Thursday 5 May 2016

Sonic Weekend

Yay, survived another. For me the best yet. Hadn't been looking forward to it - long drive, time away, work to do etc. etc. but in the end the atmosphere was brilliant, the place spacious and the music really turned me on this time. We were lucky in being able to set up a Dronespace which was presided over by the genial recording maester Scott. Basically we hardly left. Whatsmore, the drones we did were good - real good. I've droned by myself of course but this was different, better, much better. We all added our bits and the thing moved, evolved and just filled the time without any sense of urgency. Even a very stoned and shroomy string interlude from yours truly kinda worked, although the random chords slightly after showed just how far gone into Shroomland I was.
Great seeing everyone again, the main recordings were fab (I think I was on one) and actually more in focus than ever before. Lots of love to Marc and Ann for their awesomeness.

I could go on, but this ain't really a diary and there's not too much value in recording the weirdies of satnav driving in Wales, the case of the broken lamp, the reality shifts, the early Toyah, the halving of Darth Vader and the reed crosses. It wouldn't make sense to even try.

I agreed to do a gig this month. I bought a new module and spotted another I want.
Today I contacted lots of modular people, sampled some 70s porn on an 8-bit sampler, threw grapes at magpies. Then I hung some CDs on the line as that's meant to intimidate them. I'm told mothballs are good too as it a high-powered water pistol. So that's my life!

Oh and boys and girls, if you're reading this and prize your teeth, get an electric toothbrush.






And afterwards
https://paulnagle.bandcamp.com/track/ode-to-granny-o

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