Behavior & Mayako XO - Free World LPFree World is the first full length issue from an ongoing collaboration between Behavior (Bedros Yeretzian, Evan Burrows, Justin Tenney, Robbie Cody) and Mayako XO (Sara Gernsbacher). It was tracked between 2019 and 2020 and assembled over the course of the last year in Los Angeles. The album reflects its creation under open ended yet intent circumstances. Whats recorded is a tangled pas de deux between discredited and demonstrative characters,

we spoke to saxophonist François Jeanneau

A fever dream of spoken word folk extremes that hits pretty hard

Using fictional characters

Orisha-adorned double bass drum kit

both of which have sections of near-silence mixed in with the explosions

rewriting the past

An atmospheric new mix by producer and artist Connor Hanwick (Dondadi

000 cassettes now sits with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and artist Alan Dunn has been granted access to select excerpts from it and curate sonic conversations from others

including A Clockwork Orange and his masterpiece

A one time pressing of 300

The result feels like being led through a series of scenes devoid of context or direction

arising from the Beach Boys’ melancholic paen to encountering a past lover who has cut her hair off