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Individual tracks with listening surfaces, lyrics, notes, and release context.

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Run Baby Run

“Run Baby Run (Carnival)” pulls the listener into MUSIATA’s strange, seductive carnival world — a place where love, spectacle, danger, and history…

Cover image for “Distance” showing a black-and-white courtyard of apartment buildings in falling snow, with a narrow sidewalk leading toward the center

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Distance

Distance is a haunting song about love constrained by manipulation, proximity, and psychological control. Told from the edge of danger rather than…

Black-and-white cover image showing a person reclining in a hammock beneath a tarp outdoors, with boots in the foreground and a quiet, transient mood

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Hobo Heart

Hobo Heart is a bleak, poetic survival song about betrayal, collapse, and the hard work of finding your own sound after illusion…

Cover image for “Click Clack” showing an empty grand train station hall with a roped-off piano beneath a large arched window and Amtrak waiting room doors.

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Click Clack

Click Clack deepens the world introduced by Floorboards, but with more force, certainty, and personal consequence. Where the earlier track reads patterns…

Cover image for “Open Hands” showing two empty wooden chairs on a dock facing a quiet lake at dusk, with winter trees and a fading sky in the distance.

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Open Hands

Open Hands is a graceful release song about loosening attachment without losing softness. Blending heartbreak, self-possession, and forward motion, the track turns…

Album cover for “Copper and Cream” by MU51474 showing a split scene: a copper-toned open pit mine with an elephant on the left, and the St. Louis skyline with the Gateway Arch and an American flag on the right.

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Copper & Cream

Copper & Cream is a reflective, emotionally charged song about interracial love shaped by history, distance, and inherited wounds. Moving between Lusaka,…

Black cover image for Quiet Is A Lie featuring the title handwritten in soft gold script at the center

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Quiet Is A Lie

Quiet Is A Lie is the album’s central thesis turned into a street-level broadcast. Through stoops, sirens, rent, neon, thin walls, and…

Cover art for “Mirror” by MU51474 featuring a dark silhouetted figure against a vivid abstract burst of color with a yellow circle over the chest and the title Quiet Is a Lie

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Mirror

Mirror is a fierce, theatrical confrontation with performance, image, and the machinery of self-erasure. Moving through fame, branding, money, surveillance, and spiritual…