Oliver Benjamin Thayer was born in Oklahoma and whisked away by a dust storm. His family traveled the globe and collected odd jobs, records and volumes of verse. They bounced from Turkey to Italy to Israel as if time and space were a superstition. Oliver began writing songs in earnest out of frustration with his inability to fix corroborators and pay bills simultaneously. From hip-hop, funk and the strange, mercurial collections of Harry Smith, Oliver set out on his musical odyssey. He again...