The Life of Ripple (K​-​44) EP, by Sean Curtis Patrick

The Life of Ripple (K-44) EP

by Sean Curtis Patrick

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1.	Pods 02:28
2.	The Life of Ripple (K-44) 04:28	buy track
3.	Dorsal Breach 03:36
4.	Fogbanks 05:16

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All money raised will be matched (matching as much as I possibly can) and donated 50/50 to The Whale Museum (www.whalemuseum.org) AND The Center for Whale Research (www.whaleresearch.com) Both in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington.

Conceptualized via a live stream on 02/16/23 and re-recorded the next day. The title track is named after and dedicated to the memory of K-44, AKA "Ripple", a Southern Resident Killer Whale who died sometime in the last year at the young age of 11. His death is somewhat mysterious but nonetheless quite tragic. Most likely, he was struck by a boat or tangled in fishing nets. He was one of less than two dozen in his pod, the local K-Pod, who mainly live and hunt around the San Juan Islands and up and down the coast of the Pacific Northwest. Orcas can live up to 90 years old and live within a fairly harmonious matrilineal organization. They have always been my mother and my favorite whale, alongside the Humpback Whale. I feel so incredibly privileged to now call their area of reign home and I can't wait to spend more time along the shorelines, watching them hunt and play...
((This ep is designed to be played in order and on repeat))

The instruments used are as followed:
2022 Custom Buchla 200/208
1958 Nagra III
1971 Nagra IV-L (ASC Mod)
1981 Roland CR-5000
1978 Korg MS-20
2013 Teenage Engineering OP-1
2022 Critter & Guitari Organelle
2017 Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer
2002 Electro Harmonix 16 Second Delay

Samples of the J & K Pods begin and end the title track and are from recordings provided by the Whale Museum. (whalemuseum.org/pages/listen)

Album cover from the first ferry out to Orcas Island, 02/04/22.

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released May 26, 2023

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Sean Curtis Patrick Bellingham, Washington

I do a lot of things at an alright capacity. I love my life and I love my partner in it.

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