{"id":3050,"date":"2023-03-27T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redhairedgoon.com\/?page_id=3050"},"modified":"2024-01-03T22:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T21:30:19","slug":"ep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redhairedgoon.com\/index.php\/music-past-and-present\/ep\/","title":{"rendered":"EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following four tracks were never meant to be a consistent body of work. They just happened to be the only four tracks that I completed post finishing the album project. Then I started to go into all sorts of directions, go out more, and I didn&#8217;t keep the focus on making music. See the demos page. I was just never good at working on parallel projects and also the going out took all of my energy, and once I had already proven my point (or so I thought) with music, there was less motivation for it. Anyway, these tracks I was very happy with, they are simpler than the albums one mostly, and the drum machine (for two of them) makes them a little tighter. I was under less pressure (own pressure that is), so I think the singing also comes out easier. In many ways, these are overall better than most of the album, as less laboured, and I could write about other things. No artwork attached or planned either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, here are the songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.Lia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/redhairedgoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/01-Lia.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.  Girl Sitting on a Beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/redhairedgoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/02-Girl-Sitting-On-The-Beach.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Unhelpful Friend<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/redhairedgoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/03-Unhelpful-Friend.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Twilight Dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/redhairedgoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/04-Twilight-Dream.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the waffle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having finished &#8216;the album&#8217;. I got an electroacoustic Ovation guitar, a rhythm box and also a new better keyboard (later, not used on these four songs actually). That proved to be a stumbling block. I still wanted to make music, but the keyboard was too complicated, and I didn&#8217;t quite have the patience for it because of all the other stuff in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ovation was good for strumming, the ER-1 I really only used for rhythm structure, not using its&nbsp;&nbsp;sound abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holidays in Crete 2003 (thanks to Thierry &#8211; RIP &#8211; encouraging me and giving me the name of a travel agency). So this is a bit of a small vignette of a short conversation with the barmaid at the resort (also proof I was getting better at going out of my shell again), called Lia and when I said I was from Paris she said she\u2019d love to go there. I mean the lyrics are exactly what happened I don\u2019t have to detail, her answers and my (interiorised) reaction were what they were and even the strike and grey Paris were exactly how it was when I flew back. To be honest, my best lyrics (and my best jokes in life) have always been rooted in what happened in reality, often by decontextualising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musically that was my first with the rhythm box so all is much more in place, and I kind of let the guitar play\u2026yeah, sure using an effect pedal to pretend to have a female voice is shit, but I didn&#8217;t have a guest star. I quite like the rhythm in that though, and like some of these songs unlike the album, I started to get more minimalistic on the guitar, which I think suits me best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Girl Sitting On A Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another &#8216;vignette&#8217; really, same year during my then usual trip to the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, one day I decided to drive down to the coast and ended up in St Cyprien. Just ambling around the beach. At some pont a girl came and just sat there on the beach trying to read her book, until she realised the wind made it impossible. It was a Saturday afternoon so I was just checking the football scores waiting for Arsenal updates. But sure I couldn&#8217;t check the score in the lyrics is meant both ways, so&#8230;\u2018what is this about?\u2019. This is about encounters that don\u2019t truly happen, possibility you don\u2019t or won&#8217;t explore for a reason or another, shyness, circumstances, timing (in my case maybe about so many lost opportunities to do so).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very happy with the chords on this one, first time I really used the Ovation, and I also think my singing was improving and I liked doing multiple backing vocal tracks (totally inspired by Robert Smith for that). The end\u00a0\u00a0doesn\u2019t quite work musically, feels a bit tagged on, but its singing was inspired by BSP\u2019s Carrion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Unhelpful Friend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very simple, music, I didn\u2019t want this one to  be overwrought. Think the keyboard sound may be inspired by White Town\u2019s Your Woman though not consciously. Another one where I am actually fairly happy with the singing. Lyrically again it was imagined rather than real. I mean it may have been about L, but really practically completely off in that sense. So nearly 20 years later I think it was prescient, because apart from some of the words, it could practically have been about another person from 10 years later. Meaning I might have had an inkling that I was setting myself for that sort of fucked-up relationship as real and not just imagined as it was in 2003, so again maybe that song said more about me&#8230;not in as good a way as I thought. But again, I like the music there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Twilight Dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First song I  ever wrote really (must have been about 1992 or 1993), I mean the music as all these years later I tried to reproduce it. It didn&#8217;t have lyrics originally, just its title. I remember Jean-No\u00ebl G told me he liked it, it was a bit \u2018spacey\u2019. Shame I never had the courage\/patience to redo the keyboard sound that annoys me, as a guitar part. Might be easier now with digital recorder if the timing is tight, to just copy\/paste that. Anyway, I still like it in spite of that, and I kept the original title that was in my head (of course clearly named because of This Twilight Garden from The Cure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lyrics are a bit about floating around and daydreaming, with a reminder that I must keep my feet on the ground. I tried to sing differently and in a way, the paradox of that conclusion voiced in the most ethereal\/disincarnated way is typical of me so I like that. Someone told me they liked it, even the keyboard, in a way it&#8217;s also one of my favourites because of its atmosphere, and its dreaminess. Which I think may  be why that person liked it, it&#8217;s still a dreamer&#8217;s song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following four tracks were never meant to be a consistent body of work. They just happened to be the only four tracks that I completed post finishing the album project. Then I started to go into all sorts of directions, go out more, and I didn&#8217;t keep the focus on making music. 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