Free Lunch, Vol. 1: Fish

by Free Tillman

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Adjusting Each Others Crowns, Undiscovered Colors, The Ground Moved When They Jumped, Free Lunch, Vol. 3: Rap Ballads, Free Lunch, Vol. 2: Salad, Free Lunch, Vol. 1: Fish, BLACK, Sweet Dreams, and 7 more. , and , .

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1.	The Last Time It Rained for 1,000,000 Years 04:00	buy track
2.	Tourist of a New Reality 04:32	buy track
3.	Hard to Be a God When You Don’t Believe in Yourself 03:49	buy track
4.	In Negative, Shadows Become Light 05:42	buy track
5.	The Evolution of the Heart (a Love Story) 05:09	buy track
6.	If You Can Start It, It’s Yours 04:56	buy track
7.	Life is Unfair but Sometimes It Isn’t 02:40	buy track
8.	AbEx 05:01

about

This is me being unbothered with catchy hooks or melodies. This is me swimming in different sounds and letting the current take me where it wanted to go.

This album was inspired by artist like Pharaoh Sanders, Vladislav Delay, Ambrose Akinmusire, and (the ambient god) Brian Eno.

THIS VERSION OF THE ALBUM INCLUDES A BONUS TRACK THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE ON STREAMING SERVICES.

About the title.
Believe it or not the title of this project is not a play on the name Free Tillman. My favorite opening line of a song is “We eat fish, toss salads, and make rap ballads” from “Fish” by Ghostface Killah. Is it a jail reference, drug slang or is it meant to be taken literary? I’ve always taken it literally but honestly I never want to know the answer.

Before I started making any music I got it into my head that I wanted to make an album called Fish, Toss Salads & Rap Ballads. Once I started working I realized I was making songs that wouldn’t sound right on an album together so I decided to make 3. I also decided to leave out the word “toss” because Chris Rock kind of ruined the phrase “tossed salad”.

So now I needed something that would tie everything together. I went back to Ironman and I landed on the song “All That I Got is You”. Specifically the phrase "In the summer, free lunch held us down like steel”. This phase has always stuck out to me for 2 reasons:

1. I too was on the Summer Food Service Program as a kid and I never really appreciated it until I heard this song.

2. I didn’t realize there were other people that had the same experience as I did and it instilled in me the importance of sharing your experiences and the importance of art in general.

So, that’s why the album is called Free Lunch: Fish, Salad & Rap Ballads.