Night Artery

Artist Information

Biography

"..The dynamics that he showed as a solo artist were of a world class level. He danced around the stage with a passion that left many of the crowd open mouthed and awe struck. " - Richard Jackman from City Showcase Festival Napier New Zealand.
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Formerly a one man band, Night Artery's Ross Arundale enlisted the help of Michael Barker (former drummer of John Butler Trio) and Eddie Rayner (Keyboardist/Producer Crowded House, Paul Mccartney) to record sophomore EP “DeliverDeliver” .

Firing out of the blocks with opener “DeliverDeliver” Night Artery attacks your ears with in your face indie/pop rock, hints of prog, unconventional arrangements and is simply swarming with energetic foot tapping hooks.

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2010 WINNER OF STORYTELLERS SHOWCASE SERIES BY MLG PRESENTS
Won as a solo artist over 50 bands/artists.
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2008 TORONTO EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE AWARDS

Best International Rock EP 2008
Night Artery “Capsize your Surroundings”

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"Moody pieces of textually intense music that sounds unlike anything I've heard before."

"It's freakin intense, rocks and is simply dripping with amazing melodies. There's no way to grasp the heaviness of it with just one listen." - The Ripple Effect

"...Distinctly original... Progressive pop music that doesn't sound at all like a one-man production...Capsize Your Surroundings is a cut above, in all respects. - Progression Magazine

5 out of 5 - Wildy's World...

4 1/2 Stars - OZJAM.COM.AU

"Vivid and compelling and simply smoulders" - Whisperinandhollerin.com

4 STARS - Capsize Your Surroundings is an inimitable success for one man and a recording studio laying the groundwork for a career rife with beautiful experimentation. - Musikreviews.com
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HISTORY BEHIND THE DEBUT EP - CAPSIZE YOUR SURROUNDINGS
Despite what your ears tell you, Night Artery is entirely a solo project. Manning all the instruments, Ross Arundale delivers off-kilter, unconventional arrangements laced with cryptic lyrics and dynamic vocals on his debut release. Live, he's an arresting performer armed with near manic intensity, taking you from soaring aggression to chilling falsetto in the same song.

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17 years in…and it became apparent that no other direction had any sense of resonance. Nothing else registered. But at that age, you have no idea what’s involved, what it takes, in fact you barely know anything. Instead you're wrapped in delusions of grandeur wishing for that instant break.

But it didn't happen in an instant and I’m glad it didn’t… Something that comes into your hands quickly and easily rarely holds a great amount of significance.

The next few years were learning years..
Enter a production line of jobs in search of that necessary albeit elusive ingredient (money to get started).

On the music front, bands didn't work, duo efforts subsided and my first solo efforts recording left me more jaded.....They felt boring and needed to be more..much more. More exciting, more unpredictable....
That's when the real decision was made. The decision that I wanted to do everything myself... That is, every instrument right down to the photography and design. The problem... I only knew guitar and this would require a lot of money.
The conclusion.. In order for this to be realised, drastic measures had to be taken… So for 2 years I travelled working on the Railway...

There were times where the rigours of the job felt nothing short of brutal (swinging a sledge hammer for months on end isn't exactly bliss) but the bigger picture was embedded in me and I stuck with it.
I earned in 2 years what would've taken 10.

I unloaded all of the savings into a mini studio and bought every instrument I needed. New electric and amp, bass, drum kit, keyboard and all the recording gear as well.
The last year was dedicated to learning each instrument as best as I could, enrolling in a short recording course, and ending with the writing and recording process from home..

Fast forward to today and here I am.. Finally the ep is ready.
I never considered a back up plan.

Instrumentation

Dylan Davis - Bass
Karl Ammitzboll - Drums

Discography

Self Titled Sophomore EP available in 3 weeks.
Capsize Your Surroundings EP available now.
CD available at www.nightartery.com
Downloads available at iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody etc

2008 TORONTO EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE AWARDS

Best International Rock EP 2008
Night Artery “Capsize your Surroundings”

Best International Up and Coming Rock Producer
Ross Arundale

- ISC SEMI FINALIST International Songwriting Competition 2008.

- Honourable Mention in the Billboard Music Awards 2008

- Song "Unity" used in Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal to help with fundraising efforts and aired in a pictorial tribute DVD at Sound Relief Concerts to 80,000 people.

* Cinematic Shards..selected for Sonicbids Listen Volume 5 Compilation.

* Cinematic Shards Selected for Radio RNR New Music Compilation.

* "Cinematic Shards.." selected for No Lip. Volume 2 Compilation for Mohawk Bomb Records

* Selected for Songsalive CD Sampler 2009

* Musikreviews.com Feature of the Week.

* Selected for Skopemag.com 'Artists To Watch' Features

* Selected for Jeff Buckley Tribute show at Forum Theatre, Melbourne performing Grace, Eternal Life and Hallelujah.

* 2005 Busker of the year...
At the Sydney Road Street Party as part of the Brunswick Music Festival

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12 Songs Featured on Australian Television Network Channel 10 published through Universal Records and Fremantle Media .
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Current Radio Airplay:

TRIPLE J NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN RADIO
"Cinematic Shards.." Featured on Home and Hosed Program

WFNX Boston Streaming Radio Spotlight..
"Cinematic Shards.."

FM102x Song of the Day
"Cinematic Shards.."

Soundcheck Radio New York

REDDOGRADIO.COM

Pongid Radio
Feature Band of the Month January 2009

WJFN Showcase Internet Radio Show

Outboundmusic.com Texas

IndeZonic Radio Feature

UNheardradio.com Radio Rock Channel

Mvyradio.com MusiCafe
"Cinematic Shards.."

Banana Peel Radio

INDIE104 ~ iRADIO LA iradola.com
"Cinematic Shards.."

UnderWorldMixradio.com Internet Radio
"Cinematic Shards"

BounceRadio.net

Robot40.com

Dr. Lou Radio Show Philadelphia

NAB Radio Charleston, SC,

http://wgad.net. New York

http://www.hotspotradio.com/

"Glass Corners" featured on Suffolk'n'Cool podcast

Pongid Radio "Cinematic Shards"
Feature Band of the Month January 2009

Awesome Radio/IndiShowcase (DJ - Skys)
http://www.awesomeradio.net

Feature Page on ArtistsILove.com

WaccRadio.org -Atlantic Cape Community College
http://www.waccradio.org

REDRock Internet Radio
RupturedEarDrums.Biz

KRIM-FM.com
http://www.krim-fm.com

UR Radio (Underground Revolution: The Movement) California South

Dark Compass UK

ARFM & Emania Soundscapes UK

www.Bsideartist.com

Firestorm Radio.com LLC, Great Lakes

Sound Machine Radio Soundmachinenc.com

RadiomaxMusic Internet Radio

Radio Clandestino

92.5FM KYHY The Why

USMO Radio

WRFW-FM Univ Wisconsin -River Falls

Rae of Sound Internet Radio Texas

Londons Kalling UK Radio

Official Website

http://www.myspace.com/nightartery

Links

• Facebook
• MySpace
• Official Website

Audio

• DeliverDeliver
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• Difference
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• Origin
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• Movement
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• Catalyst
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• Cinematic Shards on the Permanent Way
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• ...
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• An Act Ill-Informed of Returns
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Lyrics

• Difference
• Origin
• Movement
• Catalyst
• Cinematic Shards on the Permanent Way
• An act ill-informed of returns
• Glass Corners
• (Poem) To Act Ill-Informed of Returns

Video

Photo Gallery

Press

• Live Review City Showcase Festival New Zealand [+ Show ]
  

  Ross Arundale took the stage at The Music Machine as part of the City Showcase and proceeded to mes...Ross Arundale took the stage at The Music Machine as part of the City
  Showcase and proceeded to mesmerise and captivate the audience from the
  moment he started his performance.
  
  With cleverly arranged loops and dynamic energetic performance, he danced
  around the stage, playing his Martin guitar with a passion that left many of
  the crowd open mouthed and awe struck.
  
  This performance was a real joy to behold. His songs are well crafted and
  the dynamics that he showed as a solo artist were of a world class level.
  
  Richard Jackman
  Music Machine (Owner)
  
  

• Night Artery - Capsize Your Surroundings CD REVIEW [+ Show ]
  

  I knew I loved this immediately; I just wasn’t sure which words to use to best express my love for i...I knew I loved this immediately; I just wasn’t sure which words to use to best express my love for it. In fact, I’m still not sure I know which words to use . . . so I’ll just dive into this. The music is poppy, but progressive, and the production work is crisp and much more polished than one would expect from a traditional D.I.Y. product. But D.I.Y. it is.
  
  The back story of this release goes something along these lines: Night Artery is a one man project, brought to light by the massively talented Ross Arundale. Our hero wanted, like most kids who knew how to play a few chords on their guitar, to be a rocker, faced much disappointment, realized that he had a burning ambition, worked his ass off to make a few bucks so he could afford to do things his way, purchased all of the gear he could, learned how to use it, then wrote, recorded, and produced this, his first release, Capsize Your Surroundings. Seriously. Not even I could make up something like this.
  
  Capsize Your Surroundings is a progressive pop disc, but categories almost feel like a disservice to music as broad and ambitious as this. Ross’ approach to the song writing is unpredictable and unorthodox, as the music sounds unlike anything I’ve heard before. Sure, I can hear a bit of Beatles influence, but strictly in a sonic approach and experimentation, not in song structure or melody. The songs are moody pieces of texturally intense music. No instrument is spared as the good Mr. Arundale incorporates cellos, violins, and piano to accent the typical rock oriented guitar, bass, and drums, but don’t go thinking that this is some classical piece of music. Yeah, there are some pretty heavy symphonic portions to the music, but nothing you have to wear a tuxedo for. It rocks in a poppy kind of way and is simply dripping with amazing melodies. It’s freaking intense, man. There’s so much going on that there’s no possible way to grasp the heaviness of it with just one listen.
  
  I guess one could compare Night Artery to the contemporary soundings of Coldplay, Spoon, or possibly Radiohead, but that comparison would have to be stylistically speaking only, not in overall sound. Capsize Your Surroundings sounds like a huge production team was involved with it, and for that I can only sit here and shake my head. I’ve heard big budget albums sound worse . . . considerably worse. The musicianship here is masterful. The production value is stronger than the American dollar (what isn't these days?) The performances are passionate. The songwriting is unconventional. And, it’s one man doing it on his own. Sometimes, life just isn’t fair.

• Night Artery // Ross will fool you, too [+ Show ]
  

  Night Artery // Ross will fool you, too By beardedaxe One-man bands are creeping back in...Night Artery // Ross will fool you, too
  By beardedaxe
  
  
  One-man bands are creeping back into the musical world for one obvious reason: technology makes it pretty easy. Of course, if you can’t play drums, bass, guitar and sing then you’re probably not eligible. If you’re the guy from Night Artery, a Mr. Ross Arundale, then you most definitely are in the running. Ross recorded Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Piano, and arranged strings for his first release entitled Capsize Your Surroundings.
  
  
  Ross has put together an exceptional studio album that rock fans will most definitely appreciate. If you look at Night Artery’s album as purely a recorded work, you’ll have trouble finding much wrong. Plenty of professionalism, a strong command of every instrument on the record and excellent production make Capsize Your Surroundings a strong and impressive independent release.
  
  Ross is a Melbourne, Australia native. He only recently purchased the instruments used to make the album, along with recording equipment that he (yup) used to record himself. Instrumentation on the record is certainly above average, but the piano arrangements are a little more advanced and they’re executed really well. Listen to the hidden track that closes the ep to appreciate the breadth of his ability to pick up and wield instruments. Capsize… is, despite originally costing $5, a free release so do yourself and Ross Arundale (whom received honors for “2008 Best International Rock EP”) a favor by downloading his first, very successful EP and keep in touch for what’s next.

• Night Artery - Capsize Your Surroundings CD REVIEW [+ Show ]
  

  If sheer guts and determination were enough to win the day, then it would be hard to resist giving t...If sheer guts and determination were enough to win the day, then it would be hard to resist giving the gold to NIGHT ARTERY main man Ross Arundale. After all, he self-funded, produced and provided the recording space for his debut EP 'Capsize Your Surroundings' on the back of two years back-breaking work wielding a sledgehammer on the Australian railroad. An unforgiving environment, I should imagine, but not enough to deter our hero, who “never considered a back-up plan.” Respect for this alone is surely due, all things considered.
  
  All too often, though, such Herculean effort can fall on stony ground, when a series of reviewers and the public in general then dash such good intentions on the rocks of indifference. And sometimes they'd be right. After all, great art rarely equates with sweat, toil and graft.
  
  Thankfully, however, 'Capsize Your Surroundings' is – creatively at least – not one of those misfires. Arundale himself plays all the instruments. He treats us to four songs and an unlisted piano track at the end which serves as something of a credit-roller. His label's name 'Cinematical' is certainly relevant, for there's certainly an epic, filmic quality keen to burst out of these tracks. In fact, such is the dramatic sweep of Night Artery's music sometimes I wonder if Ross wrote these songs with a short film in mind, even if it's an imaginary one along the lines of Barry Adamson's atmospheric 'Moss Side Story.'
  
  Opener 'An Act Ill-Informed Of Returns' thrusts you headlong into his widescreen pop. As the title suggests, his music is slightly high-brow and quirky, though it's certainly in touch with great pop too. Perhaps inevitably, the countrymen Ross evokes are the likes of Grant McLennan and David McComb, individuals who were rarely found wanting when evocative imagery was concerned. Arundale has a way with an engaging lyric too (sample: “be wary of thieves...they vie to spill your ardor”) and when he allies such observations to these thrilling, string and piano-assisted soundscapes, he's on to something of a winner.
  
  The rest of the EP maintains these exacting standards. Despite a title more akin to a Guided By Voices out-take, 'Cinematical Shards On The Permanent Way' makes an immediate impact. It's nagging, urgent (not a million miles from mid-period Go-Betweens or even The Smiths at a push)and quickly gets under your skin; even leaving a gorgeous, blink-and-you'll-miss-it piano solo in its' wake. 'Nerve Endings', meanwhile, is the slowburning stand-out. Even allowing for a slightly elliptical lyric (“I'll sharpen my absent eye of a rarity placed in front of me”), it's vivid and compelling and simply smoulders.
  
  'Glass Corners' is the last of the four 'proper' tracks and surely the most strident. There's a cocksure urgency to the funkily insistent guitar and Ross absolutely sings his heart out here. Once again, the song's landscape and tempo shifts with heart-stopping intensity and flings your emotions around. Indeed, it's not always easy to get comfortable while you're negotiating the tight bends and chicanes this EP winds around, but the thrill of the chase is everything and repeated circuits allow just enough familiarity for you to enjoy it to the hilt.
  
  Which is probably a good overview where this intelligent and ambitious EP is concerned. Ross Arundale is clearly a man unperturbed by either hard work or the climb required to attain artistic success along the way. 'Capsize Your Surroundings' may have been a hard-won labour of love, but it's a first born to be rightly proud of. Let's hope it's the first of many where this young man's concerned.

• Night Artery - Capsize Your Surroundings CD REVIEW [+ Show ]
  

  Rating: 5 Stars (Out of 5) Melbourne, Australia's Night Artery is a story of personal persevera...
  Rating: 5 Stars (Out of 5)
  
  Melbourne, Australia's Night Artery is a story of personal perseverance: Personal because Night Artery is one man, Ross Arundale; Perseverance because it took Arundale time and lots of sledgehammer swings to find not only his true voice but also the means to get it out there. Spending two years working on the railway might seem like a romantic, adventurous life, but Arundale can tell you how hard the work is. His reward was enough money put away to buy all of the instruments and equipment he needed to build his own studio. Then he just needed a year to learn to play them all. Capsize Your Surroundings is not only the name of Arundale's first E.P. as Night Artery, but it also describes the way he's lived his life until now. If you don't like your circumstances, change them.
  
  Capsize Your Surroundings opens with An Act Ill-Informed Of Returns, which starts with a gorgeous faux-orchestra moving into a mellow verse followed by an almost frenetic chorus. The song takes on a Progressive Rock bent as Arundale turns the song every which way on the way to the next verse. I really enjoyed this tune and can't seem to get it out of my head. Cinematic Shards On The Permanent Way is a jaunty rock song that again has some Prog leanings. The changes in song structure throughout make for highly interesting listening. Nerve Endings is more of a classic rock radio ballad in acoustic setting. It's extremely well written and performed. Glass Corners opens with riffs reminiscent of old Yes songs and turns into an almost U2-like grand ballad that falls into apoplectic Yes chord progressions at the end. Glass Corners is Arundale's most impassioned vocal performance on the album and is my personal favorite. The unlisted bonus track is a pretty two-and-a-half minute piano piece that deserves to be heard.
  
  Night Artery is an unusual project. Ross Arundale is an extremely talented composer and performer. He's obviously very motivated to bring his music to the world, and its hard to see how he will not be a great success. Capsize Your Surroundings is a daring, brash and wonderfully successful debut. The mix of progressive leanings with almost classical compositional style and old-fashioned singer-songwriter balladeering makes for a wonderful combination. The only complaint along the way is the shortness of the album. We here at Wildy's World will be hoping for more from Night Artery soon.
  
  Rating: 5 Stars (Out of 5)
  
  You can learn more about Night Artery at www.myspace.com/nightartery or http://www.nightartery.com/, where you can purchase a copy of the Capsize Your Surroundings EP. Downloads are available through iTunes.

• MusikReviews.com Feature of the Week - Night Artery [+ Show ]
  

  Night Artery - Capsize Your Surroundings EP FOUR STARS Night Artery's baroque-inspired alternati...Night Artery - Capsize Your Surroundings EP
  FOUR STARS
  
  Night Artery's baroque-inspired alternative, what with its dramatic progressive rock arrangements and general mainstream appeal, is all the more impressive when one realizes it is the work of one man: Ross Arundale, who performs all the instruments for the solo project with relative ease. The result is a debut EP, Capsize Your Surroundings, that has all the workings of a band with high chemistry, but no actual band behind the finalized product. Whether that's alarming or awe-inspiring seems less important than the fact that Arundale has produced a solid record of equal parts talented musicianship and shameless ear candy, a rare combination indeed.
  
  Arundale's Night Artery project also has the distinct ability of avoiding genre classification: at times pounding and intricate in ways, Arundale also indulges a softer, '90s art rock side at times. Opening track "An Act Ill-Informed of Returns" employs the Renaissance mindset of the former, with a harpsichord-minded verse and bridge, cinematic percussion bursts, and an orchestral accompaniment that may or may not be totally digital. In either case, Arundale is equipped with the perfect amount of screed and husk on his voice to pull off the quick switches between rage and elation.
  
  This versatility is quickly showcased on follow-up track "Cinematic Shards on the Permanent Way," a breezy piece of adult alternative that finds Arundale strumming his way, Better Than Ezra-like, into a piano-punctured chorus. Almost honky-tonk in a way, the song is a far cry from the dramatics of Capsize's opening, and a promising sign of Arundale's willingness to stretch. The wonderfully desperate "Glass Corners," which practically burns with angst for all of its five-minute running time.
  
  Arundale has established quite a reputation with Night Artery, laying the groundwork for a career rife with beautiful experimentation. There's still a polished, mainstream appeal to Arundale's flexing alterna-rock style, and regardless of its singular vision, Capsize Your Surroundings is an inimitable success for one man and a recording studio.
  
  FOUR STARS
  
  Kevin Liedel, MuzikReviews.com Sr. Staff

• Capsize your Surroundings CD REVIEW [+ Show ]
  

  The rise to stardom took years of learning and sacrifice, with some gut wrenching decisions to be ma...The rise to stardom took years of learning and sacrifice, with some gut wrenching decisions to be made, but the outcome is exciting and unpredictable. The Capsize Your Surroundings EP is, in no simpler terms, a jack of all trades release.
  
  Opting for the unconventional road, Ross is Night Artery and a whole lot more. From the photography, to the design, to the keyboard, to the guitar, to the drum kit, and even to the recording gear, every instrument is manned by Ross which gives Night Artery a band like presence when listened to, and you soon forget it's just one man.
  
  From the hypnotic string arrangements in An Act Ill-Informed of Returns, leading into the hybrid pop/rock single discovered and aired by Triple J, Cinematic Shards on the Permanent Way, it is evident that this EP is just as diverse as the live show.
  
  Two years of swinging the sledge hammer for months on end working on the Railway Line has finally paid off for Ross and Night Artery, the result is an intense independently released EP Capsize Your Surroundings that leaves you hanging for more and will no doubt have you swilling beer at his next live show.

• Capsize Your Surroundings CD Review [+ Show ]
  

  Night Artery “Capsize Your Surroundings” (Cinematical Records 2008) You never know what musical m...Night Artery
  “Capsize Your Surroundings”
  (Cinematical Records 2008)
  You never know what musical move Night Artery is going to bust out next. It might be some moody piano key-twanging, straightforward pop balladeering, angst-filled rock, or even Renaissance Faire-ish guitar plinking. But the eclectic smattering of influences doesn’t detract from the EP’s musical cohesion. Ambitious but unpretentious, grandiose in its vision yet honest in execution, “Capsize Your Surroundings” should appeal to anyone who appreciates unpredictable music with a foundation of genuine emotion.
  
  Sounds Like: Quirky but heartfelt blend of styles
  
  
  

• Night Artery CD Review [+ Show ]
  

  It’s incredible to believe such a vast musical soundcape is the creation of just one person! Lis...It’s incredible to believe such a vast musical soundcape is the
  creation of just one person!
  Listening to Night Artery delivers the same sense of exhilaration as travelling at 100mph in an open
  top car… the rich landscape changing faster than your brain can comprehend.
  You want to absorb every detail, but everything’s moving too fast to register in one take. The only solution is to turn around and fly down the highway again…and again.

• Capsize Your Surroundings CD Review [+ Show ]
  

  Ross Arundale worked hard for a few years, saved his money, then bought some instruments and recordi...Ross Arundale worked hard for a few years, saved his money, then bought some instruments and recording equipment on which he became self taught. The result is Capsize Your Surroudings, an EP that doesn't sound at all like a one-man production.
  All of it is distinctly original with Arundale's deft melody sense always the main focus amidst solid playing. A lot of "basement productions" suffer from one-dimensional sound and poor production.. Capsize Your Surroundings is a cut above, in all respects.
  - Dewey Gurall

• SkopeMag.com Artists to Watch Feature [+ Show ]
  

  That brave soul from Australia I told you about is Ross Arundale who performs under the name Night A...That brave soul from Australia I told you about is Ross Arundale who performs under the name Night Artery. Having done the band thing, Arundale became a one-man studio. He sings (even his own background vocals) and plays guitar, bass, piano, and drums. And, he did all of his own recording, photography, and design work for the EP and album he released. His musical efforts are a mix of genres, combining pop with alt rock, with intricate guitar noodling, melodic piano, and vocals that range from lyrical to bordering on hardcore. All of it is very well done (instrumentation, vocals, recording quality, and lyrics). I’ve heard a quite a few self-recorded artists, and, believe me, Night Artery is slickly professional!

Setlist

Most recent setlist..
Intro
Difference (original)
Origin (original)
Hey ya (outkast cover)
Oblivion (original)
Deliverdeliver (original)
Movement (original)
Catalyst (Original)
The departure (original)

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