Z walks out of a desert test-site, teetering on the edge of oblivion, naked, eyeless, without memory, hair, teeth and fingertips. There is a scar, however, low on his torso in the form of a misshapen letter 'z'. Who is he? Meanwhile, unborn mutation, nada, dreams in her ‘crawlspace of the gods’ (“where is mom in all all of this?”), spinning her own mythos , creating false pasts, present, futures near and far…

 

Nada dreams of multiple lives: nuclear dreams of girlhood in Nagashima, days in Danzig nurtured by her defecting rocket scientist father, and those days on the run, holed out in a pink bordello in Mexico, burning barns and bigger things because fire was part of her, her genes, her make-up.

If pushed, we should reveal that Z is her true father, irradiated from nuclear tests in Albuquerque, his poison sperm made of her what she is. Part fiction, part past. But always unborn, adrift in limbo, genetically mutated to dream such potential futures. Z, after all, is merely an N on its side.

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The 'Z'/Nada cycle of songs explores this narrative. The songs include (but are not limited to), in typical fractured chronology :

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z' {Crawlspace of the Gods}

'z' {Whale in the Belly}

'z' {The Nada Song}

'z' {Salamander in a Burning Room}

'z' {Albuquerque}

'z' {Nada in the Pink House}

'z' {Hibakusha}

'z' {Kimono Skin}

'z' {Queer Moon}

'z' {Drumless in Danzig}

'z' {Sister Pariah}

'z' {Ummm}

'z' {The Last Ghost Story}

'z' {Tallest Man on the Planet}

'z' {Beard of Bees}

'z' {Tactile}

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