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Reed, the Bay Area writer and cultural provocateur, had always understood music as inseparable from his larger project of dismantling literary and social conventions; here, his voice moves between rhythmic incantation, conversational storytelling, and philosophical musing while the musicians orbit around him—sometimes locking into hypnotic grooves, sometimes fragmenting into collective exploration. 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