
02:18
30.
Hack - Set 4: No. 20. Robin Williams No. 2
01:02
31.
Hack - Set 4: No. 21. Ms. Pat
01:29
32.
Hack - Set 4: No. 22. Tig Notaro
02:02

Total time: 01:05:26

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