A while back, I went through a collection of old cassette tapes and discovered a selection of interesting ideas and demos dating from around 1992 to 1998. Over the last year or so i have been digitising these crusty old cassettes, cleaning up and remastering selected tracks into a coherent album.

This is one track from that album which seems as apt in the present day as it was when I wrote and demo'd it thirty-odd years ago.

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CHRONOFLOW

WHAT CAN YOU SAY WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW?
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN IT DON'T SHOW?
WHAT DO YOU SAY WHEN THEY DON'T SEE
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOU IS HAPPENING TO ME?
IT'S HAPPENING TO YOU
IT'S HAPPENING TO ME
IT'S HAPPENING
 
WHERE DO YOU GO WHEN YOU CAN'T HIDE?
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO STEM THIS TIDE?
HOW CAN WE RIDE CURRENT HISTORY?
WHEN IT'S HAPPENING TO YOU, IT'S HAPPENING TO ME
IT'S HAPPENING
IT'S REALLY HAPPENING
IT'S HAPPENING
IT'S REALLY HAPPENING
 
DIG IT!

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from The Endless Path To The Way Of Tea (Cassette Demos 1992 - 1998)
https://steamabacusproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-path-to-the-way-of-tea

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Album credits ...

The Endless Path To The Way Of Tea

Cassette demos 1992 - 1998


Steve Baker - Vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, balalaika,
bass, drum machine, wow and flutter


Demos recorded on 2- and 4-track cassette between 1992 - 1998
Compiled and remastered 2024 - 2025


© Steve Baker 2025



A SteamAbacus Production

Chronoflow  (Cassette demos 1992 - 1998)

Steve Baker, Producer/Guitarist, London, UK

Guitars, guitars, guitars.....and some more guitars! With a few other devices thrown in (notably, a Line 6 DL4 looping pedal).

All the tracks here are emissions from the venerable 'Steam Abacus' - once a wheezing old pentium-powered antique (Windows 98SE!, mainly utilising Cubase VST 3.7, Cool Edit Pro and T-Racks), now resurrected as an only-slightly-antiquated younger specimen (Windows XP, Cubase SX, et al).

Much is initially recorded direct to minidisc before being edited/compiled on the Steam Abacus.

Some older tracks even started life on Compact Cassette. 

State-of-the-art this ain't!