Taken from the new Walken400 album Kindness, Jazz and a Bit of Tidying Up

https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/kindness-jazz-and-a-bit-of-tidying-up

Written, recorded and produced by Johnno Casson.

Bad Vs The Good Good

Taken from the new Walken400 album Kindness, Jazz and a Bit of Tidying Up

https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/kindness-jazz-and-a-bit-of-tidying-up

Written, recorded and produced by Johnno Casson.

Lyrics

Woke up, tried to figure it out
Wasn’t really sleeping, had some things to figure out
Shook up, stepped out, oh that’s the birds singing now
It’s good to put some sun on my face while I just figure this thing out

Oh its quiet now
Oh can we turn this world around
Oh its quiet now
And oh my God, can we turn this world around

(c)Johnno Casson 2020

Quiet Now

Money

Uncanny

Crazy Times

Together

Sweet Delicious Moments

Taken from the new Walken400 album Kindness, Jazz and a Bit of Tidying Up

https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/kindness-jazz-and-a-bit-of-tidying-up

Written, recorded and produced by Johnno Casson.

Lyrics

We ain’t got no funny
We ain’t got no get rich schemes
We ain’t got good feelings
Beyond the ones we fake
For lords and queens

We don’t have no good intentions
We lost them somewhere years ago
We don’t have the time to spend on you alone

We’re the nearest thing to family
The closest thing to gain
The get out of your get our clause
The gravy to your train

Can I just run to the circus now
My heads not right and my body is worn
Can I just get away and join the circus now
And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright

You come here looking for happy stories
They all are buried at the bottom of the lake
If you are hoping for truth and mind expansion
You’re twenty five years too late

You’re the bad news in the bathroom 
The blood stain on your rug
The emptiness that fills your heart
The shame you cannot shrug

Can I just run to the circus now
My heads not right and my body is worn
Can I just get away and join the circus now
And I’ll be alright, I’ll be alright

Repeat to end

© Johnno Casson 2020

Run Away And Join The Circus

Taken from the new Walken400 album Kindness, Jazz and a Bit of Tidying Up

Produced and featuring https://soundcloud.com/brynovsky

https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/kindness-jazz-and-a-bit-of-tidying-up

Live It Up (Featuring Brynovsky)

Taken from the new Walken400 album Kindness, Jazz and a Bit of Tidying Up
https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/kindness-jazz-and-a-bit-of-tidying-up
Written, recorded and produced by Johnno Casson.

Learn To Fly

The new album Walken400 album - Kindness, Jazz and a Bit of Tidying Up is available now https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/kindness-jazz-and-a-bit-of-tidying-up

Walken400 is a side project of the independent British DIY recording artist Johnno Casson (aka Snippet) and it has been an absolute joy to engage with so many new friends here on Soundcloud, thank you for your support.

Kindness, Jazz and a bit of Tidying Up is an album of tall tales and itchy beats, all wrapped in a cheeky, freaky & quite unique-y ball of love.

Walken400 sprung from an active imagination, from listening to tons of glorious jazz, early Bow Wow Wow, Talking Heads, French Pop Music and awkward synthy sounds from around the world, from too much cheap red wine, from taking a vow to always choose kindness wherever possible and from watching Christopher Walken do his wonderfully unique thing in film.

Sounds like a big chunky man (as I am) falling over in a synth superstore, trying to be inconspicuous whilst the drummer keeps time and the singer writes about it.

Johnno was recently described by the wonderfully supportive Tom Robinson as a pioneer of Wonky Pop and was an interview guest on Tom's show on BBC 6 Music back in the heady days of March 2020 (BC).

Johnno has also been described as a pioneer of the Trip-Hop scene of the early 1990's with his band Deep Joy and their association with labels like Mo' Wax and in working with James Lavelle, and legends of their own scenes - (the late great) Andrew Weatherall and Adrian Sherwood.

More recently Johnno has been working with Luke Barwell aka Bitmap and Tim Jones from Brynovsky, whilst running a special social club called The Warm and Toasty Club. This is Johnno's 10th album.

Here's some more back story flavour from Johnno if you want to know more.

The idea of trying to write new songs whilst the world was gripped by Covid-19 was initially very far from my mind and for a good chunk of lockdown it stayed that way.
But music has always been there for me during times of good or times of bad in my life and it was inevitable that I would turn to making music music and writing songs as a way of making sense of things. So I sparked up the synth and tbh it was initially a barren time for me creatively, nothing was happening songwriting wise for weeks.

The blight of mental health issues were gripping me strong and shooting holes in my confidence and telling me that maybe I couldn't do it anymore, i was washed up and I couldn't produce anything of any worth.
So I just wanted to see if anything happened when I got on the computer every day, could I still write and create songs during these crazy times?

Would it still be a relaxing and joyous thing to do around all the worry and concern of just getting through this pandemic and the fight for social justice?Well a little while after that new songs starting to bubble to the surface and what you hear on this page are the results of my endeavours, hope you enjoy

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