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Strange Dust

by Zach Puls

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1.
Another Destination 03:14
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2.
Invitation To Love 05:28
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3.
Long Haul 06:19
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4.
Interlude 00:40
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5.
Nobody Knows My Name 02:55
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6.
The Outsider 01:36
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7.
The Wanderer 05:58
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8.
Lonesome At Last 04:50
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9.
"Strange Dust" Trailer 00:39
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about

First off, the title itself has been around me for over a decade: a
reference from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, when he describes the
part of a rambling drinking night where three-quarters of the party had
left and those who had stayed, he wrote, “continued on into the dimmer
hours and gathered strange dust from strange places.”

Another “Strange Dust”: Morrissey sings of a small holiday town
emptied out in the winter that the bombs forgot to destroy, until
“a strange dust lands on your hands / and on your face.”

I can remember hearing that song on a cassette tape at my first
apartment during a college summer in upstate New York. Driving
down dark empty country roads looking out the back window of a truck
at the blinking red lights of the radio towers receding in the distance.

Time passed away from those dark drives and I moved from that
small college town down to "the city of music," Nashville, Tennessee,
with a group of friends, or as I would say sometimes, "a gathering of
strange dust."

Those years hold a certain place in my memory, developing a kind
of magnetism around houses, people, and songs. Still, slow changes
occurred within these circles and a restlessness overtook me, so I
left for New York.

It was around this time that I began composing the songs that became
this album and eventually I recorded them in New York, over a couple
weeks in a garage at my mother's house and at my grandparent's old
summer house out in Long Island.

I can remember a mixtape my friends made in college called
A Gathering of Strange Dust, where everybody contributed a
song and then received two burned CD-R’s.

This album became kind of a tribute to those memories and friends,
and a way to look back, more alone than before, but older and with
other stories to tell.

credits

released December 20, 2019

All songs written and produced by Zach Puls

Mastered by Jeremy Winter

Video produced by Zach Puls
with additional camera work
by Ben Puls and Conor Belcher

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