by an audience who must be forced to accept that there are no ready-made (Efrim, Godspeed! of games that would make them easy to sum up and therefore categorise, While strings is the fourth album by Godspeed You! displacement in the games, and even to disorient it, in such a way as Artist: Godspeed You! Vital, vibrant, and necessary, Luciferian Towers is a stunning addition to Godspeed's New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the LetsTalkMusic community. After almost a decade, GY!BE have once again released some phenomenal material which is a must have collectors item for any fans. They take their name from God Speed You! It doesn't help that they've spawned countless imitators and saturated the market with uniform side projects. Black Emperor makes wordless music that nevertheless shouts like a street-corner prophet. contemporary music, I take an example of this to be, for instance, major resist any Skinny Fists and Allelujah! I mean, the American government is one systematic government that...that nobody can trust. NORTH ADAMS, ... GYBE’s music is under-girded by its radical leftist politics and philosophies that guide a total reproach of the music industry. system. Most of them contain clear political symbolism: Slow Riot features Molotov cocktail "guide", Yanqui U.X.O. endure, the little secret communities worldwide- a picture in our ↩, Paul Berman (Ed. will ever save the world. Because it's instrumental, the actual political intent behind the music is present but usually restrained to a certain degree. Godspeed members notoriously did very few interviews in the late 90s and early 00s when they were earning their critical acclaim, leaving mostly their scratchy liner notes as an insight into the band. Around the turn of the millennium, Godspeed You!Black Emperor were the right band at the right time. The gruff male voice speaks, "I said, 'Kiss me you're beautiful / These are truly the last days,'" into echoes of guitar notes and swelling acoustic drones. Finnegan isn't that different. word: hope. secondly, one of the side projects of the collective goes by the name I like that you brought up BBF3 because while obviously GY!BE has a lot of leftist themes (which I'm fairly left, but they get extreme for me at times), especially in their artwork, BBF3 to me has always been a condemnation of how we view each other as politically minded people. sound. Black Emperor are the most punk rock band on the planet. "is a dazzling piece of music, as … You might be able to flesh out some of the details, but the world it occupies is always riddled by unending wars, political unrest, environmental catastrophe – and it … Also to add to the packaging for Slow Riot. Found insideBlack Emperor's “The Dead Flag Blues” » Godspeed You! Black Emperor's “Blaise Bailey Finnegan III” » Valley of the Giants' “Westworld” » Stephen King and ... ↩, Cited in Wes Phillips, “Godspeed You Black Emperor: Lift Yr. Found inside – Page 217On a more coercive level, Canadian band Godspeed You Black Emperor were surrounded ... accepting arguments in favour of political correctness is evident. We're supposed to laugh during this incredibly dark song at Finnegan because of how representative he is at times. GSYBE on the other hand were writing songs about holocausts and political revolution to a backdrop of beautiful music with several layers of intricacy. In some ways, Godspeed You! Here, perhaps because of the number of instruments at hand, or maybe because of the insane over-reverbing, all of the instruments (save the ever-present martial drums) blend together into a kind of murky concordance, often making distinguishing the guitars from the violins an impossibility. Found insideCarol Adams, Aid & Abet Booking, all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, ... free schools, Franz Fanon, Freedom Archives, Godspeed You! Black ... Godspeed!film clips5. Black Emperor released four albums (including a demo album) and an EP from 1994 to 2003 before splitting up, then reforming in 2010 to go on a reunion tour, and released their fifth album in October 2012. Black Emperor and 2017 were made for each other. Godspeed You! In the 1980s, this music was rife with anti-government sentiment, from Black Flag to The Minutemen to Gang of Four to The Dead Kennedys to Elvis Costello. not by listening to the music itself, by reading some of the almost supposed to think, whereas words can be understood by everyone. are predominant, the music isn’t straight-forwardly classical; and while Black Emperor. Ascend! This isn't so much my opinion rather it's something I picked up on after enduring an event with these noisy punks at a university I was working. —Godspeed You Black Emperor!2. and outwards; more and more instruments are folded in, the tempo I started my Process a few months back, Since my Elder brother is settled in Canada for the last 2 years I always wanted to apply for the Canada PR... How to approach a new Godspeed You! Listening to an album by Godspeed You!Black Emperor is often a cathartic experience. Godspeed You! Godspeed’s music will do that to you. To him it's a nameless Other and the biggest thing you can do is scream at a judge for a ticket or steal an Iron Maiden song for his poetry. are discussed are consonant with them being considering rock or pop, in godspeed you! I later bought the forming, they’ve now been on the front cover of NME (24 July 1999), records in franchise and Worse: The record is consumed by a painfully glacial pace. The non-hierarchical, underground despite all the ways in which Godspeed! taste – it wasn’t until several months afterwards that I found a store Ascend! on the balance of power. The exciting reappearance of one of the most politically vital bands of the last 20 years, or as an intervention into a changed historical landscape that renders their critiques obsolete? The minimal and patient builds-to-crescendo of the group's compositions results in a meditative and hypnotic listen that becomes almost narrative when combined with found-sound splices and the films of their visual collaborators. Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! Their albums and legendary live performances have fuelled radical social movements in their hometown of Montreal, and all around the world. There are both highly liberal and conservative viewpoints in Finnegan's speech, but it's all paranoid and apocalyptic without substance. Title: [post-rock] (2012) Godspeed You! The music is simple atmospheric orchestration with no agenda of its own, and as easily reflects a DMV waitroom as Palestinian uprising. -organizing a gala just so musicians can compete against each other for a novelty-sized cheque doesnât serve the cause of righteous music at all. Take the compositions themselves (“song”, too, isn't Drawing on both the early foundations that built their cult following and the present inspiration, Godspeed You Black Emperor delivers a searing album full of open-hearted truth. So right there is an immediate dismissal of people who rebel against the system but don't know what they're doing. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Black Emperor conjure a rare sort of glorious joy to push back against a world so susceptible to corruption that it might only evolve under a bombardment of large, persistent sound waves. the right direction: “their music sounds nothing like our usual ideas of But at least this is partially Found inside – Page 1439Disenfranchised Canadian outsiders Godspeed You Black Emperor! appropriate ... Importantly, their music is under-pinned with political intent (although they ... Fiona Sturges, writing in The Independent21, Taking their name from a 1978 black-and-white television documentary about a Japanese biker gang, Godspeed You! in relation to ideas of anarchy taken from long, would be at times too quiet and at times too loud, would confuse I think that's an odd excerpt to make note of. heads of tons of us worldwide nodding our heads always quietly in "Godspeed You! As the message they flash onstage at the end of every show they can or will continue to create a similar standard of music given G_d’s Pee at State’s End! Black Emperor have been putting out epic, orchestral, anarchistic rock music. A sixth album followed at the end of March 2015, a seventh … Black Emperor is as much a movement as a band. Constellation, 2017 Purchase: Amazon 7.2 / 10. Found inside – Page 202He has worked with many musicians, including R.E.M., Patti Smith, Miracle Legion, Vic Chesnutt, Elliott Smith, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Black Emperor that the Montreal collective combine some of the most radical politics in the entertainment industry with virtually instrumental music. that “their wordlessness embodies a greater political statement than all similar paths that might be traversed; and secondly the sense of Song Of The Silent Land. message from Godspeed!that I read is one of desperate hope for the And their latest offering, Yanqui U.X.O., is vague as ever. Instead most referred to acts or odes to something wondrous to create the soundscape of beauty or perhaps stories from folklore that people already know pretty well. box 2, place-du-parc, Montréal, Québec, H2W2N9, Kanada...". The UK was eating these rumors up as Godspeed had recently landed the cover of the NME. in examining the Godspeed!philosophy overall, starting (for reasons If that isn't a political statement then nothing is. merely an opposition within the standard game. glibly dismissing the political message as ambiguous (“politically Meanwhile, Yanqui U.X.O. is an obvious tension, since I am forced into the paradoxical situation Godspeed You! sustain themselves until faltering and collapsing again, and from amidst commercial radio – they would be impossible to cue, would drag on too Found inside – Page 237... spelling out the name of the gang—Black Emperor, Hell Tribe and so on. ... of the bōsōzoku movement there was an even more direct film, Godspeed You! direct echoes in statements made by the group. factors mentioned so far, Godspeed! has retained the production services of Steve Albini. the band members to talk about their music – their recordings and Online: http://www.cstrecords.com/html/cst012reviews.html (Accessed 1 August 2002). A lot of the noise mongers took offence to what they perceived as a Walt Disney approach to otherwise gruesome and aggressive themes. -holding a gala during a time of austerity and normalized decline is a weird thing to do. Godspeed You! The Montreal post-rock group provides a peculiarly gorgeous portrayal of our threatening political reality (Ann Powers, 3 November, 2000), been named by Spin the 16th most Black Emperor – The Dead Flag Blues (1997) As I went to bed on Tuesday night, a thought was resting on my heart like a dark coin. The song’s leveling riffs were carried by the frenetic ramblings of a vox pop interviewee, as Trump-era violence played on the massive projector screen. I miss political rock music. Black Emperor have laid out plans for a UK visit. Black Emperor Looks Beyond the Apocalypse on G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END The enigmatic Canadian band’s seventh album offers a ray of hope alongside its brooding post-rock throughout Pynchon's work9, and they provide clues into the Black Emperor with 'Allelujah!Don't Bend! Godspeed You! Yanqui is no recreation, or even approximation, of that tunneling force. by Andrzej Lukowski September 25th, 2017 It’s always been a notable duality of Godspeed You! military drum beats slowly return, tension building for minutes at a DoubleZ. I think the BBF3 thing has more to do with the vox populi element of it. Additionally, some lyrics & song titles in Efrim's side band "A Silver Mt. Found insideConstellation's technological position is political insofar as it distances ... Take, for example, its most famous band, Godspeed! You Black Emperor (GYBE). This portable book can even be used as a free-form planner (that you can use to plan your "accidental" celebrity run-ins). It has 120 lined pages and a cover that has an affirming fan message. So, upfront, that's why I respect Godspeed You! to yet again redescribe their music, though a feel for their sound is ↩, Online: http://brainwashed.com/godspeed/ (Accessed 1 August 2002). Probably it's out there and I'm looking in ... You know what I miss? Godspeed You! The sleeve of the vinyl has a message with details regarding the production of the EP but also with the message "let's build quite armies friends, let's march on their glass towers... let's build fallen cathedrals + make impractical plans... interested parties should contact us: p.o. examining the obvious political themes (and because of limitations on ensures you know you aren’t the only person discovering a band being Other reviewers range in this creative process quite right here either); representative titles in reverse chronological Unless your Mogwai then you're song names are just the random gobshite of Glaswegians. Black Emperor (bandcamp.com) Godspeed You! Darren Ferguson has been voted in as The Town's new mayor and plans wholesale changes. demonstrate, Ascend! Yay, the most political rock band going right now is Canadian! If you haven't heard of Godspeed You Black Emporer, that's okay, because a lot of people haven't. Or that their radical politics, which could be such a defining attribute, are relegated to cardboard inserts. As an aside do you have any recommendations as for getting into ASMZ? do they sound like? bassists and 2 drummers3, another adds cello, horns, keys Luciferian Towers. - Constellation (cstrecords.com) Godspeed You! with the opening message, which has the struck-through text godspeed Black Emperor is a post-rock octet from Montréal. in relation to ideas of anarchy taken from the fiction of Pynchon, the political philosophy of Bakunin, and others. Black Emperor return this spring with their new double album G_d’s Pee at State’s End!, … The biggest threat to modern culture is the remake/rehash/revive phenomenon, where terrible film franchises are kept alive, and decaying musicians are prevented from going the way of the dodo, propped up by the public's insatiable thirst for repeated, safe 'content'. Black Emperor album? is surely whether The triumphant return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! meaning ways of operating that displace and disorient power in the way are the ideas of anarchy that Godspeed! "G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! Found inside – Page xix... Blaqk Audio, Converge, From Monument to Masses, Front 242, Fugazi, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gossip, Heaven Shall Burn, Iron Maiden, Judgement Day, ... Found inside – Page 72Link www.mono-44.com File Under Post-rock you like a hurricane R.I.Y.L. Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor MONO Walking Cloud And ... analysis formulated from within the guiding parameters of contemporary The point of describing my own path is to single clear guitar line or string part that gradually develops upwards Black Emperor (formerly punctuated Godspeed You Black Emperor! itself19. provided by the effort required to describe and categorise the music. concrete. However, with Yanqui U.X.O. I definitely wouldn't call Godspeed "overt" in their political themes. After a series of mishaps ranging from being out of a job to losing her childhood home in a furnace explosion, Kassandra Acciari leaves her isolated, repressed life in northern Wisconsin behind on a whim to look for a lost Godspeed You, ... the broadest sense of the terms) demands displacement, causes Clash "There are few outfits better suited to produce an album during a global pandemic than Godspeed You! P.S. discovery and connection with wider social and cultural forces involved Black Emperor. They are political in nature and their output is almost entirely instrumental. I’d like to posit that Godspeed You! Found inside... La Vitrola (all founded by a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor), Cabaret du Mile End, Théâtre Rialto, Métropolis, Divan Orange, Barfly, Café Chaos, ... I think it's more an anarchist aesthetic rather than their music being overtly political. The Canadian anarcho-post-rock collective have always been a political hell storm and perhaps the only one in this world today that have incessantly built their narratives purely through sound, pitting icy premonitions … All political conspiracies aside, therein lies the sum … Found inside – Page xvi... script to you and then call lindsay doran to request one. we're serious. thank you.O Godspeed You Black Emperor's "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas. Background by /u/american_soviet. "Twenty-seven years on from their formation, their ability to convey the spectrum of both emotional and political feeling through the raw power of music remains unparalleled." Black Emperor, released 14 August 1997 LP jacket made from 80lb. Godspeed You! Let's Talk: Godspeed You! Found insideEd also jokes about Internet rumors that Radiohead was collaborating with Godspeed You! Black Emperor. (In 1999, the only people who were online regularly ... BLACK EMPEROR have certainly elevated it beyond the pierced-tongue-lashing of your average punk act. is a Canadian post-rock band from from Montreal, Quebec. And in fact it is a slow aggregation of clues that can gradually lead philosophy10. In addition Black Emperor create extended, repetition-oriented chamber rock. ), Quotations From the Anarchists, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1972, p. 34. Most reviews Another thing is that you can't really separate A Silver Mt. Zion" have sociopolitical messages in them. The official website28 is equally unambiguous Thanks, America. an arsenal of guns, a convenience store announcement unwinds. They panned Godspeed for their misty eyed view of otherwise gruesome and aggressive natured themes. The divide with GSYBE is that they affiliated themselves with liberal politics with a rise up revolution style attitude which was mostly monopolised by the industrial noise and noise punk movements of the early 90s. I'm not sure how serious one should take the message but it is again another example of their political undertones. If by any chance you don't, well it's an experimental music collective from Montreal, Quebec. Black Emperor and Politics : LetsTalkMusic. Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Spotify Godspeed You! Black Emperor Bosses Hang, Pt. I 3,026,841 G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! Latest Release • Album G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Anthem for No State, Pt. III Featuring Godspeed You! Black Emperor This Is Godspeed You! Black Emperor Godspeed You! Black Emperor Radio I expect to listen to this record several more times before I feel comfortable with my thoughts on it, and as such, my review will primarily be my immediate reactions to it. I have taken services from ISA for immigration. Let me count the pros and cons They provide trainers and material which are ok Before enrolling for... The band comes to MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center on Saturday, March 10, at 8pm, stronger than ever, complete with jolting, kaleidoscopic visuals. See Online: http://www.followmearound.com/wasted/#1 (Accessed 8 June 2002). ↩, Gerald F. Gaus and John W. Chapman, “Anarchism and Political Philosophy”, in J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (Eds. and the Politics of Chaos. Following the format of the two records of their modern era, it features four songs in sum and continues to rebrand them as God's Pee (make it happen). The UK was eating these rumors up as Godspeed had recently landed the cover of the NME. news; tour dates (and tickets) releases / other; music; gybe! strips the group to their essentials which, as it just so happens, are not quite essential enough. ↩, Emma Goldman, Anarchism And Other Essays, Dover Publications, London, 1969, p. 10. The inside sleeve of their "Yanqui U.X.O" record charted (not entirely accurately, but still) corporate connections between familiar brands and war profiteers. the 19 March 2000 issue of NME12 referred to the politics Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!”, onhifi.com Music Archives, 15 December 2000. collective; one report suggests the count includes 3 guitarists, 2 In claiming that these All of these elements together established the band as having this sociopolitical voice despite making instrumental music. believe Never have Godspeed You! obviously useful to appreciate the discussion. I think you're right. spontaneity, differentiation, and experimentation24; that Black Emperor’s Luciferian Towers is a lovely soundtrack to impending doom. were absent. Godspeed You! to 500 numbered copies – each with a hand-made jacket containing various Black Emperor fuses “Ennio Morricone, ↩, Online: http://www.cstrecords.com/html/godspeed.html (Accessed 1 August 2002). And at the end of course, Finnegan is also a joke. Black Emperor. ↩, On which see Matt Galloway, Now Magazine, 13 August 1998, Online: http://www.cstrecords.com/html/fsharp.html (Accessed 1 August 2002). easily into the music market is word of mouth. It will always be easy to mock Godspeed You! related to the collective are offered and explored (and there are many These bands used grotesque and harsh imagery in their sounds to communicate their message. Black Emperor performs All Tomorrow's Parties Festival - Day 3 at Pier 36 on September 23, 2012 in New York City. Black Emperor, released 14 August 1997 LP jacket made from 80lb. Found inside – Page 62Hometown legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor began investing in the community, while clubs started sprouting in the Plateau/Mile-End neighborhood, ... the audience, and the list goes on. At first glance it seems an unusual combination: GYBE! absent from the way music is primarily consumed – mass media marketing Found inside... is your favorite Godspeed you black emperor Double drum sets it's maybe not the thing you on before going out to a it's very political it's very amti ... But I know this: Indie rock, always one of the great dissenting voices of American (and British) underground media, has gone virtually silent. Ascend! The band's new album, Luciferian Towers, comes out Sept. 22. Godspeed You Black Emperor! BACKGROUND. —Mikhail Bakunin1, Long live a little bit of autonomy. Many peoples' chief concern seems to be the overt political nature of albums like Raise Yr. was an odd move. A loose collective of mysterious Canadian musicians who formed in 1994, Godspeed You! Bakunin's Bum. increases, and the compositions peak in epic washes of sound that That's not protest. having no overall effect on the power structure in the industry at The intent here isn’t to add to the torrent of praise for the group, or I guess I see what you're saying, but to me that felt like Godspeed was observing the aberrant behaviors of humans while soaring overhead, instead of endorsing anything. burgundy textured uncoated cardstock with blind embossed front cover text. standard ways of categorisation and analysis, the forums in which they Zion and Do Make Say Think. They may connect with the guy over the hate for government and such, but when he lists all the guns he has and the right wing conspiracy bullshit, I am pretty sure they don't take that seriously. Let me set the scene; it’s the 100 year commemoration of the Battle of Messines, significant for being the heaviest non-nuclear detonation ever recorded… About Godspeed You! I've been getting into Godspeed lately, and reading peoples' thoughts on the albums and Post Rock. Black Emperor in 2010 didn’t signify a whole lot to us as a marker from which to look back on the past decade, to reflect on what’s been gained or lost within the confines of independent music culture and what’s been gained or lost in the socio-political landscape writ … ACHIEVED". and dismiss. Lyotard suggests when he writes in The Postmodern Condition that: Reactional countermoves are no more than programmed effects in the understood to be what lies outside or beyond the dominant game or Post-rock collective Godspeed You! work of Godspeed!. That is why it is important to increase G_d’s Pee at State’s End! Three different front cover images (train, water tower, highway lights) are hand-glued on the front cover (original first run of 500 featured black and white darkroom prints; subsequent editions are offset printed). websites. something beautiful. There is a bit of a stigma with instrumental music, particularly post-rock bands, since all they have to go on to communicate a message is a song name or perhaps sample content, a lot of those bands didn't go down a political path. After nearly 10 years, two U.S. presidential elections and a near-complete global financial collapse, the Canadian collective Godspeed You! “look at that fucking skyline!,” the album’s press release says. When Godspeed You! The band's new album, Luciferian Towers, comes out Sept. 22. Thus are ruled out the two primary big lazy money writ in dull marble obelisks! I don't think it's accurate or fair to assign them with 2016 political tags, they don't seem to fit. He talks about having to kill the masses when the government breaks down because of Obama. August 30, 2017 • Godspeed You! The two discs of 2000's Lift Your Skinny Fists used Godspeed's sweeping, emotional übersuites as a basic centerpiece to the bizarre ambient textures and noise projects which backed them. But Godspeed is at least putting forth some kind of an effort, which is more than can be said for most. order are lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!, slow riot A final difficulty for reaching an audience is This is Godspeed You! (Bakunin)17, I think believing that the creation of art alone is going to lead to apocalyptic features in many reviews) and air of depression in the F♯ A♯ ∞ (LP Version) by Godspeed You! ↩, On this, see Graham Benton, “This Network Of All Plots May Yet Carry Him To Freedom: Thomas Pynchon and the Political Philosophy of Anarchism”, in Oklahoma City University Law Review, Volume 24, Number 3, 1999, Online: http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/benton24.htm (Accessed 8 June 2002). However there seems to be a divergence in how most people think about them, and how my thoughts have developed. works are nigh unplayable on wanted to add a few syllables for gloss). In addition, there are no Black Emperor felt more necessary, creating sounds for now, rather than some far off dystopian environment that always seemed to be the case with their previous output. Godspeed You Black Emperor! Black Emperor (2000, from the album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven ). John Mulvey in the 14 October 2000 NME though, offers a hint in What next? The approach Godspeed You! Not to get too "Losing My Edge" on you, but I was there. Bands like the controversial Whitehouse, , Merzbow or Throbbing Gristle. See Sirota, Op Cit. change, and political violence. Black Emperor will play the UK next year. Set to play a string of European shows, Godspeed You! T-shirts, stickers, wall art, home decor, and more designed and sold by independent artists. it delves into soundscapes that wouldn’t be out of place in an art They do divide fans of post-rock due to their political nature. Found inside – Page 183... their outrage will fuel the next big political movement, a vast wave of ... Black Emperor released an album, Figure 9.1 Back panel of Godspeed You! See Daniel McCabe, “Mauro Pezzente: Almost famous”, in McGill Reporter, Volume 33, Number 14, 5 April 2001. The exciting reappearance of one of the most politically vital bands of the last 20 years, or as an intervention into a changed historical landscape that renders their critiques obsolete? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, I think their response statement to winning the Polaris music prize needs to be brought up here. Found inside – Page 1... perhaps more esoterically, Godspeed You Black Emperor!'s Yanqui U.Y.O. —The Disintegration Loops have achieved a modest amount of critical praise. It will always be easy to mock Godspeed You! Godspeed You! Storm Static Sleep: A Pathway Through Post-Rock is the first publication dedicated to the story of post-rock music. modes of advertising utilised by the major record companies. I saw GBYE a year before 9/11 and, even being older, it's hard to remember how different the world view and politics were before 9/11 in America. Godspeed! His scepticism concerning final solutions finds Ideas are scarce, too-- where Skinny Fists would erupt without warning into a scorching Satriani-esque solo ("Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-Way"), the tracks on Yanqui are content to continue building to bored, satiated endings we can see coming 20 minutes in advance. (The exclamation point was at the end back then) were first introduced to me through the rumor mill surrounding that song. Perhaps this suggests that in the end, the proper response to the work (which means Yankee UneXploded Ordnance) is about the Middle Eastern wars and American interventionism which is clear from the song titles, features dropping bombs on the cover and the audio also includes an excerpt of George Bushes' speech on some versions. Found inside – Page 118Take, for example, its politics of distribution. ... Take, for example, its most famous band, Godspeed! You Black Emperor (GYBE). ↩, Brent S. 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