Name: Lost In The Desert by John Aziz & The Spiral in Cloud Occlusion-12
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: This is what I do when I'm not making space rock, I guess.

wooo amazing fusion. great groove. incredible feeling of being tripping hard in the desert!

Cloud Occlusion-12

The Percolator by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by D. Danielli/G. Davies.    

Performers:
George: guitars
Dave: bass, percussion
Emma: flute

Project directed by George Davies.

Recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* The Percolator was initally composed by Dave and modified into a Flicker tune by George.
* Dave took George’s Stratocaster home to give it some TLC, and when he brought it back, this crazy tune had sprung forth from it into his hands.
* It seems to be about the vague imaginings one might have that manifest into more coherent thought after musing has occured.
* This may be nonsense though – Dave composed it initially and maybe it was just some tune.
* The time signature is very variable, so Flicker set the metronome to record in 1/8 at 150 BPM.
* This meant it had an insane amount of bars on the sequencer.
* This resulted in comments like “Let’s go back to bar 2340 and try from there” – quite impressive for the shortest piece on the album!
* It can be thought of as being largely in a slow eleven time, with the odd bar of six after the Em9.
* It’s easiest to count ||: 1-2-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3- :||
* Emma’s flute towards the end represents the steam when boiling takes place.
* The brutality of the djembe doing the bass drum is important.
* George said that the melody seemed quite obvious once he’d understood the chords properly.
* George composed and scored the flute part for Emma after his guitar melody materialised.
* Scoring the part for Emma using pencil and paper was the first time George had had to use music score in a real-life situation for years.
* This piece is in D minor, although the C minor adds a cunning twist.
* One of the keys to unlocking the rhythm of the piece is to follow the cowbell.
* It plays on every other beat, so sometimes it is on the beat and sometimes off.
* More cowbell!
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/the-percolator

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-percolator
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Video of George playing the acoustic guitar part, with out-takes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EzCjSTSyG8
"And now...!"

At Least 1000 Words

The Percolator

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Flicker: The Percolator

This is what I do when I'm not making space rock, I guess.

Lost In The Desert

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Imperfeições

Visões de um outro tempo

Caminhando por uma linha ténue

2017-04-15

colors of the rainbow

Tree by RosesAreBlue. All right reserved. Copyright 2020

If you happened to miss my mini home concert on youtube here's the link x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7T1lg2ikc

Tree | RosesAreBlue

I have $501,000,000

Peel your eyes off the pavement cause the sky's a humane zoo
Look, there's a fox to me; is it a fox to you?
I know you see that rabbit or the cabin by the river
There's not too flexible a stretch imagination can't deliver
So tell me...

What do you see in the clouds?
You'll only see my finger if I try to point it out
What do you see in the clouds?

Now rabbit's fixing dinner for his foxy friend
Before the picture fades I'm imagining the end
Though the clouds crowd their enclosure, I wish the future were so clear
If you hate outdoor exposure, then what are we doing here?
So tell me...

What do you see in the clouds?
I'll need to read your mind if I don't want to live in doubt
What do you see in the clouds?

Is it me? Is it you and me?

You insist that you see nothin, and you think it's gonna rain
And we stare at each other like the other's gone insane
Maybe it's contagious cause the scene changed on a dime
Just lonely clouds forever, that will be the last time
I ask you...

What do you see in the clouds?
Do we see the same sky? Did a black hole sun come out?
Told me what you perceive, but it leaves me wondering how
What do you see in the clouds?

In the Clouds

These guys reminded me of TOOL but more indie/post, so I asked if I could sing over a song. I hope it inspires more collabs!

What a fun experience it was to collaborate with these guys, and they didn't even need to do anything extra! They already released an album full of awesome instrumental indie / post rock material. I heard it and wondered what it would sound like with a vocalist, and now we have our answer, lol.

Quarantine sure has done a real number on live rock music, but on the other hand we have a lot more online stuff going on. It's a wonderful opportunity for us dusty old rockers to update our firmware and get a taste of how things have changed. Being able to do this kind of thing gives me hope that although it may not ever be the same, it will still live on.

Thanks to It Was Us for being so awesome. I just straight up came at them with my idea and they were basically like "last time the vocalist idea didn't work out, but sure, send it over". A week went by and I finally sent them a rough version. I was nervous but they liked it, and they allowed me to set the lyrical concept of the song and everything, so many thanks to a great band.

If you're a rock musician, or even if you aren't, come check out reddit.com/r/WeWillRockYou, reddit's very own incubator of new rock music. We're doing collabs of all kind and showing off our work. Artists, performers, professionals and fans alike are all welcome. See you there!

It Was Us - Tales of Confused but Still Bright - their full-length post rock instrumental album on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4puwNbOV8FFtEjeOvWUfet?si=05gnnGknRUqXLLbJZuLWwA 

Adrian Van Meter - Disassembly - my own full-length hard rock album on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/adrianvanmeter/sets/disassembly-album

Thanks for listening!

It Was Us - Platform no. 8 (ft. Adrian Van Meter)

Burning Thru The Night

This one is about a car chase. I was watching a late movie, one of the  Fast And Furious movies…..I know what you’re gonna say, that I watch too much TV. The thing is I’m an insomniac so when I get frustrated and after counting about a thousand sheep and I still can’t find a restful sleep I then turn to TV. Anyway, this time I came across one of the Fast and Furious movies. All the action and speed inspired me to produce this track. Enjoy the energy. Love to all. Copyright protected ©

The Drive ©

A full time, freelance children's book illustrator, introduced to Magix music making software in January 2014.  Haven't been near music production since school about a hundred years ago.  Can't play a note, and sing like a drain unblocking - Hence any music I may eventually have the nerve to upload is all created using midi/vst instruments playing compositions created in the piano roll editor.   The Magix forum dedicated to music production is the only place to suffer my creations so far.  Didn't realise it could be so much fun though.  Woohoo.

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