Ride The Spyder

Don't Drive Faster (Than Your Angel Can Fly)

The music featuring in this 14 minute piece was written about two years and a half ago at the peak of a series of panic attacks and a rare unidentified illness that had me confined to my room for about 3 weeks. All the music was written as a stream of consciousness directly on an old 1/2" tape machine as my eyes couldn't stand the light of the computer. I had set up my bed on a folding couch in the middle of my studio where each days I would wake up feeling horribly weak and feverish. I would drag myself to the desk where my tape machine was and play whatever came to mind. I would improvise and write an instrumental part from start to finish, record and mix it down to a cassette and I would fall asleep listening to it on loop, as it helped me sleep through the fever. This routine was repeated for exactly 7 days. Though all the parts were written separately, they were all connected by a strange dual-sided scenario I had during a lucid dream: A dying space traveller's son reminiscing about his missing dad's bed time stories and the ill-fated journey of an astronaut travelling through space and time. After recording the entire piece and adjusting it to fit on a cassette tape side I decided I would only give it to a few people because I felt the music was too lo-fi, weird and personal to even consider it as a project. I gave one copy to a dear friend, one to a complete stranger, one to my mum and one to my favourite artist after one of his shows.  I have tried again and again to write lyrics to it, turn those into real songs, write a B side etc but to no avail. It was a gift from the fever and it is now a gift to whomever wants to take this strange journey from the comfort or their home. p.s I suggest you listen to it either lying in bed right before going to sleep, while taking a nap or during that moment in the morning when you are awake but your eyes remain closed. Sleep tight.

Don't Drive Faster (Than Your Angel Can Fly)

Yuma Studio

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