A glimpse into recording drums with Keith.
aka ‘a lot of fucking around’
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degrading into a party, and nothing respectable
This is the face of Lee, aka Citizen Tank, aka noise-maker in Everyone an Army. Not only is he a fine musician, but he also let me (along with a pile of others) crash on his couch whilst on tour. Not just that, he even cooked breakfast in the morning.
What a guy.
It is him that came up with the beautiful piano playing on the most recent track to be finished from the whole collaborative ditty. You can listen below.
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I’ve been off gallivanting for the past wee while.
You need to soak up what’s going on around you before you step back and write about it.
video for ‘pre-medication’
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this is all we’re offering
Pulco’s back for the newest collaborative track with his barrage of sketchbook samples… with a much softer feel to the last. Lee from Everyone an Army also played some of the guitar swooshes featured, but there’s more to come from him, so we’ll hold off introductions for now…
unexpected bowtie has been quieter than usual as of late. Recording for Polis is still happening, but last week we took a break out to record for Closet Organ. Proof below:
You wouldn’t get a face of pure metal like that from unexpected bowtie material.
So many wires.
I need to get a bigger room.
the economic benefits of individual contraction
So far there haven’t been too many elongated track titles on this collaborative jaunt, so the time is right; the time is now.
Delay Trees are a ‘dream-pop’ foursome from Helsinki, Finland. They have all the delicate nature and sing-songy delight of the rather good Iain Archer, and they provide the ambient background to the latest track. There’s an interesting mix of Gameboys, mandolin and other effects to be found. Drums come courtesy of Keith Grantham, who’s already been introduced.
You can find more of Delay Trees at their Soundcloud.
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It’s transpired that I may be coming up with some music for the short-film style series Polis in the near future.
Take a look at the video for a preview. More info will come along as it appears.
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Collaboration Preview – Track 3 – ‘marks for effort’
with Burning Buildings
This track is a much softer, less grizzly track than the last one that involved Pulco. It comes with a piano melody courtesy of Manchester’s Burning Buildings. They’re awfully nice chaps, and probably slightly unhinged… but the end product is one that I’m really personally pleased with. Sometimes there are melodies that just fit your vocal-style to a tee, and for me this is one of them. Hopefully you might like it too.
You can find some of their tracks for free over at Bandcamp, tweets on Twitter, and a review over at Artrocker.
It was only a week or two ago that we posted introducing Ash Cooke aka Pulco, with the news that he’d be contributing some specially recorded samples to be mashed up (i.e. destroyed) in the name of art… and contribute he did, with a whole stash of bizarre loops and rumblings. In true Pulco style, the ‘misery poet’ utilised everyday objects like a wheelbarrow, and chucked rocks at it till it became aurally pleasing.
You can preview the product below; it’s a dark, grungey affair.
For more info on Pulco, check out the interview from Artrocker that went online today.
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