A STONES THROW AWAY
When lost in array in the name you find it
there's many a star that's never out in the night or the day
I just wanna stay in keeping with the truth 
and come back time and time to where it must be right and in place
just a stones throw away I need to help you understand
it's long before it takes effect it seems to be right where I planned
I keep looking around so many ways to get there
and it's something like why they call good times in the day
you don't have to say you feel the way I do
everythings fine hear the resound when it's right
I need to have you in my plans
it's just a stones throw away I need to help you understand
it's long and slow to take effect
it seems to be right where we planned
and nothing feels as fine as focusing eyes on the sand
I feel I left behind something of the other land
she features in my plans
now she features in my plans
I need to have you in my plans
just a stones throw away and she's well aware of that
it's long before it takes effect it seems to be right where we planned
could we be just right where we land.

Written, performed and produced by JIm Palmer (backing vocals by Jim & Ewa Palmer.) Mixed by Paul Groucho Smykle.

A Stones Throw Away

"During a visit to Brighton in 1999 I stumbled upon a percussion shop just down the hill from the station, I forget the name of it. They had this really cool Udu drum and Tabla. This is the first recording I made using them. I started out by playing a bunch of patterns with the Udu and Tabla and built it up from there." Jim.    

Written, performed, produced and mixed by Jim Palmer.

Bongo Cuts (instrumental)

"The goal of any artist is to be original, to have a recognisable style and although this is an original song in that I seriously doubt anyone else in the world has come up with the same odd time verse riff and drum pattern for example, still the influences of bands like Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam etc... are obvious to me. But I think it's a necessary stage, you learn and gain a lot from the inspiration you get from music you admire." Jim.

Written, performed & produced by Jim Palmer. 
Recorded on an 8 track hard disk recorder in 2004.     

Dreams We Buy Back

"This is a rock song from 2004 using electronic drums and hand claps. This is another song heavily infuenced style wise... for instance the verses. I was definately on a bit of a qotsa trip which makes me cringe a bit now but again it's a great way to learn using influences from artists you admire and I think a necessary stage in development. But I still get a kick out of the bridge." Jim. 

Written, performed, produced & mixed by Jim Palmer.



Mantaray

"This song started at my Dad's studio in Switzerland in 1998 or 99. I brought with me an Udu drum and Tabla and used the djembes, gueiro, and other percussion instruments he had at his studio all recorded on to an A-Dat. It started off as a percussion instrumental. From the start there where no preconceived ideas. I just wanted to do something with loads of percussion. I came up with some guitar parts and my Dad said, "Yeah". Which was all the encouragement I needed. He showed me what all the buttons did on the Mackie desk. Like what a Q does on an EQ knob. We would record a mix of the song and take it upstairs to another room to listen to it and decide what needed adjusting and then fix it back in the studio. I sang the nah nah vocal part through the Udu, but it was too mushy sounding. Luckily we'd recorded a version without vocals to Dat so I re did the vocals at my studio years later. Paul "Groucho" Smykle mixed the track and vocals together. This song is part of my 2011 EP Remember Makes You." Jim.

 

Nah Nah

"Writing the lyrics for this one was loosely based on two things. The first is a vignette of the scene from Jaws where there was an overhead shot of Richard Dreyfuss and the Sheriff on a boat looking for Ben Gardner at night and the water lit up from the flood light under the boat. The second was a time when I went scuba diving at night. It's totally pitch black, nothing but a Jedi sabre beam of light from our torches that caught the millions of little particles floating around, makes it look like stars in outerspace. Every now and again the torch reveals a set of eyes from a grouper or whatever comes over to check out all the lights. Quiet but loud at the same time with the sound of rice crispies from all the sea insects. Mandibles munching away on bits of coral. 
The drum track is made up of two takes. I was recording myself on a hard disk recorder which was placed on the floor next to the hi hat pedal. I'd play along and clip it into record with my heal. Took a few goes but got it eventually." Jim.

Black Frontier

 Written, performed, produced & mixed by Jim Palmer 2012.

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