Norman W. Long

*2026 stock. 100 copies limited edition* This new album is a journey from the personal and contested space of my apartment in Oakland, California, during the dot-com boom, and the housing crisis brought on by the gentrification of the early 2000s. From San Francisco, we expand to the refuge of a ranch in Woodside, California, and the desert garden of Noah Purifoy, where we are expanding to the self and the alter-destiny. The recordings explore the different ways we encounter and experience various forms of contestation, one where our presence contests a space, another where our position in that space is challenged, and how climate change affects the space we inhabit. Additionally, we explore how we are creative in the spaces we occupy, record, and remember as an act of contestation.