springboard by katharine eastman
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drifty woozy tantric (?) keys - possibly very beautiful - certainly one of my favourite things so far. As ever, it takes a few minutes to "get into the zone" and for your heart to prove to your head that it isn't just the same one-second looping over and over forever.
no it doesn't "progress" much does it - but this one would please Pascal, being happy to just sit still and not fall for the temptation of the next thing and the thing after
(((LATER - probably the best album I've made this year. As someone who has noticed that the better my music gets the less popular I get (ha! - "popular" !!), I think this album will firm up my position as the only member of the No Audience Underground who genuinely has no audience. And being the sort of person I am, that's an achievement that rather pleases me)))
I am often (never) asked Why are your tracks/ albums so long? - and my reply is always (never) that they are all exactly as long as you want them to be - five minutes long or zero seconds long or lasting all week. I don't plonk these things down like your mum with a childhood meal and tell you yr not leaving the table/computer till you've eaten every mouthful - this isn't a set meal, this isn't a book, it is a buffet, it is music, and maybe three seconds of my music or one tiny cube of tasteless Cheddar/pineapple is all you want - that's fine - and if you love it lots, as I think I do this one, then I might put it on repeat in my head all the way back to Kent. I couldn't eat chips for 59 minutes, but that doesn't mean I don't love chips - oh lordy me no. Music should never have a finishing-line, it isn't a marathon. All tracks are as long as you want them to be. Joni's Jericho says about 3 minutes on the sleeve but for me it has been 40-plus years long and still hasn't finished yet.
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I nipped back from my trip east for a night/this-morning, mainly to put my rubbish out, which hasn't been collected for several months now and is getting unpopular with the neighbours. And I couldn't sleep, so I did this track, and because I wasn't really trying very hard it's turned out really well - in a way that will sort of please people like me who wish the nice things would last forever and the horrid things wouldn't last at all - and this is one tiny nice thing that I've stretched out to within an atom of Bandcamp's 600MB limit.
It's a world that constantly changes yet never changes much at all - being so limited and loving these simple routines might feel like a dull limited routine life, but I find quite the opposite - these are great springboards to occasionally leap off and go very far indeed.
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(recorded last-night/this-morning, photo Thorney Island a couple of days ago).
