Oo-oo… it’s hard to find the beat today. 🥁🐵

My space-friends Captain Kerk & Troy beamed down a track called Freedom of Speech on 9/11—a date already heavy with sorrow, fear, and memories that never fade. This year, the day bled again with more violence from a terrible public assassination the day before. And instead of silence, they made something… as a record, a journal, a reflection on their observations of the human peoples from way up there in orbit. And of course I took the gig for the banana smoothies they make with their replicators and also as a way to respond and unleash the very complicated feelings brooding inside my fuzzy belly… and no, it's not from drinking too much banana smoothies.

Troy says the lyrics came through a Ouija board, reaching for voices beyond. I don't know enough about channeling spirits, but I know the words feel like they were informed by something high above. My hands hit the drum machine hard – each beat like a question: why does violence keep stealing the stage from hope?

This is just a sneak preview. It’s not out on streaming yet. But I want you to hear it first, not as a party, not as a joke—just as a piece of music trying to hold some of the weight of this day.

Please listen with care. And remember: freedom of speech, like peace, feels fragile. We can’t take it for granted.

So here it is, from Captain Kerk and Troy: Freedom of Speech

—Marcel Du Chimp 🐵🥁