Archive - June, 2009

The Diving Bell / The Deeps included on Droning Earth compilation

29 June 2009 by , No Comments
Cover art for Droning Earth
Vol 26.

The Droning Earth guys have kindly included our track The Diving Bell / The Deeps on volume 26 of their free online drone/experimental album compilation series. Check it out here.

Problems with this new fangled electric internet thingy

29 June 2009 by , No Comments

Updating the blog is all very well but I realize that actually uploading the pages is the largely vital part of the process that I’ve been very slack about.

Hence the swag of new posts going back a ways. Will try to keep things more up to date…

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The difficult second album

7 June 2009 by , No Comments

I don’t think the problems we are having finalizing ours are what most people mean when they talk about the difficult second album. Playing completely free and being open to whatever develops musically, we are not really trying to outdo what we achieved in our first one, or concerned about it being the same but different. For us it’s a different day with a different drummer so there’s a different outcome. So far so good!

The main problem we do have is trying to make sense of the huge 3.5 hours of music we recorded with Evan back in January. It doesn’t sound like that much but believe me it is…. Want to listen through the whole session twice? That’s the best part of a working day right there! As you can imagine it’s really hard to stay objective and even remember the stuff you liked over that time period . Because of all this we weren’t really getting anywhere individually so we spent a big chunk of today going over it together. We’ve now got some clarity about what to include – or at least what not to include.

The second problem is that we recorded a really diverse range of stuff that day; from very minimal almost electronic and static sounding textures, to quite massive sounding weird art rock, plus much that lies between the two. Bringing all this together in one album, plus combining 5 minute pop songs (not literally, you’ll not be hearing us on 2day fm anytime soon…) with 20 minute soundscapes is proving much harder that we thought. And we haven’t even started to mix it yet…

We’ll keep you posted.