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October 2020 Top Ten Tracks

These are the Top 20 Most Played Tracks from Wud Records at SoundCloud in 2020.

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October 2019 Top Ten Tracks

These are the Top 20 Most Played Tracks from Wud Records at SoundCloud in 2019.

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http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-20-played-tracks-2019/

20 Most Played Tracks of 2019

Upbeat Electronic dangerous music with a catchy eastern vibe.

Death Is A Disease

Buy for $0.50

Go Buy Love

*** Work In Progress / Demo ***

Dead Generation by Dark Company
Album: Noir

Lyrics: P. Greatorex
Music: G. Davies/P. Greatorex
Recorded, engineered and mixed at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter.

Copyright © 2015 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2009 The Dark Brothers / Explicit Music.

Performers:
PJ Speed - vocals
Zak Black - guitars
Maxx Damage - bass
Sven Stiglund - drums

DEAD GENERATION
Why don’t you have the voices
That we used to hear
Why don’t you know the stories
Why don’t you live the fear

Why don’t you have the juice
That makes it all so clear
Without the kicks you won’t know
If you’re really here

Why don’t you
Why don’t you
Why don’t you need
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you free
(Be like me)

Why don’t you
Why don’t you
Why don’t you need
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you free
(Be like me)

Why don’t you have the pain
That you should really feel
Why don’t you see what we saw
Why don’t you think it’s real

Why don’t you have the hate
That you should really have
Why’re you so dumb and bland
Why don’t you fight them back

Why don’t you
Why don’t you
Why don’t you need
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you free
(Be like me)

Why don’t you
Why don’t you
Why don’t you need
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you free
(Be like me)

Why don’t you have the speed
To make you fast enough
Why don’t you have the words
To talk about sweet love

Why don’t you see me here
Looking down the years
Saying don’t you worry
It’s just time you fear

Why don’t you
Why don’t you
Why don’t you need
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you free
(Be like me)

Why don’t you
Why don’t you
Why don’t you need
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you free
(Be like me)

Why don’t you
Why don’t you
Why don’t you need
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you
Why aren’t you free
(Be like me)
(Be like me)
(Be like me)

Fun Facts:
This is a song in the key of E minor.
The guitars are all a bit jumbled up in this version although the ideas are largely right.
There are also sometimes too many notes in the bass.
The 'mystery chord' is F#m11/E - fret the A and G strings on the 9th fret, the D string on the 7th fret and let the three open strings ring out.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/noir/
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/noir/dead-generation
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/

Email: darkcompany@wudrecords.co.uk

Noir

Dead Generation

Dark Company: Dead Generation (alpha mix)

*** Work In Progress / Demo ***

Amanita Alice by Dark Company
Album: Bad Habits

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.
Recorded, engineered and mixed at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter.

Copyright © 2008 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2008 The Dark Brothers/Explicit Music.

Performers:
PJ Speed – vocals
Zak Black – guitars
Josh Reynes - keys
Maxx Damage - bass
Sven Stiglund - drums

AMANITA ALICE
Everybody move round there’s no room
One place one space knife fork and spoon
Glue in the hat made him see
The seats were filled there was nowhere free

Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day

View from the hill in a chessboard land
The strangest thoughts of a well known man
Under a tree on sunlit grass
Mushroom questions all were asked
A doorway opened in the ground
Through which you went without a sound

Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day

Just a dream in the afternoon
From which you’ll wake far too soon

Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day
Child of a summer day

Fun facts:
This song is in the key of Dm and the stratocaster which plays the main guitar part is tuned to DADGAD.
Pete loved the solo at the end and would play air guitar to it, sometimes in his kitchen with an open packet of rice in hand.
He would report by text message a monumental spillage from time to time.
Two tracks of guitar feedback from the Ice Maiden were recorded for this song and both run for the entire length of it, causing local neighbourly disgruntlement chez Zak.
A little twinkly keyboard was used and plays exactly the same notes during the D section and the Eb section, neither of which it is quite in tune with.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/bad-habits
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/bad-habits/amanita-alice
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Bad Habits

Amanita Alice

Dark Company: Amanita Alice (alpha mix)

*** Work In Progress / Demo ***

One Heart by Dark Company
Album: Bad Habits

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.
Recorded, engineered and mixed at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter.

Copyright © 2008 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2008 The Dark Brothers/Explicit Music.

Performers:
PJ Speed – vocals
Zak Black – guitars
Josh Reynes - keys, organ
Maxx Damage - bass
Sven Stiglund - acoustic and electric drums

ONE HEART
One heart, one love, one belief is quite enough
One world, one way, one power that’s for the day
Where you go, what you see, what you say is what you’ll be
Where you run, where you climb, what you believe is your life’s time

What you wish, what you dream, what you know is what you’ve seen
What you make, what you do, what you are is from these two
There’s the start, there’s the end, there’s the time for you to spend
In the day, in the night, in between you live your life

Whatever you wish, whatever you dream
Win or lose it’s yours to do
Whatever you see, whatever you say
When you see the mirror you’ll pass right through

Whatever you wish, whatever you dream
Win or lose it’s yours to do
Whatever you see, whatever you say
When you see the mirror you’ll pass right through

One heart, one love, one belief is quite enough
One world, one way, one power that’s for the day
Where you go, what you see, what you say is what you’ll be
Where you run, where you climb, what you believe is your life’s time

When you see the mirror you’ll pass right through
When you see the mirror you’ll pass right through
When you see the mirror you’ll pass right through
When you see the mirror you’ll pass right through

Что бы вы хотели, что бы вы сон
Выигрывая или проигрывая, он твой, чтобы делать
Что бы вы видите, что вы говорите
Когда вы видите в зеркало вы будете проходить насквозь

Что бы вы хотели, что бы вы сон
Выигрывая или проигрывая, он твой, чтобы делать
Что бы вы видите, что вы говорите
Когда вы видите в зеркало вы будете проходить насквозь

Fun facts:
Zak plays all the arpeggios and there are delays but no loops.
The sub bass towards the end will cause speaker-flap.
Pete wanted an organ, and behold, one appeared.
In the beginning this song was titled simply "One" and the heart was added subsequently to avoid any confusion with Metallica.
The Russian part is the "Whatever you wish" verse backwards.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/bad-habits
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/bad-habits/one-heart
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

One Heart

Dark Company: One Heart (beta mix)

Another Star in the Sky by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/L. Welsman.

Performers:
George: guitars, keys, synths, percussion
Dave: Plank, drums
Lucy: cello

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, synths and percussion recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.
Stratocaster solos recorded by Dan Davies.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Another Star in the Sky is dedicated to George’s father, who passed away around the time of its creation.
* He never heard it.
* In the evening of the day when Mr Davies senior died, the sky was cloudy and only one star could be seen.
* Another Star in the Sky was almost named Another Scar in the Sty due to an outburst of mispronunciation.
* This would have been appropriate in some ways, because George (bass) and Dave (drums) were playing in a kick-ass folk band called Pyg at the same time.
* Pyg’s live performances could be a bit hit-or-miss, due to some of the dynamics within the band.
= Some of Pyg’s songs can be heard in the Archives section of the Wud Records website.
* Another Star in the Sky is based around the acoustic guitar part.
* It is in 6/8 time at a sedate 75 BPM.
* The key is G# minor, and it ends on a B major.
* Lucy’s cello copies the acoustic’s melody.
* George’s son Dan helped with the recording of the Stratocaster solos.
* Dan took up playing guitar that day and has now become a fabulous and accomplised player.
* No real horn players could be found at the time, so those parts were played using MIDI.
* The horn parts are actually quite amusing and rather scrappy.
* One of the guitar parts was made by setting the old Marshall to the most horrible sound possible, with maximum overdrive, presence and treble, and no mid or bass.
* The idea for this came from a track by Tindersticks, called Vertrauen II, from their second album.
* Dave was wincing as if to say “This just isn’t gonna work!”
* The part was dropped back in the mix and treated to a little reverb and it was “just right”.
* The idea for the simple yet distinct piano came from a piece George used to play on piano as a boy of about nine.
* It was from Forest Fantasies by Walter Carroll.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/another-star-in-the-sky

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/another-star-in-the-sky
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/pyg-2/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

At Least 1000 Words

Another Star in the Sky

Flicker: Another Star in the Sky

The Percolator by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by D. Danielli/G. Davies.    

Performers:
George: guitars
Dave: bass, percussion
Emma: flute

Project directed by George Davies.

Recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* The Percolator was initally composed by Dave and modified into a Flicker tune by George.
* Dave took George’s Stratocaster home to give it some TLC, and when he brought it back, this crazy tune had sprung forth from it into his hands.
* It seems to be about the vague imaginings one might have that manifest into more coherent thought after musing has occured.
* This may be nonsense though – Dave composed it initially and maybe it was just some tune.
* The time signature is very variable, so Flicker set the metronome to record in 1/8 at 150 BPM.
* This meant it had an insane amount of bars on the sequencer.
* This resulted in comments like “Let’s go back to bar 2340 and try from there” – quite impressive for the shortest piece on the album!
* It can be thought of as being largely in a slow eleven time, with the odd bar of six after the Em9.
* It’s easiest to count ||: 1-2-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3- :||
* Emma’s flute towards the end represents the steam when boiling takes place.
* The brutality of the djembe doing the bass drum is important.
* George said that the melody seemed quite obvious once he’d understood the chords properly.
* George composed and scored the flute part for Emma after his guitar melody materialised.
* Scoring the part for Emma using pencil and paper was the first time George had had to use music score in a real-life situation for years.
* This piece is in D minor, although the C minor adds a cunning twist.
* One of the keys to unlocking the rhythm of the piece is to follow the cowbell.
* It plays on every other beat, so sometimes it is on the beat and sometimes off.
* More cowbell!
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/the-percolator

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-percolator
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Video of George playing the acoustic guitar part, with out-takes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EzCjSTSyG8
"And now...!"

The Percolator

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Flicker: The Percolator

Oily Road Hideaway by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.   

Performers:
George: guitars, Plank, string fish, synths
Dave: bass, percussion, keys, programming

Project directed by George Davies.

Recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Oily Road Hideaway is in the key of G minor and the tempo is 85 BPM.
* It was composed at around eleven o’clock on a Friday morning in October 2000.
* Instead of being at home composing a tune, George should have been in Luxembourg to celebrate Floyd and Kat’s wedding.
* Unfortunately, Joe’s old Ford Sierra wasn’t up to the task of completing the journey.
* At around 3am, the old Ford emptied the contents of its sump all over the A303, about two miles from Stonehenge.
* The stricken Sierra was towed right back to Exeter and its sleepy occupants returned to their homes, disappointed.
* Within 15 minutes of returning home, George had composed this piece on a Hokada classical guitar.
* Nearly all the other pieces on the album At Least 1000 Words had their drums recorded at Tim’s house in North Devon, in a room about the size of a toilet.
* The mics were all pretty horrid too, and the whole system looked like it had been built by Captain Hook at a Heath Robinson school for elementary electronics.
* Oily Road Hideaway is the only track on the album that uses programmed drums.
* The rhythm breakdown in the middle of the piece was somewhat longer originally, and cut down quite drastically to save precious space on the CD.
* The Hokada classical guitar, on which the piece was written, plays two parts panned to the left.
* One is the main rhythm part, and the other a melodic motif, which only uses the two top strings.
* The nature of the part means that if one should find oneself at a party where there is a wreck of a two-string guitar, it is still possible to play Oily Road Hideaway!
* The other lead guitar part is played on the Yamaha steel string, which is panned to the right and plays unison with the bass to begin.
* Oily Road Hideaway features a delicate, wistful ostinato played on the string fish, an extraordinary instrument built by Martin from Pyg.
* It starts at 2:05 and continues to the drum break, then reappears at 2:54 and plays until the end.
* A string fish is a like a pair of dulcimers or zithers, joined together at an acute angle.
* The strings are vertical and to play a scale, the player must alternate between the left and right side, like a kalimba.
* Dave and George both play a unison bassline, on the Fender and the Plank respectively.
* George and the Plank are panned right, Dave and the Fender panned left.
* Just after the drum break, at 2:48, George plays two notes that Dave doesn’t play.
* Other than that, their parts are beautifully in sync.
* Flicker would have liked very much to have found a brass section for Oily Road Hideaway, but none was available.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/oily-road-hideaway

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/oily-road-hideaway
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Oily Road Hideaway

Flicker: Oily Road Hideaway

Lucky Stone by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Performers:
George: guitars, keys, synths, samples
Dave: bass, drums, percussion

Samples:
thewavplace.com, the wildlife and nature of Sidmouth seafront

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at The Old Mill Studios, Thorverton.
Recording engineer: Greg Daniels
Everything else recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Lucky Stone is an intriguing track, with all its different styles and sound effects.
* Its moods encompass jazz, rock, reggae, funk and sea shanty.
* Lucky Stone describes a day at the seaside when George took his young son and new girlfriend to Sidmouth.
* There was a sudden thunderstorm and everyone was soaked.
* The sound of the thunder and the playing children represent those memories.
* The new girlfriend gave George a stone from the beach that day.
* It was a talisman for the duration of their relationship and lived in the dashboard of George’s car.
* Lucky Stone also describes a fortunate and unexpected encounter with a trader on the same day, who had an excess of goods he could impart.
* Lucky Stone started coming together the day Dave and George first played with Adi on drums in Bandspace in October 2000.
* Flicker were also auditioning a possible singer called Vince, and his mate came too.
* They were both sailors in the Royal Navy, on leave.
* Each had a large bottle of vodka and they both got absolutely smashed while Flicker were setting up.
* Poor Vince felt quite embarrassed because his mate started getting a bit out of order.
* He had to be stopped from playing Adi’s drums and fiddling with the settings on the amps.
* Soon after, the pair were forcibly ejected.
* The origin of the tune was the reggae section.
* Dave’s bassline is performed on the Fender.
* The acoustic guitar plays both electric guitar parts.
* The low electric guitar and reggae parts were played using Nicodemus.
* The higher rhythm parts and swoops were performed on the Ice Maiden.
* It starts in E major, morphs into E minor and ends on a G major.
* No ducks were harmed during the making of this tune – although it was close.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/lucky-stone

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/george-interviewed-in-2002/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/lucky-stone
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Lucky Stone

Flicker: Lucky Stone

Blown Away by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.   

Performers:
George: guitars, synths
Dave: bass, drums

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Blown Away is a piece that is about surprise, although it actually contains few true musical surprises.
* Holding tight to shaky foundations that you know will not last, in order to survive one big difficulty, leads to yet another big difficulty further along.
* Blown Away is a reminder that next time, one should trust one’s intuition and refrain from such tomfoolery.
* The key for Blown Away is E major and the tempo is 125 BPM.
* The whole tune grew out of the C# minor to C section quite quickly in October 2000.
* There are quite a lot of guitar parts, quiet ones that you don’t hear on the first listening.
* A guitar far back in the mix is playing G# while the rest of the band plays C.
* This helps to set up a weird dissonant mood.
* The lead part where the sustained notes turn to feedback was fun and very satisfying to record.
* George says it is something he learned from Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, lead guitarist of Blue Oyster Cult.
* Dave plays the bassline on his Fender.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/blown-away

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/blown-away
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Blown Away

Flicker: Blown Away

Welcome to the Family by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/F. Zoboki/A. Celestine. 

Performers:
George: guitars
Dave: bass, drums, keys, synths

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings and synths recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1999 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* George had made friends with a Hungarian man called Floyd who showed him a new chord from a Portuguese sea shanty.
* The mystery chord is Bm11b5.
* It is played by holding the A and G strings on the second fret with the first and second fingers, and the D and B strings on the third fret using the third and fourth fingers, with the hi-E open and the lo-E muted.
* The other two chords in the song were A minor and E.
* When George was headhunted by the MD of the company Floyd worked for, Floyd gave him a copy of Mario Puzzo’s book The Godfather, and wrote ‘Welcome to the family!’ inside the front cover.
* Obviously this piece could have no other name.
* Welcome to the Family is in the key of A minor.
* The tempo for this tune is 98.0035 BPM.
* Emma recorded an extra part on the keys that was not used in the end.
* The Stratocaster enters to play rhythm on the second verse.
* The Ice Maiden takes the twin lead parts at the end.
* Some trombone was also planned, but there were no players around at the time, so the final mix remains without it.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/welcome-to-the-family

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-the-family
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Welcome to the Family

Flicker: Welcome to the Family

Aeroplane by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/P. Jones/L. Welsman.

Performers:
George: guitars
Dave: Plank, drums, synth, keys
Lucy: cello

Samples:
thewavplace.com

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, percussion and synths recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1996 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Aeroplane is a guitar piece in a non-standard tuning – DADFCE.
* A man called Hum showed George this tuning at party in Exeter in about 1994 or 1995.
* Lovely as it was, George found it very hard to write something within its confines until late 1996.
* Aeroplane was the first tune George wrote upon moving to Prague, near the Pražského Povstání metro station.
* He says “There wasn’t too much else to do when I first got there, with just an acoustic and the World Service for company.”
* Phil the Fiddle played some lovely soaring thermals during the frequent Doctor Watson performances on Karlov Most.
* When it was time to record Aeroplane, no fiddle player was available.
* Lucy stepped in and did much the same kind of thing on her 150-year-old blonde cello, which shook the whole room with its magnificence.
* George drew inpiration for this piece from his first ever flight, looking down on London and the clouds for the first time.
* He describes the flight as “being on this big metal thing that I couldn’t possibly lift, held in the sky with magic.”
* Aeroplane is dedicated to Jana “Sweet Jane” Koubova, who helped with the Czech language and was George’s first native Czech friend.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/aeroplane

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aeroplane
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Video of George playing the acoustic guitar part, with out-takes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJayOjRlfc

Aeroplane

Flicker: Aeroplane

Week Five by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.

Performers:
George: guitars, samples
Dave: bass, dums, djembe, clave, EDP Wasp 

Samples:
The Prague Metro 1997

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings, percussion and synths recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1996 Explicit Music. 

Fun Facts:
* Week Five is a tune that George wrote around the time of his TESOL course in the spring of 1996.
* It was a four week course, so Week Five is all the stuff that happens to you as a teacher after completing that initial course of training.
* The sound of the train was recorded on the cassette recorder George hauled around Prague for teaching.
* He left it running on a journey from his room at the Hotel Opatov to the office of his school, English House, in Albertov, in order to capture some ambient sounds of the city.
* Week Five is essentially a two-chord tune – F# minor and E.
* The tempo is 135 BPM.
* There are five ‘verses’ to Week Five, one for each week.
* As the piece progresses, each ‘verse’ becomes a little more intense than the previous one.
* The fourth and fifth verses are slightly longer than the first three.
* The fourth week involved a great deal of work, so that deserved an extra few bars.
* The fifth week represents the rest of one’s life after the course is finished, which hopefully is longer than four weeks.
* Week Five is dedicated to the guinea-pig students at Sidmouth International School in Spring 1996 – Sandi, Tammi, Keiko, Myrtle and Dilek, and tutor Vincent, as well as the other trainees, tutors and students.
* A little credit must go to Adi Celestine for defining the ending.
* In a perfect world this tune would have been 5:05 minutes in length.
* 505 was the number of the night bus, or the “magic bus”, that would take George back to Opatov after a night of revelry in Prague.
* The acoustic guitar rhythm gives the tune a train-ish vibe.
* The percussion and latin feel were intended to make the piece appear more cosmopolitan.
* Due to lack of space on the CD, the soundscape at the beginning was drastically curtailed.
* This was a shame as it took ages to make the panning and editing just right.
* Pražského Povstání was chosen because that metro station was very close to where George lived to begin with, before moving out to Opatov.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/week-five

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/week-five
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Week Five

Flicker: Week Five

Farsight by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/G. Barbe/N. Board.

Performers:
George: guitars, synths, keys, samples
Dave: bass, drums, samples 

Samples:
Maharaj Ji, Jonathan Agnew, stinsv.com

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Farsight is the oldest piece on the album At Least 1000 Words.
* It is a piece that George wrote around March 1995, during the days of The Ug Brothers.
* Any recordings of the original have been lost to the vortices of time and the land of refugee cassettes – the Tape Void, as the Ug drummer Graham used to call it.
* Originally there were words for it too.
* These lyrics described the kingdoms of the mind, those inner spaces, places and temples; the mythology of the self that begins in early childhood, a mysterious and magical place that is a sanctuary where only you can go, a place that is reachable in the blink of an eye yet can be so far, far away in space, time and reality.
* This place never really allows any other individual, however close a relationship and understanding they may have with you, ‘access all areas’ – perhaps for the best, as we all need our own castle to retreat to occasionally.
* Farsight is dedicated to that very world that exists within all of us, our private fantasy space, where we go in our dreamtime, and the place from where art comes or is filtered through to us from the farside perhaps, and the zone you are in when you are ‘in the zone’.
* Dave then wrote some other more Ug-like words.
* The only two that can be recalled are “wondering why”.
* The Ug Brothers disbanded before the song was ever performed live.
* This was a great shame as Farsight was one of the band’s collective favourites and one of the last new pieces they worked upon.
* We have been unable to dig up any Ug Brothers recordings of Farsight.
* Natalie, the Ug singer, came up with a vocal melody for the lost lyrics penned by Dave.
* A small fragment of that melody remains, in the very beginning of the lead guitar part, the rest again vanished forever to the realms of nilspace.
* This instrumental version of Farsight seemed to be a convenient resolution.
* In as many ways as possible it is largely true to the original Ug Brothers version.
* The piece begins in G minor but ends in C major and runs at 120 bpm.
* That was exactly the speed of the rhythm of the bridge on the USS Enterprise in the first Star Trek series, a sound which we used from the website www.stinsv.com, and just seemed perfect by its synchronicity.
* As the piece begins you can hear a Klingon door opening, from the same site – to let you in.
* Flicker tried to get the sound of a motor race into the soundscape, but it didn’t work so was left out.
* The percussion is probably not so different from the original played by Graham, again lost to the mists of time.
* Dave certainly delayed coming in with the full drumkit to the exact same point as The Ug Brothers.
* Dave’s beautifully expressive and critically acclaimed bassline, played on the Fender, was what drove and made the piece distinct.
* All the guitar parts are played on the Ice Maiden apart from the lead line, which was recorded using Nicodemus.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/farsight

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Farsight

Flicker: Farsight

Moonpath by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.    

Performers:
George: guitars, Plank, synths, percussion
Dave: drums, djembe

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at The Old Mill Studios, Thorverton.
Recording engineer: Greg Daniels
Strings, synths and percussion recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* After dark, when the moon is low in the sky, it makes a beautiful shiny road to itself all the way along the top of the sea.
* The moon always looks so beautiful on the sea at Sidmouth, where Flicker and their friends used to go.
* Sidmouth is bang in the centre of Lyme Bay, and the sea looks so big.
* The moonpath there was even better before all the breakwaters were built.
* The guitar parts for Moonpath were all played using the Ice Maiden, which is double tracked left and right.
* The rhythm guitar was the origin of the track and carries the melody as well.
* The tempo is 138 BPM and the key is C# minor.
* There are many hybrid chords involving fretted notes and harmoonics.
* Moonpath ends up on a B.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/moonpath

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/moonpath
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Moonpath

Flicker: Moonpath

That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard by Wud

Words and music by George Davies.
Recorded and produced by Ian Dent at Daylight Recording Studios, Honiton.
Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1985 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Explicit Music.

Performers:
Ken Staple – voices
George Davies – guitars

THAT’S NO WAY TO PAY A BODYGUARD
Well there’s whisky on the shelf
What are you running from?
Do you know if you’re coming or going?
Well I have got an idea
You’ll need someone to look after you
Just like I know that I can do

And you know that’s not what I want from you
And you know it’s over when the day is through

Well that’s no way to pay a bodyguard
I don’t want to be tied down
And I am so afraid of you
Because I know just what you can do

And you know that’s not what I want from you
And you know it’s over when the day is through

Fun Facts:
This song in the key of Am was written a few days after George spent a day in the Stokeinteignhead music studio of a friend of his father’s.
Said friend of father played the two chords that begin the song as he tested that the necessary things were all on.
Having never seen the second chord before, George thought “Aha!”, although he spent most of the day fiddling with the rather magnificent organ and all its sounds and buttons and levers.
The instrumental section that goes C-Bb-F-G-Am-Em-Bm-Dm originally had some lyrics that made a chorus that spoke of such things as sheep, fields, grass and the relative merits of the colours thereof.
These were soon dropped due to being too silly.
Fairly near the start of this version George almost makes a right mess of the lead guitar - again - but just about manages to get away with it.
It’s take 3407, or thereabouts.
The guitar used for this song was a Westone Paduak, which has subsequently seen a fair amount of action over the years and now lives at Cliff’s house.
The sound of the guitar was never really quite right on this recording.
It sounded much better when played through an Electric Mistress and a proper amplifier.
This version also misses the drums and bass guitar.
Ken is extremely restrained in the performance.
The title of this song was too long for the eventual cassette that was produced, and was truncated to simply Bodyguard.
This song was something a campfire favourite amongst the Wud posse.

See also:
www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/wudtheband
www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/wud/daylight-demo/thats-no-way-to-pay-a-bodyguard
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/daylight-demo
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Daylight Demo

That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard

Wud: That's No Way to Pay a Bodyguard (DD)

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.
Recorded, engineered and mixed at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992-3.
Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1993 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:
Peter Greatorex – vocals
George Davies – guitars, sequencing
Jeff Willmot – bass, sequencing

MEDICINES
I can see that dark-set face
Hands crawl by fingering fate
Parsely, sage, rosary of time
Herbs to heal the modern mind
A wounded lover with a clockspring heart
Hears not the Heavens only metal stars
Drinks the liquor of certain flowers
Is released from lust to count the hours
There inside a secret garden
There inside a secret garden

Night’s sweet hush is for us all
No creeping thing is too small
Wings and webs a mottled map
Dawn will take the empties back
A solo soldier with a gunmetal head
Hears only the music of the marching dead
Drinks the liquor of certain flowers
Is released from lust to count the hours
There inside a secret garden
There inside a secret garden

Writhing vines climb the hill
Where we stand so very still
Columbine perfumed dark
The whitest flowers an eternal spark
A parish priest with a Bibled mouth
Speaks unnoticed of God and Doubt
Drinks the liquor of certain flowers
Is released from lust to count the hours
There inside a secret garden
There inside a secret garden 

Fun facts:
This song is in the key of A#.
George plays the guitar parts on the Ice Maiden.
Jeff played his bassline into the S900.
When Pete sang the melody to George for the first time it took him ages to decide which of the multitude of different possibilities to go with.
There are two simultaneous guitar solos at the start of the song, both of which were recorded on the first take.
Pete was initially sceptical about the whispered vocal.
Various acoustic versions of this later appeared with the song transposed down to A.
It was performed by The Bastard Sons of Dennis and Dr Watson and used as a teaching resource by George in his TEFL classes.
Some of the bassdrum and snare parts were recorded by randomly bashing keys and then quantising.
It produced some remarkably pleasing results.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/rage-in-heaven
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/medicines
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Rage in Heaven

Medicines

Dark Company: Medicines

Future Sadness Past by Dark Company.
Album: Signmaker

FUTURE SADNESS PAST
Slow light, runway from the sun
So right, time and times are done
We must pay the price for fun
Until we have Night Man on the run

Slow light, MacBeth witches’ brew
Best seen from some distant view
We know, do what you have to do
It’s an icy night we must all live through

Now we rage against the cold sky
Now we hate tomorrow
Now we say we will try
To kill the birds of sorrow
To kill the birds of sorrow

★

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Performers:
Peter Greatorex – vocals, cigarette lighter, fast fret tin
George Davies – guitar
Jeff Willmot – bass

Recorded live at Silent Running Studios, Exeter, Autumn 1991.
Audio lifted from a cassette bootleg and cleaned.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios 2010.

Originally released 19th December 1991.
First re-release March 1992.
Second re-release June 2000.
Third re-release 16th December 2010.

Cover Art:
Mushroom Baby by Peter Greatorex

Copyright ℗ 1991 D & G Music.
Copyright © 2010 Wud Records.

Fun Facts:
* This song was composed using just a bass, a guitar, their volume knobs and a shiny new set of lyrics from the prolific pen of Pete.
* An Alesis Quadraverb Plus and a few pipes of some extraordinarily good gear also deserve accreditation.
* Several subsequent attempts were made to record Future Sadness Past using the reel-to-reel machine.
* This live version was by far everybody’s favourite.
* It is lifted straight off the rehearsal cassette from the day when it was originally created.
* George plays Nicodemus for the beautiful icy ringing of the strings when played beyond the bridge and the nut.
* Jeff was rather fond of using his Mighty Mite bass to make whale noises and would often break into them during quieter moments.
* He would also play a solo version of Misty by Johnny Mathis on the bass, which was completely wonderful.
* An acoustic version of Future Sadness Past song emerged a few years after the original.
* It is based around an Em9 chord, exactly the same chord as the start of Ship to Shore.
* Future Sadness Past is completely atemporal and relies on the performers’ interactions.
* There are no beats at all until Pete starts flicking his unusual Zippo gas lighter by the mic and then tapping George’s Fast Fret tin with it.
* We felt these added sounds were very atmospheric, reminiscent of the clicking of dry bones echoing from inside a fog over the darkened River Styx.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/signmaker/future-sadness-past
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Signmaker

Future Sadness Past

Dark Company: Future Sadness Past

Shake Yer Brother by The Ug Brothers

Words: D. Danielli/G. Davies
Music: G. Davies/D. Danielli/G. Barbe/N. Board

Recorded, engineered, mixed and produced by George Davies at Wud Records Studio Three, Fore Street, Exeter in Spring 1995.

Album art by Barb Design/Wud Records.

Copyright © 1995 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Ug Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:
Natalie Board – vocals
George Davies – guitar, vocals
Dave Danielli – bass
Graham Barbe – drums

SHAKE YER BROTHER
Taking time as it comes
You ain’t taking it on the run
There’s sure to be friends
You’ve gotta take care until the end
Too many freak-outs to be reconciled
So calm the inner voices of your mind
Remember the trust of a child

Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister

What could be better than the love of your friends
What could be better than the love of your friends
What could be better than the love of your friends
What could be better than the love of your friends

Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister

All of us are each other
So please don’t hurt me brother
Put some peace into this world
Be careful with your mind
Let’s stick together now and forever
Throughout these empty nights
We’ll be together to defend our rights
Look up into the light

Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister
Shake yer brother shake yer sister

Fun Facts:
During the last days of Dark Company’s second incarnation there was a part-written song called Mustn’t But Must which was never finished and the guitar part from that song became the guitar part for this song instead.
The first lyrics were the ‘Shake yer brother’ lines which George wrote.
Dave wrote all the rest of the words apart from the ‘What could be better’ lines which again George wrote.
This song is in Am and has a 6/8 feel.
Sometimes The Ug Brothers would use the ending of this song to break down into feedback and noise to start off The Ug Song, instead of using Spin Gone Crazy to break down into feedback and noise to start off The Ug Song.
The vocal harmonies and ‘Ooooo’ sections were all created by Natalie.
‘Look up into the light’ refers to the Sephirah Kether from the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, implying a raising one’s spiritual consciousness, rather than squinting at a 60 watt pearl bulb.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird/shake-yer-brother
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cute-but-weird
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Cute But Weird

Shake Yer Brother

The Ug Brothers: Shake Yer Brother

Spin Gone Crazy by The Ug Brothers

Words: D. Danielli
Music: G. Davies/D. Danielli/G. Barbe/N. Board

Recorded, engineered, mixed and produced by George Davies at Wud Records Studio Three, Fore Street, Exeter in Spring 1995.

Album art by Barb Design/Wud Records.

Copyright © 1995 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Ug Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:
Natalie Board – vocals
George Davies – guitar
Dave Danielli – bass
Graham Barbe – drums

SPIN GONE CRAZY
Always on the outside I’m working on the inside
Always on the outside I’m focused and free
A taste for freedom will beat the system
I’m focused and free

A force for freedom feeling good in my veins
I’m cutting loose from the city
I’m cutting my chains

Always on the outside I’m working on the inside
Always on the outside I’m focused and free
Lives keep on changing it’s synchronicity
It’s something so natural
Life and love are free

Spinning of the wheel getting faster and faster
Get out onto the road and ride into the future

A force for freedom feeling good in my veins
I’m cutting out the conflict
I’m cutting my chains

Always on the outside I’m working on the inside
Always on the outside I’m focused and free
Going through the changes
Watching you watching me
It’s something so natural
Life and love are free

I feel the wheels turning round and round and round
I hear the engine howling
I feel the wind on my face
Shiny metal in the hot summer sun
Flashing lights through the trees
Watching people wondering why
Burning rubber in the haze
Spin gone crazy

Fun Facts:
This song began life as a guitar riff in Dm, which appears right at the start.
This riff seemed to be an endless loop that didn’t go anywhere else for several years and then one day, during an Ug Brothers jam, it developed into this.
Dave wrote the words to describe his feelings about motorcycling.
This was something of a favourite when played live with its pounding bass and musical harmonies.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird/spin-gone-crazy
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cute-but-weird
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Spin Gone Crazy

The Ug Brothers: Spin Gone Crazy

What Is It? by The Ug Brothers

Words: D. Danielli
Music: G. Davies/D. Danielli/G. Barbe/N. Board

Recorded, engineered, mixed and produced by George Davies at Wud Records Studio Three, Fore Street, Exeter in Spring 1995.

Album art by Barb Design/Wud Records.

Copyright © 1995 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Ug Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:
Natalie Board – vocals
George Davies – guitar, vocals
Dave Danielli – bass
Graham Barbe – drums

WHAT IS IT?
Move on up
What is it
Will you stay on line
What is it
Will you stay in time
What is it
Clearly defined
This is it
Every time

Move on up keep a smile on your face
Turning the dial setting the pace
Taking life easy fitting into the plan
Giving it all just to understand

What is it
What is it
What is it

Move on up
What is it
Are we you or me
What is it
Can you be set free
What is it
Easy destiny
This is it
Every time

One more step to open the door
Step right through to the inner core
Keep on moving take it right to the top
Feel it coming there’s no time to stop

All that you believe in is here and now
And all that you are feeling is under your control
Every little piece of all experience is living
Every possibility of anything is now
Take a look around you and anything can happen
If you want to map it out start thinking in a pattern
Just keep a cool head on the razor’s edge and anything is yours
Monkey see, monkey get

Here it is a simple pleasure
Keep pushing through just to be together
A living experience on higher ground
A healing feeling, live it up, get down

What is it
What is it
What is it
This is it

Gotta move it on up
Gotta move it on up

Fun Facts:
There was a slight mishap during the recording of this song.
George accidentally erased Dave’s talkover so had to record one himself.
It ended up staying on the recording instead of Dave re-recording his part.
The key for this song is Cm and the origin of it was the guitar at the very beginning.
“A living experience on higher ground” refers to a metaphorical spiritual higher ground, rather than moving house to live at the top of a hill.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird/what-is-it
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cute-but-weird
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

What Is It?

The Ug Brothers: What Is It?

Lifetime by The Ug Brothers

Words: D. Danielli
Music: D. Danielli/G. Davies/G. Barbe/N. Board

Recorded, engineered, mixed and produced by George Davies at Wud Records Studio Three, Fore Street, Exeter in Spring 1995.

Album art by Barb Design/Wud Records.

Copyright © 1995 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Ug Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:
Natalie Board – vocals
George Davies – guitar, vocals
Dave Danielli – bass
Graham Barbe – drums

LIFETIME
Words can tell me some things but there’s much more to say
You can’t catch your freedom but you can give it away
Here’s a moment’s creation
Here’s a billion people
Here’s a child in my arms
Here’s another day
Once in every lifetime for every experience
For everything

You and me we’re a paradox
We could be total strangers
And the grey ones among us are strangers to us all
You and me as people
We’re all one big heartbeat
Between the good and the evil
We’re all the same wall
Social inter-harmony
Racial co-existence
Reflections of each other make up all our ways

Words can tell us some things but there’s much more can be said
It’s all a case of freedom
Never throw it away
Here’s a new emotion
Here’s a reason to stay
Here’s my heart’s resolution
Here’s the way
Once in every lifetime for every experience
You can do what you want
But do you really want what you do?

Fun Facts:
This song in A started life before the Ug Brothers reformed in the summer of 1994.
It began as a bassline that Dave had composed and some guitar licks that George had put together.
These parts had been composed independently and were put together during a serendipitous moment of jamming.
Dave’s bassline became the verses and George’s guitar licks become the instrumental section.
Dave wrote the lyrics during the massive drive for lyrics that the band embarked upon one afternoon.
He also composed the vocal melody.
George created and sang the vocal harmony.
This is one of those rare songs where everything starts all at once.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/the-ug-brothers/cute-but-weird/lifetime
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cute-but-weird
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Lifetime

The Ug Brothers: Lifetime

Medicines (RMX) by & co

This is a remix of the Dark Company song Medicines, which you can hear here:
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/medicines

The challenge to the listener is to compare the two tracks to find out what elements of the sequencer mix are present in both versions!

Original lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Original music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Remix recorded, engineered and produced at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992.
Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1994 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Lost In Space/Explicit Music.

This track was crafted mostly by Jeff and was subsequently remastered by George at Wud Records Studio One.

The remixing arm of the Dark Company project was named & co, and Drifting Stars is the album that features various remixes of assorted tunes.

& co have more of a dance flavour and lack guitars and vocals apart from samples.  Some parts are lifted from the original song and you may hear them if you listen carefully.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/drifting-stars/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rage-in-heaven
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/medicines
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

Drifting Stars

Medicines (RMX)

& co: Medicines (RMX)

Lookin' Bad (RMX) by & co

This is a remix of the Dark Company song Lookin' Bad, which you can hear here:
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/lookin-bad

The challenge to the listener is to compare the two tracks to find out what elements of the sequencer mix are present in both versions!

Original lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Original music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Remix recorded, engineered and produced at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992.
Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1994 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Lost In Space/Explicit Music.

This track was crafted mostly by Jeff and was subsequently remastered by George at Wud Records Studio One.

The remixing arm of the Dark Company project was named & co, and Drifting Stars is the album that features various remixes of assorted tunes.

& co have more of a dance flavour and lack guitars and vocals apart from samples.  Some parts are lifted from the original song and you may hear them if you listen carefully.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/drifting-stars/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rage-in-heaven
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/lookin-bad
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

Lookin' Bad (RMX)

& co: Lookin' Bad (RMX)

Yearning (Original mix) [Mastered]

An old iMS-20 tune remixed in Gadget using new modules. This is the first track I ever made both with KORG software and with iPad. A very boring day driving taxi turned to be very productive. Now I remixed the track using Gadget and its new modules.
JEH 28.3.2017

Dragonfly #KORG #Gadget remix

https://open.spotify.com/album/6ceRcLnjYx4jmBznNI7Xle

Visa Från Utanmyra

Pay Dirt — IPG1 & Paploviante 2017
Music Composer Paploviante
Vocals and Lyrics IPG1 - Ian Greaves
@ipg1
Music: Paploviante Bass - Sax Jack Stafford
Mix: Paploviante / Logic Pro X

Pay Dirt - IPG1 & Paploviante

Born by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Winter 2008-09.

* Born is in the key of E minor.
* It was first performed by Laughing Sun in 1985.
* There are many changes of tempo throughout, some subtle, some not.
* One of the changes that Jim introduced was replacing two of the B minors with G majors during the main ascending theme.
* The main ascending theme is ten bars long, four measures of 2.5 bars.
* This version has slightly mangled audio to start on the right hand side but it sorts itself out before long when the beats kick in.
* Pok plays Marsha, a pale gold 1985 Ibanez Roadstar II.

BORN
Can she see?
Will she be?
Saintly lady by the water
Faintly fiery fisher’s daughter

And you see nothing is as it is
Nothing is as it ought to be
And you see it’s back to where we began
Back so far you’re out in front again…

It’s time.

Born – you were meant to be
Born – into the family
Born – we were meant to be
Born – into the family

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Depot X, Exeter, 12th December 2008.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2018.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released August 23, 2018
Original release date: 15th January 2009

Copyright © 2018 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1985 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/born
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Live In Session Winter 2008-09

Born

Alchemeon: Born

Good Times by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.

Good Times was one of the earliest Bastard Sons of Dennis songs, first coming to light in their sand dune sessions on Exmouth beach in the summer of 1994. Sometimes was first performed live by the duo at The Cavern in Exeter that same summer. It also featured in their spontaneous one-off reunion in 1998.

Mr Lijkkes composed this song shortly after hitch hiking and being given a lift by a rather odd man who told him a very strange tale about his life.

Good Times is in the key of G and has some rather interesting temporal anomalies buried within. They sound very natural so you may not hear them immediately.

With its fun acoustic funk jam to start off, this track was sometimes used as a set opener in the duo's longer performances.

GOOD TIMES
This has gotta be the good times
No more bad
No more in between for a while
I wanna get down to it
Don't wanna be the spoke in your wheel if I can help it

Well excuse while I tell you what I saw the other day
I met a man with a life to hide and bridges burnt behind him
He had a fleeting glimpse, a breath of freshness passed him
Like he didn't have a chance to catch it when it settled upon his lip
I don't suppose so

This has gotta be the good times
No more bad
No more in between for a while
I wanna get down on it
Don't wanna be a spoke in your wheel if I can help it

Well I came across your garden when your flower was unfurling
May I relieve you of the burden of your innocence
Your aura's tantalising, your scent is mesmerising
When I'm near you I have to slip into a realm of fantasy

This has gotta be the good times
No more bad
No more in between for a while
I wanna get down to it
I don't wanna be the spoke in your wheel if I can help it

Well excuse me while I ask you what's your name and where you've been
Cos you look so damn familiar like a painting, a rocket
A reflection of my sin

(Take it down)

I see a hint of roses smiling on your face
I don't mean to make you catch your breath
I couldn't make you if I tried

I see a hint of roses smiling on your face
I don't mean to make you catch your breath
I couldn't make you if I tried

And I came across your garden where the walls were gently fading
And the blossom was exhiilerating as it spoke to me
My universe expanded and my questions became answers
As I laid upon the earth and it accepted me

And this has gotta be the good times
No more bad
No more in between for a while
I wanna get down on it
Don't wanna be the spoke in your wheel if I can help it

This has gotta be the good times
No more bad
No more in between for a while
I wanna get down on it
Don't wanna be a smoke in your wheel if I can help it

This has gotta be the good times
No more bad
No more in between for a while
I wanna get down to it
Don't wanna be the spoke in your wheel if I can help it

This has gotta be the good times
No more bad
No more in between for a while
I wanna get down on ya
I'd like to be the seat upon your bike if you would let me

Music and lyrics by A. Richardson.
This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis. 

Performers:
Acoustic guitar, lead vocal: Q. Wim Lijkkes 
Acoustic guitar, backing vocal: Yuri Nation 

Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One 2017. 

Copyright © Wud Records 2017. 
Copyright ℗ Explicit Music 1993.

Cherry Smoke Empire

Good Times

The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Good Times

The Furniture (part 1: overture) by The Bastard Sons of Dennis, from their album Cherry Smoke Empire.

The Furniture (Los Muebles) is a traditional northern Spanish sea shanty from the Asturias region.

It tells a tale of how a dysfunctional family of linguistically challenged fishermen lost and then found some furniture following a flood, and the consequences.

Linguistically challenged means, in this case, they were not terribly bright and could not even speak their own language very well.

The Spanish version has been loosely translated into English by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.

From an idea by Daniel Richardson.

This song and its anomalies of translation make a great teaching aid, if one happens to have students learning English or Spanish.

THE FURNITURE (PART 1: OVERTURE)
Donde esta mis muebles de los hermanos? 
Donde esta mis muebles de los hermanos? 
Se pierden, se pierden 

Where is the furniture of my brother? 
Where is the furniture of my brother? 
It is lost, it is lost. 

Donde la guaderropa, la tabla? 
Donde la silla, es banera? 
Donde la gabineta, la oficina 
Se pierden, se pierden 
Los incontrareos 

Where is the wardrobe, the table? 
Where is the chair, the bathtub? 
Where are the cabinet and the bureau? 
They are lost, they are lost. 
We will find them! 

Creo que esta perdido por siempre 
No! Los incontrareos 

But I believe they are lost forever! 
No! We will find them! 

Donde esta mis guaderropa de los hermanos? 
Donde esta mis guaderropa de los hermanos? 

Where is the wardrobe of my brother? 
Where is the wardrobe of my brother?

Music and lyrics: A. Richardson/G. Davies

Rhythm guitar and Spanish voices: Q.Wim Lijkkes. 
Lead guitar and English voices: Yuri Nation.

Originally released November 10, 2012.
Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered at Wud Records Studio One 2012.

Copyright © 2012 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2012 Explicit Music.

The full length version of The Furniture/Los Muebles is here:
https://soundcloud.com/wud-records/the-bastard-sons-of-dennis-the-furniture-los-muebles
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-furniture-los-muebles

The Furniture (part 1: overture)

The Bastard Sons of Dennis: The Furniture (part 1: overture)

Born Of Stars by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Winter 2008-09.

The audio file for this song was plagued with hundreds, maybe thousands, of corrupted waves. These ranged in sound from a very big click at the small end of the scale, to something akin to trousers being ripped when bending over in a Carry On movie at the large end of the scale.

The audio file is now massively better than it was. A few blemishes and some sounds not unlike that of a scratchy old vinyl record still exist in places.

Repairing the damaged audio file for this song was an incredibly time-consuming and tedious task. It required massive amounts of the wave forms to be redrawn by hand in tiny, tiny detail.

The first time we attempted to repair it, the work was almost finished when the main hard drive on the mastering machine lost the will to live and mangled itself beyond all recognition. We had to buy a new one and completely reinstall the entire system.

All the repair work already done to Born of Stars was therefore utterly destroyed. It had to be done again from the start. Fortunately, as we are reasonably diligent with regard to backing up our work, no other files were lost.

This is why the Winter version of Born of Stars appeared two years after the rest of the album was released!

* Born of Stars is a highly rifftastic space rock song in the key of E.
* Several sections are deliberately left quite loose to allow for improvisation.
* The lyrics also tend to vary from one version to another.
* Born of Stars was performed by the Spacegoats, including in their brief “Electric Elves” manifestation. 

BORN OF STARS
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

We are seeds of time
We are seeds of time
You are a seed of time
We are seeds of time

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Create a brighter future
Create a brighter future
We are a brighter future
Create a brighter future

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Earth
Planet Earth
Planet Earth
Our planet
Terra Firma
Has made a conscious decision
A conscious, conscious decision
To become whole
To become one.

Entombed, cocooned
In concrete, metal,  plastic, tarmac
Effluence of all kinds
Chemicals, radiation and  nuclear waste

Yet she shall break free
She shall break free from this prison
Free from these chains

Planet Earth is undergoing
An evolutionary, interpersonal, galactical
REBIRTH!!!

We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars
We are born of stars

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya

We are seeds of time
We are seeds of time
You are a seed of time
We are seeds of… time!

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Create a brighter future
Create a brighter future
You are a brighter future
Create a brighter future

Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya maitraya
Om nam maya 
Gaia

Words and music by Simon Miller/Pete Phoenix/Chrissie Ortner.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Depot X, Exeter, 17th December 2008.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released 27th July 2020
Original release date: 15th January 2009

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1996 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/born-of-stars
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Born Of Stars

Alchemeon: Born Of Stars

Finale by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

* Finale is a song in the key of E.
* It would have been the final encore of an Alchemeon live show.
* Finale was originally performed as the closing track for the play Chameleon, which Pok wrote in the mid 1980s.
* A version of this song is in the works for Pok’s growing Anthology album.
* Finale was also performed live by the Spacegoats.

FINALE
When we were young
We saw the faces
And friends from the stars
Built the earthworks with us
And energy ran through
The earth’s sacred surface
Messages ran from star to star
Aaaah

All you can see
All you can be
All that is now
All that’s to come
And all that means something
All that’s inside
All that you covet
All that you hide
Aaaah
Aaaaah

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 6th April 2009. 
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2018.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2018 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1985 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/finale
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Live In Session Spring 2009

Finale

Alchemeon: Finale

The Freaks (Shall Inherit The Earth) by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth) is a glorious rock n roll anthem and call to action in the key of G major. It was performed by the Spacegoats before Alchemeon started playing it. The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth) would have been the final song in an Alchemeon set, with Orb and Finale as encores.

During this rendition one of Jim's keyboards started to misbehave. It was either too quiet or too loud and harsh despite his numerous and ongoing fiddlings and twiddlings. At 3:29 he becomes a bit frustrated and gives it a good bash.

THE FREAKS (SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH)
How many jacks are kept in their boxes?
How many dreams are trodden underfoot?
Could it be in you or it could be in me
The fate of all nations or a colour TV

Look down any road see a million faces
Scream back their pain from a sheer concrete wall
There’s a million products made just to fill that hole
But you never never, can never fill it at all

It’s a cry from the depths of a pin-stripe suit
And whose voice dares not to conform
Why is it just those who can see through the see through?
They’re the misfits who break out from the norm

The Freaks! The Freaks!
The Freaks shall inherit the Earth
The Freaks! The Geeks!
Who speak shall inherit the Earth

Should we obey what the government say?
Is it wrong not to tag along?
The question is no question at all
But what we do with our backs to the wall

What is a freak? I think we’ll see
When what is established gets washed away
Those who cling to it will not survive if
Destiny’s child awakes a new day

Just look around you see those bulldozers working
Ripping up the land for fool’s gold again
It’s getting worse, can’t go on forever
And who’s gonna be here when these dinosaurs fall?

Ok. What’s it going to be if it is as we’ve hear?
Who’s gonna emerge with these worlds have submerged?
When the profit is made from the damage is done
You wanna cling to the wreckage or go with the change?

CHANGE!!!!!

Now there’s some pretty megaton forces
Stirring up hate and making a war
Who can get poison and spit out the bullet?
Who are these freaks, do you think that one’s you?

The Freaks! The Freaks!
The Freaks shall inherit the Earth
The Freaks! The Geeks!
Who speak shall inherit the Earth

The Freaks! The Freaks!
The Freaks shall inherit the Earth
The Freaks! The Geeks!
Who speak shall inherit the ….. Earth!!!!

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 23rd February 2009.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1992 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/the-freaks-shall-inherit-the-earth
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth)

Alchemeon: The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth)

The Centre of the Cyclone by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

* The Centre of the Cyclone is more-or-less in the key of A major.
* The rhythm and noises at the start and then in the instrumental section are in the key of E.
* There is a classic chord progression in the first verses, which is A - Em - G - Bm - D.
* This mutates into C - G - D - Am - Em - G.
* The final chord of the whole song is an Asus4, which leaves a giant tantalising question mark dangling in the air.
* The Centre of the Cyclone has several sections, each with a different tempo and texture.
* It was first performed live in 1985 by Laughing Sun in the drama studio at Exeter College during a free lunchtime concert given for the students.
* Jim used his amazing understanding of arrangement to take this wonderful song and make it longer and more elegant with the addition of a guitar solo before the vocals start.
* It seems more and more extraordinary that Pok wrote the lyrics for this when he was only 19.

THE CENTRE OF THE CYCLONE
In forlorn castles too brief for living
We rose to catch the sun but were defeated
Just around the corner beyond the eyes
Beyond the skies we set ourselves as real
Like spaceships casting cosmic lines
Left behind with stars strewn from our astral selves
And planets in our eyes

You walk along the road of life
Too high to see the mountain you are climbing
Casting seeds and scrolls from our outstretched hands
The forgiven forget of the gift
And it’s too late, the ladder stretches up and down
And where do you stand in perspective to it all?

Can you imagine a place
A space where you have not been before
But which is not new to you?
A place you can recall softly
Push through bad dreams
Make it real, remember
Complications contradict but reality sticks
And unbounded has its realms
In everything you see

Yes, what do you see?
Push through the dark vales to the sea
Cast your cosmic line wherever it may fall
Maybe you will find some higher guidance there
Or maybe you will find a place where you may truly rest
Maybe you will find some friends who love you the best

Listen
Listen
Listen

The tides of swirling memories
Are nearly gone but forgotten
Would you choose to beg or lose
The axis which you hold onto
Thirteen is the number, twelve it is the rite
Thirteen red eyed ravens
Outside the house til night

Outward, outward on out
Cast light, cast light about
Outward, outward on out
Look out, which way is far out?

Petty wages are falling like leaves
Calling the master to apprenticeship again
Will he recall the time, the chimes of freedom
Blowing through his keyhole
Step down from your pedestal and mingle once again
With the crowds that you shunned as a youth

At the centre of the cyclone
Where all our thoughts are real
You’re cacooned in your mental egg
Imprisoned inside your head

When you look out the bars you’ve made
Can you maybe follow a little way
To see there are no more shackles to pass
Yet more fresh air, green fields and grass

And we are like the butterfly
Cannot take off, our wings aren’t dry
But soon if we shall heed the guides
The caterpillar metamorphosise

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 22nd February 2009.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1984 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/the-centre-of-the-cyclone
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

The Centre of the Cyclone

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