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the venetian snares vs. elderly sex offender fight
dream (21.10)
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the artwork here!
This cover was mainly designed by Tina, although I
did a bit of layout and text because she was busy.
Mp3 at the bottom.
This is possibly the first in a series of cute little
3" CD EPs. In mid-February I was looking for ideas
for stuff to do for Tina's birthday. At the time my
brother's band PTA had a huge stack of 3" CDs
downstairs which they were burning and distributing
as samples, and I hit on the idea of recording such
a CD for Tina and doing it in a cute little package.
That CD was a 5-song EP of covers of contrmporary pop
songs under the MFO umbrella, but it inspired me to
do an Enough Rope EP. It's been about two years since
I did an EP, I was and still am in love with the album
format, especially since the primary use for my music
is to soundtrack my own journeys to and from work.
My first idea was to do an extended version of 'Broken
Song' from the album I'd done a week or two earlier,
but somehow I ended up doing this bit of sprawling,
detuned improv.
I'd decided it was gonna just be a one-track EP, and
this song is mostly improvised. I'd put down a track,
play it back and then record the next line over it.
Very little was dropped or took more than one take,
so it ended up with a nice loose sound and lots of
rough edges instead of nicely honed melodies. Given
that though, it's pretty accessible, with the exception
perhaps of the first 3 minutes which has a two-string
riff with one string being pulled in and out of tune
to create a sense of unease. After that it's mostly
a fairly dreamy journey through another 18 minutes
of droning and reasonably experimental fun. So there!
I did realise retrospectively that the title promises
rather more than it can ever hope to deliver, and for
that I'm sorry. No elements of Canadian IDM mentalist
Venetian Snares' music are contained herein. Rather,
the title comes from a strange dream I had where my
retired next-door neighbour Harry (who died last year)
was revealed to have a secret past as a molester of
young girls. Armed with this knowledge (it wasn't established
in the dream whether the story was true or false),
a gang of neighbours set about beating the shit out
of him, one of whom was understood in the dream to
be Aaron Funk aka Venetian Snares. I think other musicians
were involved. But not Enough Rope of course...we were
horrified. |
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