Well, I have started a first for me. I have actually started work on a very old track of mine with a mind to rework it for the album. Now there are significant down sides to doing this. The main one being that the only copy of the track I have to work with is on audio cassette and in stereo. This means that not only do I have clarity issues, but I also have very little I can actually change.
The other massive down side is the fact that the track is in my head, just as I made it, with potentially a lyric over the top of it. Now I have to break it up and do something completely different with it.
But that is in essence the challenge here, I like the feel of it and I think it just might fit with what I am doing at the moment. It’s also interesting to see how far you can go with just a stereo track to work with. I think it might take quite a while though.
Also means ‘beatmapping’ things as well, which is handy to practice but not always easy.
Crushingly complicated.
So this mood is fragile, and few songs pull that feeling off. King of the heap must be Elvis Costello’s excellent ‘All this useless beauty’. Very much a lament, crying out from the speakers with his unique lilt that both warms and chills at the same time.
‘What shall we do, what shall we do, with all this pointless beauty'?
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