in january 2011 tankian released a music video for his song "reconstructive demonstrations" from his album "imperfect harmonies". tankian also announced on his facebook page, during the video's release, that a new ep entitled "imperfect remixes" would be released sometime within 2011. on february 3, tankian uploaded a photo of him singing into a microphone onto his facebook fan page, accompanied with the description "new music video coming soon..." on march 1, tankian released "imperfect remixes" and the music video for "goodbye", a remix of "gate 21" from "imperfect harmonies".