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Salt and water are our two most basic and fulfilling ingredients. In its own right, salt has properties that release food molecules into the air, which gives food its aroma and enhances its taste. Roughly 70 percent of an adult's body is made up of water. When water combines with salt to make salt water, the two can clease the body, conduct electricity, and serve as the perfect boiling water for fresh pasta. To reimagine and recreate the spiritual, remedial, and naturally enhancing properties of salt water, this week features Sunwatchers' "Flowers of the Water", Loke Rahbeck & Frederick Valentin's album "Buy Coral Online", and Ned Mulligan's "Sternal Sky", as well as various dialogues from Henry Andersen, Delia Derbyshire, and Susan Sontag. In a stew of intimate electronics, bad poetry, and tender murk, we swap tongues and reach for more.