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Oh yes, a video
For the visually inclined, here’s a film clip I made for one of the tracks on Air from here, a cassette and digital release on artisan American label Æescape Sounds.
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That Well Over Five Years feeling
The last time I posted here about making music was around six years ago, with some of my first forays into solo soundmaking. Since then there has been just one digital EP release but a lot of furious paddling below …
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Beer clowns
SORRY IF IT WAS BEER that brought you here. This is the second post I’ve done that collides with the world of alcohol, but its influence is indirect. Or is that derelict?
Take one beer mat, also known as a …
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Raspberry & Rocket
TEN STICKY TEXTURES TO PLAY WITH. Lovely new neighbours gave us home grown raspberries. Aside from the fact that they’d make opulent bangles for stylish fairies, they leave very attractive stains (this is raspberries, not the neighbours). So does rocket, …
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For seventy 3
CATS WRITE MUSIC. It’s one of their less well known attributes. When a black cat walks across your laptop, the results can be disastrous or useful. That’s the genesis of this track.
Making a languorous and quite oblivious passage across …
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Green Grotto, Blue Grotto
I’VE READ THAT KIDS IN THE EAST END of London made grottos. It required a vaguely curatorial eye for whatever pretties or curiosities could be scrounged up and displayed on the doorstep. People payed to look. I like this …
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Temperance texture sampler
FREE TEXTURES FOR DEAR READERS. If you ‘suffer’ from the same tendency as me, you might like this. I’ve always got at least one eye on a scouting mission for new textures, surfaces with pattern or patina, grain or grime. …
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Road patch
Eccentric machines are roaming our street. While the daffodils make up a benign and nodding army just below, something the council sent us is making hell’s racket. Part needy, huge-baby bird, part sadly lowing calf, it has two day-glo jacketed …
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Lost folksong
A poem made from spam
somerset tull
Of dellslow the fernwood
And beeville on glenwild
Soft Eden for You!I an twig
on the brierfield
furor foxhole
of wherewith by wherewithal
bambi embanksIn manure be cabal
Or bumble …
