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NEW DEPRESSION SONGS
DATSON WORDS & MUSIC © Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes 2009 PRODUCER Geoffrey Datson Recorded at THE GREENROOM STUDIO 'Having spent a few decades listening to music, popular and otherwise, I know what sound I want to make and how to make it. There is much to be said for monody. An old punk at heart, these days I rage against the major scale and obvious harmonies and so, 2009 finds me knee deep in electrohillbilly.' Geoffrey Datson 'It's kind of country/folk, Guthrie/Dylan, with a bit of of Eno on the side, using handmade instruments and spare combinations of guitars, ukulele, cello, dulcimer, banjo, water whistle, recorder and some electronic augmentation; you know, electrohillbilly!' Annette Hughes LINER NOTES 1. Tesseract Bird 3:54 Was reading an article by Robert Hunter (lyricist for the Grateful Dead) who suggested that they wrote music for "modes of the tesseract". A tesseract is a 4 dimensional projection of a cube. Imagine a cube where the bottom back edge is pulled up through it to become the top front edge, rather as if it's unfolding through itself. My mother had given me a toy, one of those cards with a bird on one side & a cage on the other, when you spin the card fast, the bird is in the cage, presto! The bird noise is a ceramic water whistle. 2. Five Notes From Beauty 3:03 Thought it was interesting how the economy went into a tail spin as they turned the Hadron Collider on. Perhaps it would be wiser not to mess with the fabric of time! 3. Beautiful Daughter Part 1 1:14 This is the intro to a song that ends with the lyric "at dawn there'll be smoke on the water and a deep purple gash in the beautiful daughter. 4. Inverse Sun 0:47 I used to frequent a club in NY (late 80's) called Save the Robots, with very post apocalyptic decor. There was sand on the floor & red gloss furniture from recollection. It used to open at 2am and run till about midday, always strange to emerge into the work-a-day sidewalk. It was there one might meet the envoy's son. 5. MNBVXC 1:53 Instrumental 6. The Pied Plucker of Cooroy 2:14 Winter 08 a plague of rats in the studio and I'm repairing an Eko six string banjo type instrument. Wrote the song to celebrate the departure of the rats & the repaired instrument. The Eko reminded me of Chickenfoot Crawp passing this way in 1976. He played with a plucking thrashing action. Chickenfoot, AKA William Crawford, is one of the best songwriters of his generation & is out there, somewhere. 7. Zombot 1:21 All that money in your account by remote control they are taking it out. (Zombie Netbots) 8. Unptown Local 1:23 'A' train to Harlem 1987, three am, a homeless woman & I were the only passengers in the carriage. She was saying "nothing but rain drops inside". 9. Conceit of Light 6:14 Brixton Skate Park 1989 was a location of very cutting edge street fashion. The Hotel in Pomona Queensland this winter had a few fashion statements too! 10. Terminal Hermit 2:21 11. Sweet Matilda Waltz 3:14 From the fabulous "drifter " sessions, with Dave Bonnifoy on electro kit. 12. Eva Feral 2:40 My sister has a rental property in Brisbane. It must be one of the last outposts of the independent music scene. Under the house a tangle of busted drum kits, mic stands, torn band posters and beautiful grungy paintings.. 13. Fluddites 2:31 ... and under that house took me back to the Brisbane floods of '74. 14. String 3:27 Instrumental. I'd love to do this with an orchestra some day. 15. DF Recorder 3:24 Instumental. That'll be D & F played on a recorder. 16. Cellofane 1:35 Instrumental. Yes it's a cello and many guitars! |