Background

Foxx attended a birthday celebration screening of a friend’s private film collection in Baltimore

Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...

. The films in the collection were all short pieces collected from various sources, including surveillance agencies and Hollywood cutting room floors. Foxx was transfixed by the strangeness and beauty of the clips.
A few weeks later Foxx was working on some new pieces of music when he realized he was writing in the aftermath of the film screening. He gave in to the memories and wrote a small collection of musical pieces relating to his memory of the film clips he had seen.

Track listing

1. Stray Sinatra Neurone
2. Lost New York
   New York
   New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
   
   
3. Kurfürstendamm
   Kurfürstendamm
   The Kurfürstendamm, known locally as the Ku'damm, is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former Kurfürsten of Brandenburg. This very broad, long boulevard can be considered the Champs-Élysées of Berlin — full of shops, houses, hotels and restaurants...
   
   
4. Skyscraper
5. The Projectionist
6. Looped Los Angeles
   Los Ángeles
   Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
   
   
7. Points of Departure
8. X-Ray Vision
9. Smokescreen
10. Underwater Automobiles
11. A Peripheral Character
12. Shadow City
13. Interlude
14. Thought Experiment
15. Hand-Held Skies