Lighterthief – My Dream Sea
Out of all the nine tracks I produced for Ape last year this is my personal favourite.
It’s got this strange dark undercurrent going on- with monks chanting and a lot of dissonance-some people find it quite hard to listen to but it seems absolutely perfect to me—balanced-but just teetering on the edge of disaster.
I played it to someone once in headphones and they said it felt like their head was being pulled apart!! Someone else described it in a blog as sounding like “making filthy love in a railway arch, whilst on acid, in 1940s New York”. Which of course I was thrilled by.
When it was in its early days as a bunch of unconnected noises put together by me and Andy, I played it to some other singers to see if they were interested in contributing to it- the reaction was “no- its shit!!”.- hahah – But Jen took these completely random bits of music and glued them into something completely different. From then on it just needed organizing and arranging. I spent months lovingly tweaking and moving it about in a dark obsessive manner.
The video came about as I was messing about watching old cartoons and simultaneously listening to music. I slowed down a Little Audrey cartoon from 1949 to half speed and it’s as if it was made for it- quite spooky really.
It’s on the Hard Listening EP which of course everyone should buy.
Canadian singer songwriter Veda Hille takes you on an audio tour of her mesmerising album ‘Return Of The Kildeer’. An intensely moving album, somewhere between her compatriot Jane Siberry and Laurie Anderson.
The last of the 3 exclusive podcasts in which Andy Partridge talks about the Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album. Andy talks about his favourite tracks on the album, his lyrics and the creative songwriting process. There is also a sneak preview into what the future holds.
