Arranged as a rock trio song featuring Dave Sturt of Gong and Aaron Comess of The Spin Doctors, Number Crunching is a sort of sister song to Grey Unpleasant Wasteland. With the reification of statistics, bureaucracy and the obfuscation of selective data, pseudo-science and management-speak there can be less truth than ever in business, politics, marketing and the media. Attainment targets, 'continual improvement', appraisal procedures, public relations, human resources - ongoing conjurers' tricks in a smoke and mirrors conceit. Yet as philosophers and mathematicians have questioned - after all the trickery and deceit, how much certainty, control, and meaning do we have in our carnival of absurdity?
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released June 7, 2020
Recorded and mixed by Daryl Quincy
Vocals and guitar: Daryl Quincy
Bass: Dave Sturt
Drums: Aaron Comess
Produced by Daryl Quincy
Mastered (Hi-Res 96kHz / 32 bit) by Daryl Quincy

Written by J.D.Eden. Published 2020 J.D.Eden
© J.D.Eden 2016 All Rights Reserved. Unauthorised duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
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Senses Collide

Number Crunching

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Introduction to Misapprehension:

Having drawn together numerous talented people over nearly 3 decades, Misapprehension has been created to represent achievements in varying fields, including music, film making, video game production and writing. We are therefore setting up as a record label, film and games studio.

Our first example of this is the launching of the debut album by Daryl Quincy. Daryl began production on this in 2004 using songs written since 1992. He took time out, moving house and jobs and so on and added enough songs to create an album from 2008. Now 12 years further on, after several health difficulties and practical obstacles (housing, hard drive crashes, day jobs, university work etc) the album is launching in 2020. Daryl is our example of never giving up, of fulfilling a dream - however unlikely or unprofitable - to create, to deliver, to experiment living with some regrets and not allowing other regrets, finding out what happens if you reach for the stars keeping your feet on the ground. Ignoring calls of "Don't bother", "Its too much work", "It'll never pay" in order to see projects through that may be a gamble, but in several ways are better done than not done.

Daryl Quincy's debut album, for example, brings together several musicians who's paths coincidentally crossed in the 1980s and he combines them in performance across decades into one song, "Out Of My Head". He fuses Indian, folk, jazz, country, blues, classical and funk music into an album of short catchy 'pop' songs. These have been a long time in production, yet are not 'overproduced' - maintaining some rough edges and real/natural artifacts from basement and attic recordings, with some piano and sax parts even recorded on cassette in the 1990s. His hope is that he has created a natural, 'organic' and genuine anthology, a 'human' album with textures, atmosphere, vulnerability and strength. 

Such a debut album perhaps fittingly encapsulates the ethos of Misapprehension - warmth, humanity, vulnerability, hope and resolve. We hope we deliver this in the creative projects to come. Thank you.