Time...Walking...Memories...Friendships...Literature...SEX (both collective and solitary)...and the Works of: ......................................................................................................................
Bert Jansch, Victor Jara, Rahid Behbudov, Tim Buckley, Sara Vaughn, Tom Waits, Caetano Veloso, Vashti Bunyan, Curtis Mayfield, Nina Simone, Tim Hardin, Nick drake, Silvio Rodriguez, Panda Bear,Daniel Johnston, Scott Walker, Anthony, Nico, Leonard Cohen, M.Ward, Leona Neass and lots and LOTS of other girlie stuff, Magic Realism, Wong Kar-wai, Alamadovar, Proust, Persian food, Glimour Girls, One of my good friend's bad breakup (it was very nasty), Cameron de la Isla, Manzanita, Fennez, Jao Gilberto, Arts & Crafts and MERGE roster, ICELAND, the fucking Dominant Ideology, Old pornos that were shot on film (Taboo is a good one), Two lazy cats that I really hate but can't get rid of (one of them is named Mamushka), and springtime is usually very good to me, winter is not.
Sounds Like
when you miss a step on your way down a flight of stairs but right before you fall face down, you gain balance and catch your self and pause for a second thinking "poufff...That was close". It's like that all the time.
I did some travelling last year and ended up in Spain for a year... I met so many people that changed my life in more ways than one, most of these songs are about them. The versions here are all first time 'sketches' that I recorded carelessly as demos so that I wouldn't forget the songs and their melodies. At the time I promised myself that I would go back and finish these songs and get them recorded porperly and that hasn't happened yet.....It was only after I came back to canada that I listened to these again after some time and realized that there is a strange quality to all these basic recordings; the sound is shit, the words are half improvised, I fuck up more than once, yet...in spite of all their flaws I have grown to enjoy them because of their sentimental value and what they remind me of, the places I went, the people I saw and loved.....so I hope that you forgive my indulgence and overlook the poor quality. ................................................................................................................
The songs were all composed and played on a thin-neck classical guitar (the small ones that they make for 10 year olds). They were all recorded on my portable music "studio" which was an iTalk mounted on top of my iPod :) Most of these were recorded in various waiting terminals and bus stops around the world, from San Sebastian to London, Tehran, Reykjavic.
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wassup brother, long time man, how's life treating you in UK??? I moved to waterloo and i'm doing MBA, things are tough and busy for me but will be finished in another 10 months, so keep it up and let me know how you are... add me on your msn so we can talk sometime mazi_a@hotmail.com
Great to hear from you mate! And thanks for listening too....I have a lot of fun recording when I just sit down and record without worrying about mistakes or perfection. I use a zoom h4 recorder and it has been very good to me so far - a nice little 4 track recorder with decent mics and built-in effects. I haven't used it all that much to be honest. Your guitar playing still awes me. Have you been writing/playing/performing? It would be great to see you again soon but distance can do the same for friends as it does for lovers: make the heart grow fonder. with love! Michael
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loving shaking an empty fist!!!!!!!! niiice! im doin a music dj party spoken word thing Friday 20th at the cobden club... kensal road.come down and throw some shapes ... free entry before 9 maybe you could do a coupla chewns? give us a bell
thanks v much dood was a fun nite great to have you down... nex time i look after the nite will let you kno 4shuur thnk those recordings were done on logic maybe the mic was sensitive or somethink
Hello! Thanks for the kind words! We have a lot of (in my book) great new tunes to bring to the studio soon! Three records in three years has been our ambition for a while and I hope we'll make it! // Bobby
