Life Works

Black History

Kano - Black History (Extended Mix)

The Highway Rhythm

Favourite Crossroad

Getting Packs In

Hell To Pay

FROZE

Born Again American

Afraid of Place

Afraid Of Place

Outback

First Time

Back in 1973 there was this funny collection of Bowie tracks rereleased that was all Anthony Newley inspired music hall numbers that he'd written in 1967 or so. This included "The Laughing Gnome" song of infamy, and "The Gospel According to Tony Day" along with a bunch of other oddities. I think my brother and I bought this album and one by a band named Brute Force entitled "Confections of Love" that was in a similar vein. We sort of haunted a local store's "cut-out bin" where they tossed this stuff up for grabs for 79 cents apiece. Anyway, this is a tribute to that somewhat godawful/somewhat wonderful period.

Arcade Sketches

Champagne at the Racetrack

There was no web to promote experimentalism when I started in the mid to late seventies. Some of us stumbled on the concept of looped and found material. I bought a dozen Grundig Dicktaphones from a school swap, and built an elaborate plywood deck with an assemblage of recorders and spliced tape and coke bottles and four mics. Some found tapes and recordings made using the Dicktaphone's ability to step and repeat and a shortwave radio to get foreign speech and static set the stage for some of my earliest recording experiments. I also purchased a EMS Synthi - the great analog/digital hybrid synth, capable of accepting hi-level inputs to further bend and treat guitars and vocals.  - versionthirteen

Champagne at the Racetrack

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