Tuesday Tune
Right, so having checked with the former band mates and got their permission, I have decided that every Tuesday, I shall post a blog about a song I did with my pals, Kyri Savva and Alex Winehouse. I was going to try and post these chronologically, well as much as I could, but I may miss out some of our more dubious back catalogue.
So how did this ‘band’ start? Well the reason I put ‘band’ in quote marks was because we weren’t really that. We never played a gig, we never played music at the same time, we just wrote songs and recorded them. Sure, in our optimistic dreams we hoped we would make it big, but I think we really did it as something to do. We were all quite creative in general, and this seemed a good way to have an outlet.
Now, I sing very very badly, but as Alex was the guitarist, and Kyri didn’t join till a bit later, I sang the first song. I sounded awful, but I don’t think the tune was that bad. We recorded it in Soundforge, and as both Alex and I were very much into the American Lo-fi bands like Grandaddy and Pavement, we were fine with the shonky production values.
So which song to post first? There are so many, but I have lumped for a very odd one. I have chosen a song called Sadako. When we started, we always said we wanted to do story songs, not just love songs, or break up songs. We wanted to have narratives, and at the time both Alex and I were very into Japanese Horror Cinema. The pinnacle of this was the Ringu trilogy by Hideo Nakata, which told the story of a young woman called Sadako, and a video tape she possessed. It sounds so stupid that this could be even remotely scary, but the whole thing is an exercise in terror, with an ever present sense of foreboding. We decided to tell the story of the film in a song, and it had us experimenting with feedback and layered vocals.
It was shortly after this song that Kyri joined and we had a decent vocalist and could do so much more due to his skill with a synthesiser and ability to create drum tracks. I will post earlier tracks than this, but I will also post tracks far later than this, but I think this is a good place to start as it shows the kind of thing Alex and I were doing pre-Kyri.
- Anand
