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The Black And Red Notebook
This is a collection of songs I began working on in January 2004. The idea was to get under the surface of other people’s songs and to live and breathe them as if I’d written them myself. This, I hoped, would create a lot of new music.
Only one song from the original list made it on the record and that’s ‘Haunt Me’ by Jape. I tried songs by The Velvet Underground, Elizabeth Cotton, The Band, Kraftwerk, New Order, Joy Division, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Mississippi, John Hurt, Alton Ellis, George McRae, Yo la Tengo, Teenage Fanclub, Jackie Wilson, Ash, The Stooges, The La’s, the list goes on and on. I had all the songs in the world to choose from but it was so hard to find ones I could do something with. Anything that made it on had to be sufficiently different from the original to merit release but it also had to return some of the spirit of the original as I had perceived it.
Most of the songs on the record are ones I first got to know in my teens when music really meant the world to me. This wasn’t a conscious thing, it just worked out that way. Back then you saved up, chose carefully and squeezed everything you could out of every record you bought. There’s too much music in my life nowadays.
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