This a song about longing for something - someone or something you've lost, a sense of home or your  'real life' as you might  imagine it. The tune was written by Graham Jones and the music suggested the lyrics to me. Some of the lyrics are his: "what should I do, what can I do." The keyboard was taken from a very old recording (2001/2) I did with Graham playing the song on a cheap Casio or Yamaha. He usually played it on his Korg Polysix analogue synth which sounded much better. This old recording was all I had however and in some ways that was fitting to what the song is about- missing those  hopeful days, days before a lot of things changed in my own life. Ali at Transmission Studios did an amazing job of resurrecting the keyboard and fitting it to the new tempo. It felt a bit like  like we were in a time machine in the studio. Ali also played drums and bass. Julia gave a great performance  on the vocals.  I added the guitars and E-bow.

The Longing Sky

This is a rough demo of a song about emotional superficiality.I wrote the tune and the vocal melody and Graham came up with the line "talk is cheap and so are you" and  I wrote the rest of the lyrics. It was recorded  in a couple of hours and I didn't do any production on it: you can still hear my asthmatic wheezing. Ali Gowan at Transmission Studios is playing drums and bass. Im playing  my first electric guitar "red" on it.

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Unfinished remake of an old jam that I previously posted on here (Darklight Ebow Jam). Graham Jones reprogrammed the 909/808 drums, bass and keys. I play ebow on my guitar running through a VG8 guitar synth and Jason's original   distorted  octave guitar part. Remaking it is going ok so far although at the moment it hasn't got as much variation as the jam and is a bit too loop like. Remaking this was a bit like archaeology. I couldn't work out how Jason was getting so much gain on the original recording until I tried chaining two sansamp distortion pedals together. I then remembered that was what he did that day- borrowing my sansamp while I was on the VG8. 

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DOGSTAR 

As we look up into the dark sky
Something moves, something so high  
There’s relay machines up in the atmosphere
But there’s no signal out here 
The everyday fades down
Eternity surrounds
In benign indifference 
Fireflies light our way and your still perfect skin
Shines with green luciferin 

Night wilderness
Disappearance
Feel how you breathe now we are far away
Day and age just rumours they are
Beneath the summer stars

This is the place where all of the debris
Crashes downhill into the sea
With middle England’s little castles  and
The rubble of banality
Within the sink estates
Emerging life stagnates 
Learns to round on class and kin
Now my boy, you are free, to go just where you will
Lost amongst the firehills 

Night wilderness
Disappearance
Feel how you breathe now we are far away
At the rock, our names, we will carve
Beneath the summer stars

Night wilderneness

We'll soon have to leave
Birds sing another day
This empire of dawn is all ours
Beneath our summer stars






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