Someday I’d like to be an old man who sits in museums with a sketchpad and tries to draw the paintings. In the meantime, I’m trying to identify a song that surfaced in my speakers the other day, a burst of fuzzed-out psychedelia in a language I do not recognize. After two minutes and eighteen seconds of pure delight that sounds like the Platonic ideal of 1971, it abruptly cuts out.
The filename is 10A - 126 - Download, and there’s no other metadata. My mp3 library is about to turn 25 years old, and with over forty thousand tracks, I have no idea when or how this song entered my life, and artificial intelligence knows nothing about it. So I turn to you in the hope that the Information Superhighway is not yet totally useless: I’m offering five American dollars and a mountain of gratitude to anyone who can identify it for me.
