**2025 Stock**  With Another Song of Civilization, Darrell DeVore digs even deeper into his personal and musical archives, offering a kaleidoscopic array of recovered recordings, broken-off threads, and newly reanimated ensembles. Long overlooked, Darrell DeVore’s music has come to stand as a testament to restless experimentation—at once an altar to lost forms and a laboratory for making sense of new combinations. Here, the guiding hand is affectionate but mischievous: one minute finds a sauntering homemade rhythm section underpinning an incantatory vocal, the next a hypnotic stretch of effects-laden reeds suddenly undercut by environmental noise, handclaps, or oddball recitation. Tape hiss, the signature of DeVore’s DIY practice, is no longer an artifact to be erased but a veil that unites the proceedings—recalling the lo-fi charm of 1970s American tape art and the anarchic enthusiasm of outsider jazz.

Much like the previous volumes, but even less constrained by category, every moment on Another Song of Civilization is a negotiation. Darrell DeVore calls upon global traditions (chant, percussion, tribal drones) as both building blocks and ghosts: familiar patterns dissolve into angular abstraction, while grooves crater into spoken memories, raw group improvisation, and intonations that could be remembered half-truths or pure invention. The result is a record that, rather than mapping civilization as progress, treats it as a terrain of accidents, correspondence, and endless syncretism. Now lovingly reissued and sequenced for new ears, the album feels like a message from a world where play and inquiry were always more important than polish or hierarchy—a pre-digital, all-analog summary of the strange beauty found on the path between ancient ritual, modern confusion, and ongoing artistic risk. Another Song of Civilization invites listeners to pull up a seat in DeVore’s creative circle, where the stories are unfinished and everyone’s contribution leaves a trace, however fleeting, in the spontaneous song of collective memory.