Cloktacs V

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The music and repurposed voice samples are intended to reflect a sense of (something) slowly built over time.

Silt (Layer 4)

This is a rework of the track Silica Daughter transformed with vocals and lyrics created by Jennifer Roe. 
Please visit her SoundCloud page for more amazing music. 

@jenniferroe

“Crystal Radio” is 4 track album released in 2022.  The central thread related to how time and life flow in an unpredictable pattern, but within boundaries. Lines are created based on decisions we make, big or small.  How different would someone’s life change based on these decisions?  Even say, stopping or not stopping to have a drink at a water fountain, decades previously. Everything after would have been jostled around, but with what impact?  

Two previous tracks have used this theme. ‘Silica Daughter’ appears on the 2021 project “Cloktacs III” and uses a sample where the question is asked, “You won’t fail me will you?”.  Later in 2021, samples from the 90-year-old movie ‘Back Street’ were repurposed to create a radio play called ‘Back Lane’ which will be aired as part of the 2022 Radiophrenia event in Scotland. The storyline of the movie follows a chain of events set in motion by a simple decision that alters the lives of the characters completely, forever, and ends in a classic, ‘what if’…

This all led to creating a new project, interestingly, by deciding to reach out to another SoundCloud artist for help with some spoken word recordings.  As we started working on this new project, Jennifer Roe, took the track ‘Silica Daughter’, added vocal tracks and lyrics inspired by the media samples, and transformed it into something completely new.  The result is absolutely beautiful, is now called ‘Silica Daughters [Ft. Jen Roe]’ and was the impetus and first track for the ‘Crystal Radio’ project. 
The final track “Tracing Home” again features Jennifer who contributed the vocal music and lyrics, bookending this project with two fabulous performances.

Silica Daughters [Ft. Jen Roe]

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“Crystal Radio” is 4 track album released in 2022.  The central thread related to how time and life flow in an unpredictable pattern, but within boundaries. Lines are created based on decisions we make, big or small.  How different would someone’s life change based on these decisions?  Even say, stopping or not stopping to have a drink at a water fountain, decades previously. Everything after would have been jostled around, but with what impact?  

Two previous tracks have used this theme. ‘Silica Daughter’ appears on the 2021 project “Cloktacs III” and uses a sample where the question is asked, “You won’t fail me will you?”.  Later in 2021, samples from the 90-year-old movie ‘Back Street’ were repurposed to create a radio play called ‘Back Lane’ which will be aired as part of the 2022 Radiophrenia event in Scotland. The storyline of the movie follows a chain of events set in motion by a simple decision that alters the lives of the characters completely, forever, and ends in a classic, ‘what if’…

The Telling Garden

Dirty Bicycle

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Start of a new Cloktacs Album..

Provincial Road

Cabinet 81

Sunday School

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This track features vocals and lyrics created by Jennifer Roe. Please visit her SoundCloud page for more amazing music. 

@jenniferroe

“Crystal Radio” is 4 track album released in 2022.  The central thread related to how time and life flow in an unpredictable pattern, but within boundaries. Lines are created based on decisions we make, big or small.  How different would someone’s life change based on these decisions?  Even say, stopping or not stopping to have a drink at a water fountain, decades previously. Everything after would have been jostled around, but with what impact?  

Two previous tracks have used this theme. ‘Silica Daughter’ appears on the 2021 project “Cloktacs III” and uses a sample where the question is asked, “You won’t fail me will you?”.  Later in 2021, samples from the 90-year-old movie ‘Back Street’ were repurposed to create a radio play called ‘Back Lane’ which will be aired as part of the 2022 Radiophrenia event in Scotland. The storyline of the movie follows a chain of events set in motion by a simple decision that alters the lives of the characters completely, forever, and ends in a classic, ‘what if’…

The final track “Tracing Home” again features Jennifer,  bookending this project with two fabulous performances.

Tracing Home [Ft. Jen Roe]

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The original version appears on the fist Cloktacs compilation:

https://soundcloud.com/northfield-lenox/clocktac-0-the-cloktac-theme

I usually go with the less is more approach, however, I started to have some fun remixing this track from 2018 and just kept adding instruments, and by the time the last 8 bars are moving there are around 20 tracks on the go.

The Cloktac Theme (2022 Mix)

The Manitoban - Part 1

The Manitoban  - Part 2

The Manitoban - Part 3

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Flying high and fair
I created chairs
For you, for you

Ways to redecide in view

Reminded there, too late to care
For you, for you
Wait to be in comfort too

Drying in calm air
In disrepair  
Bright blue
For you
Chained to a slightly darker hue
Unblinded there

Two wasted prayers…
“For you”
“For you”

Ways to redecide in view

Created Chairs

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Up to now
Time trials
Sweet tenuity
The air is purified
Time and tale will now divide

Spin somehow
“Turnstile”
This is all we need
Unheard but clarified
Time is ground and ground is sky

Final Transponder

Taxi

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On the track “Mind Without Fear” I took sections of a reading of the poem "Where the mind is without fear" written in 1913 by Rabindranath Tagore. It represents a vision of a new and awakened India. Taking some of the lines out of this context it seems the words have relevance to many challenges globally today.

Mind Without Fear

What Is It Jenny?

Suddenly

Echomeland

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Candle

Well That's Television

Same Old Liar Tape

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This track is a mix of segments of a previously recorded project. It was released temporarily a few times, then completely forgotten about for about 5 years. The intent was to be a soundtrack to a fictitious movie called “CROSSTIE” about a train ride that splits into 2 timelines. Tag Line: "It’s the Destination not the Journey” 

00:00	Main Title
01:30 	Confederation of Cars 2, 3 & 6
04:45	Aurora Initium
07:15	Dialog / Wires Crossed
11:45	Entanglement & Creosote
16:15	Dialog / It’s Never Quite 6:30
17:30	End Title

Cross Tie

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Poem is "The Unseen" by Sara Teasdale

Death Went Up The Hall

In day light
All we ever and always
See is blue

My one flight
Will be higher than either 
Lies or truth

Home! Home!

By day light
All hope ever believed
May fall through

See us through

Father, can you take it away?
Sister, can you kill it today?

Light Clothing

Stay here my little ones
Rain comes, without the sun

For years my precious one
Please stay clear until we've won

Stay here our days may come
The pain we feel
Our daughters run

Stay near, one thread hooks on
Rain anneals us to the sun

Chords For Ukraine

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Poem: "Ascension" by Leland S. Copeland
LibriVox

Powder

The Sunset Handbook

Storm Warning

Malonton

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***2024 – All Northfield Lenox music will be available exclusively on SoundCloud. Cloktac records will no longer be distributing tracks to Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Current music available on these platforms will be drifting away soon . . . .

Thank you for visiting my SoundCloud page. Northfield Lenox creates computer / electronic music combining virtual instruments with samples from media archives, radio, and other field & audio recordings.

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