This is a sample of an album I had started in 1999, hot on the heels of my album "The Long Term". I worked on it in dribs and drabs until 2004 and left it in an unfinished state, though I played many of the songs from the project live for 10 years. As I have been in need of a mental creative cleansing, I felt the need to finish this wreck of an album before moving forward. Not sure exactly the final form nor the final destination, but this is a test of the newly transferred tracks from the original analog 8 track reels rendered via Sonicraft A2DX Lab out of New Jersey. The colors that were on the tape are even brighter now thanks to Steve and Kevin at the lab! The recordings were originally meant as demos, but I did not have the heart to try to re record the songs and lose the emotion I captured in the demo stage, thus much of this will be a bit warts and all, with a shine on it. This particular song is certainly reminiscent of a late Nesmith style country rock ballad...not by accident really as the only county music I really liked was his and the sound of it is ingrained in my head...in a good way? That remains to be seen. Watch this space for more doodles and mixes to keep track of the progress on this project!

Next Door Mix 1 Master

Another sample of the album in progress. More testing of the newly digitally transferred analog tracks. I don't ant to give away too much about this song at the moment. Suffice to say it is a wolf in Pop sheeps clothing. In my opinion anyway.

Woman You Want Mix 1 Master

My idea of an electrfried New Orleans funeral dirge mixed in with a bit of James Brown and The Beatles...ish...messy as hell... Gotta figure out how to fix this without messing with the feel. You know when you pine for someone and you see that person everywhere? Yeh that.

Every Sweet Day (Logic test 1)

Maybe the most Proggy track I've ever done...I want to do more like this. A song about broken promises, irony, oversensitivity, probably more stuff as well. This is the oldest track I have ever left unfinished or released as I started writing this in 1986, finished the song in in early 199something or other and started recording it finally in 1996. For awhile this track was going to be on the "Taken (Mon)Aurally" album but it seemed out of place somehow. This was recorded during the same session as "The Long Term" album and finished in 1997, only to languish for another 18 years. Maybe the most finished of these new old tracks...maybe not...the only track recorded as an actual master and not a demo.

Pea And A Promise Mix 1 Master

So..this is another country Nesmithesque ish type of thing that was commissioned by someone I was stupid for at the time and in an effort to impress, wrote it over night for her birthday. It came out better than it had any right to be so...whatever! As I wrote and recorded this in 1999 and that Mike Nesmith himself wrote and released a song called "Around The Sun" in 2009 means I tuned into the Nesmith zeitgeist so acutely as to predict what he would gravitate to...or he has been stalking me all this time!

27 Spins Mix 1

Hide has a duple meaning here which is evident in the music. This may the perfect encapsulation of my dueling natures and indeed, the sickness I was willingly mirroring and nurturing. Not a part of the current running order of the planned album but an extra track for sure... but things can change...just like that...

Hide Mix 1 Aiff Master

The sound of popping hearts...the sound of a panic attack

See Her Smile Aiff Remix 1master

Hearing this again and it is a cry in the dark. I wrote it in the throws of another unrequited love affair, (of which I am an expert), after encountering a beggar on the street that reduced me to tears as it was me I was meeting in the wet and cold. I could do nothing for myself except delay the inevitable for both he and I.  Sprinkled with a dash Prince and so what?

Beggars Edit Mix Aiff Master 1

Where have we been before now? Running after someone through the fabric of time and always missing them. Over and Over again. Rough mix and a few bum notes to fix for sure. Might add some other stuff too! Dunno! Think Nusrat Fetah Ali Khan on guest vocal here to personify the idea of re-incarnation as eternal and exquisite torment.

Oh No Hello Mix 1 Master Aiff

A long time ago written to who I thought was another person. 20 years later I realized I was writing to me.

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