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Multitrack/Acoustic





Multitrack acoustic guitar recordings, sporting the odd drum or vocal track. As opposed to 'multitrack recordings with keyboard, electric guitar and what have you.'







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LILIUM


TRACKS: 1

RUNTIME: 7'13"

RECORDING DATE: October 2013


DEVICE: 8-track

SOUND: Okay

TYPE: Soft, stumbling and woandering

LYRICS: No




MOTH (EASY TO DANCE)


TRACKS: 1

RUNTIME: 3'32"

RECORDING DATE: July 2013


DEVICE: 8-track

SOUND: Heard better, but still okay

TYPE: Dancy and in a singing mood

LYRICS: "The _ that can be spoken is not the eternal _"




OPEN THE CURTAINS


TRACKS: 2

RUNTIME: 13'11"

RECORDING DATE: June 2013


DEVICE: 8-track

SOUND: Good

TYPE: A meeting of several coincidences

LYRICS: From the play '4:48 Psychosis' (Sarah Kane)





[06:37] 1. Open the curtains

[06:34] 2. Four Forty-Eight



TEXT: From the play 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane


LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET (CLASH COVER)


TRACKS: 1

RUNTIME: 5'29"

RECORDING DATE: June 2013


DEVICE: 8-track

SOUND: Good but had to edit out plosive sounds

TYPE: Spontaneous cover

LYRICS: By Joe Strummer




SONNTAG ZUR MITTE


TRACKS: 1

RUNTIME: 8'17"

RECORDING DATE: February 2013


DEVICE: 8-track

SOUND: Good

TYPE: Viny Reilly is my friend :)

LYRICS: Instrumental




DECAY


TRACKS: 2

RUNTIME: 8'55"

RECORDING DATE: 2005


DEVICE: 4-track tape

SOUND: Good

TYPE: Half-improvised song sketches

LYRICS: Off the cough





[03:50] 1. 18 March 1921

[05:05] 2. Katyń



Two recordings with improvised lyrics.


I remember watching Instrument (by Jem Cohen and Fugazi) again at the time. I must have seen it at least ten times, on my own and with friends. It's one of my favourite films.


"On March 18 the Bolshevik Government and the Communist Party of Russia publicly commemorated the Paris Commune of 1871, drowned in the blood of the French workers by Gallifet and Thiers. At the same time they celebrated the 'victory' over Kronstadt."

(Alexander Berkman, The Kronstadt Rebellion)


"The greatest counter-revolutionary factor in the revolution was not Denikin, Koltschak, etc., but the Communist state itself."

(Alexander Berkman, Diary #4, IISG-AB-3)


I had a cold when I recorded 'Katyń'. At the time, its working title was 'Buried in fields and courtyards'. I had been reading on the Spanish Revolution and the horror of civil war (in more general terms) was still fresh on my mind. I don't know why I sang 'soldiers'.


Three years later, I saw Andrej Wajda's film about the Katyń massacre. It moved me so much that I felt physically sick by the end of it. Even so, I would highly recommend it. Hence, this song is since dedicated to the 20,000+ souls that were killed there, and to their families.


The cover photo was taken at my grandmother's house. Much like music and revolution, it has since been sold and dismantled.