Lockdown was a period of constant music-making. I asked a farmer friend to send his crops, from which I hoped to backflip into some new song-structures. I partook of the crop, the songs began. I called the endeavor High and High and Mighty (abbreviated as HAHAM) and invited a brilliant pedal steel player to collaborate. It took us months of back-and-forthing, during which time my friend and colleague Emmett Kelly told me about his new Ha Ha Institute cassette label. It felt like absolutely the right place for HAHAM to begin its public existence. We tried to master it, working with the demigod Helge Sten, but the pieces resisted such further person-handling; Emmett expressed a perverse fondness for unmastered recordings and in this case I had to agree that it can sometimes work out. Look for the Broadway live enactment of High and High and Mighty in your dreams and mine.