Paper Airplanes, Pts. I & II

from Simple Music for Simple Times by Circular Reasoning

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lyrics

Last night I took off from Arlanda
Today I landed in L.A.
Elevator music clouds the hours
As we tear through skies of grey
Birds wonder ‘bout their placid cousins
So tense and noble every flight
Shiny, unaware and vacant
And without flappin’, what a plight

When all the planes were made of paper
Zephyrous phases ruled the sky
No sonic booms or trails of vapor
Just cyan blue a hundred miles high

There is a street in western Rinkeby
The paper boy still brings the times
Downtrodden from a day of riding
Smiles as he counts his Daims
Surrounded by a sea of tarmac
Over fences he can see
Explore architectural forests
Where lampposts leer between the trees

When all the planes were made of paper
Zephyrous phases ruled the sky
No sonic booms or trails of vapor
Just cyan blue a hundred miles high

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from Simple Music for Simple Times, released February 29, 2024
Written by Mikko Nynäs

Keyboards: Mikko Nynäs
Tenor Sax: Charlie Phillips
Trombone: Christian Read
Bari Sax: Noah Baseleon-Abbott
Trumpet: Jon Vance
Guitars: James Vincent Sloan
Bass: David Murray
Drums: Tai Taitano

Mixing: Mikko Nynäs
Mastering: Rachel Field at Resonant Mastering

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Circular Reasoning Seattle, Washington

Circular Reasoning is an unconventional retrofitting of R&B and funk from the fertile grounds of the Seattle music scene, overlaying psychedelic, jazzy abstractions over old-school stone grooves. Materialized in the U-District by arranger/keyboardist Mikko Nynäs, CR has been romping around the Seattle area since 2011, spewing novel sounds and unorthodox lyricism. ... more