Radioactive Tinglings/Jabberwocky - qinqin, wah qinqin, guitar, disortion, christopher lee
Improvised recording about radioactive tinglings, whatever they might be. Over the top of it Christopher Lee reads 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll. I sped up his voice by 20% to fit the music and its pitch now sounds normal, so I guess that his voice must be approximately 20% deeper than the voices of most people.


Jabberwocky

Turtles - guitar, voice
A song about the perils and joys of being a turtle. At 3:36 I recorded a really rubbish guitar solo and reversed it out of laziness. Rather than sounding inconsistently sloppy it now sounds consistently strange.

Turtles

Anxiety Test - bongo loop, harmonica loop, tape noise
Collage of loops and altered tape noise.

Anxiety Test

Ballad of a Pineapple Man - qinqin, voice, feedback loop
This sounds pretty mental to me. It originally began as an experiment with a laptop-dictophone feedback loop. It was improvised in one take no real thought went into it and I think that it does show. I only thought to start making up words about four minutes in. Before that it's all banjo and stupid voice noises. It's ten minutes long so skip it if you get bored.

Ballad of a Pineapple Man

Basilisk - guitar, voice
A song about the basilisk, a mythical snake beast.

Basilisk Song

Pablo the Spiral Worm - guitar, reversed guitar
Improvisation about an oil pastel drawing of a worm with a spirally body, who i've called Pablo.


Pablo the Spiral Worm

A piece of music with no plot, compiled from odds and ends. As Blaise Pascal died long before the invention of the tape recorder and didn't live long enough to invent it himself, his bit is taken from the 1984 BBC documentary 'Sea of Faith'. Groucho's bit is from Animal Crackers. The sound at the end is my roof during heavy rain, leaking onto an upturned metal tin with a microphone inside it.

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