It's a sunny day and for some reason I'm out of my usual comfort zone of, well, sitting on a chair hitting buttons or strings. I'm out in the wild somewhere, in a fenced-off gravel basketball/five-a-side court surrounded by tree-covered valleys, streams and chirping birds. I'm wandering slowly, looking for a gap in the fence so I can hit the road, when out of my pocket comes an Alice-in-Wonderland-style pocket watch, which in the dream I understand is also a phone, although it's not indicated by the physical characteristics. Anyhow, the phone/watch thing hits the gravel and just slides, like the gravel has no friction at all and the phone/watch is being carried by some unseen force. On and on it slides, and I don't seem to be getting any closer. I need that thing. I'm not sure why, but I need it. I never catch it. And then I wake up.

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(see the front cover here and the inside here)

This is the third, and (logic must dictate) final part of the 3" CD trilogy. I had a blast making these...always something appealing about setting up a concept and making it through to the end. This goes for a different kind of ambient drone to the second part, one cooked up in a fairly ad-hoc way using the Marshall EH-1 Echohead pedal which Santa slapped into my fat hands. It kicks off with a kind of tumbling thing recorded live through the pedal, which repeats things back so you can get a jam going. The bulk of the track though is built on a backwards-looping effect which may or may not disappear up its own ambience. It's kind of, er, liquid. There's a chord or two thrown in for structure so it's not totally adrift. But it almost is.

The last fifteen minutes or so of this was all done live, right after I did the long-ass live version which you can find just a click away. That's something I never got to do much before, really just lock in and jam something into a big mess. There's a point near the end where I switched from a guitar to a mic and just mumbled and hummed some shit and fed some Buddha Machine loops in, which sounds maybe a little dark. But nothing wrong with that, right? Right.