1.
this is? (0.51)
2. bob kolody part 2 (5.25)
3. everything else is nothing (7.39)
4. jackie says (5.42)
5. comfortflows/is this? (9.28)
6. green grass of tunnel (7.15)
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This
CD had been omitted from the site for a long time because
of its secretive nature. The 'lost' recording, if you
will. Well, it wasn't lost, exactly. This CD was the
first time I'd made a CD entirely for Tina, and many
hours of painstaking effort went into the choice of
songs, recording, and more specifically the fucking
cover, which took ages because as well as the front
and back covers I made an insert with more pictures
and inlay for the CD tray itself, all printed on shiny
paper and glued together by hand in a long session
which felt like a nightmare episode of Art Attack.
You can see the front cover here
and the back cover (the only one of the pics on the
CD which I shot myself) over here.
The pictures all come from myself and Tina's romantic
jaunt to Blackpool in November 2002, that front cover
is a field passing us by as we travelled there by coach.
It has sheep and everything.
So, the songs themselves were all reworkings of enough
rope songs, except for two covers. Opener 'this is?'
is a short reprise of 'is this?', 'bob kolody part
2' is self-explanatory, and 'everything else is nothing'
is an extended version of that song from the album
of the same name, which contains tiny elements of 'territory'.
The one mp3 I decided to share is a long version of
'comfortflows' spliced with 'is this?', two early enough
rope songs which are in the same key. Haha! It has
a couple of original bits in, too, and I like it a
lot. The two covers were chosen for Tina because I
know she likes both bands. 'jackie says' is a song
by Japanese post-rockers Mono
which I sort of didn't really do justice to, while
'green grass of tunnel' by Icelandic tronica folks
Múm
is one of Tina's favourite songs, reimagined here as
a dark 7-minute guitar dirge instead of the cheery,
fairy-voiced original.
I made the CD as a Christmas '02 present for Tina,
and we exchanged gifts on a beautiful night in the
Croatian seaside town of Opatija on the 27th of December
that year. So, the reason it was left of here was because
it was intended as a personal gesture. For that reason,
it's not available for anyone else and will remain
in its limited edition of two copies. Oh how rare!
But, for the sake of completeness and posterity, I
decided it needed a page here, and I figured I could
throw you, the general public, one mp3 from it. :)
Anyway, all this should tell you, if you don't know
already, how much I love Tina and how important she
is to everything here. Not just in terms of designing
the site, but for inspiring some of the music, being
the only person in the world dedicated enough to listen
to all of it, and in more general terms, for making
me happy enough to bother doing this. As I write this,
we've been together over 2 years, and we'll still be
together in 50 years when my teeth are falling out
and I'm recording wheezing 12-bar blues songs for my
150th solo album and playing harmonica through the
gaps in my false teeth. She's more important to enough
rope than I am, and I'm going to stop typing this and
go and kiss her right now. :) |
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