Spring · Apr 24, 10:45 PM
into allergy season again, which makes the voice do different things… and there was this song see, leftover from the Anima 91 sessions, and it needed a vocal, so I done it innit.
Butch Jones always used to say,
never mix on the day you track anything, because you’ll get the levels wrong, either too hot or too soft as you’ll be over conscious
but these days track/mix/upload… boast… look chagrined… take down… yeah, I’ll go back and finish the edits later.. for now see/hear Some Good Sounds in the last section:
Works In Progress
a song called
Breakaway
A song all about Rosendale Road past Thurlow Park before Park Hall, and the silence that seemed to descend on a summer weeknight as the residents all lounged indoors in front of their lambent televisions. Me, walking to some destination somewhere, left into the estate perhaps, or straight ahead, to visit the American girls who lived above the Gypsies Youth Club. In front, high on Crystal Palace Hill, the television broadcast tower, flashing, irradiating the whole of South London with its soporific scent; I was the last boy walking his own path.
Or all about a bike race, escape the bunch at the next climb, because if you can get a little acceleration there before you hit the lanes you know you can stay away…
Mesmerised the silent houses
primp the streets
seven to eleven every working night
a hidden crisis
I pay the prices
I want to make a breakaway
have to make a breakaway
I spent my childhood on the sneaky streets of an empire
bedraggled gardens and lengthy shadows on the fences
I have to make a breakaway
There’s this television tower that transfixes the streets
with the thuggery of power
or talk about the aggro
before the next football game
fuck that
I have to make a breakaway
got to make a breakaway
Written NYC 1984
This is the first recording made with the new bass rig: Fender Fretless -> Phil Jones Briefcase -> Art TP11 -> Tascam 2488
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