SHEDBAND's SECOND ALBUM
Neptune's Horse
If possible please listen on headphones or a good stereo system
Track 1: Freda Derangel
Freda Derangel is best remembered for her unhealthy obsession with Nico of Velvet Underground fame not least her approach to the innermost workings of the harmonium used in recordings of Beyond the Frozen Borderline when this lamentable instrument turned out really to be a harmonically encoded annal of interstellar conflict between vast superhuman alien beings cosmic annals in fact Freda vowed to devote the rest of her life to the pursuit of utter normality which she achieved other than occasional visits to bizarre experimental music clubs in Canterbury UK her exquisite face now adorns certain stars
Track 2: Purple Shed Haze
In the late 1960s more powerful amplifiers, fuzz boxes, wah-wah pedals and feedback enabled electric guitarists to push their instruments to the limits in an an explosive blend of raw power. None achieved this more than Jimi Hendrix who pioneered a rich, thick and expressive guitar tone that was a mesmerizing blend of aggression, soulfulness and creativeness that resulted in a boundless sonic landscape His playing ranged from fiery, distorted riffs to soaring, melodic solos, fuelled by the combination of his skillful use of a Fender Stratocaster and array of effects pedals.
Every electric guitarist wants to play like Jimi Hendrix. We have long since transcended such aspirations, for which ample evidence is provided in this serene track.
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Track 3: Oh Tell Me Wise Zen Master
A Zen master hovers over a Japanese lake, serene and fateful amidst the cherry-blossom, or more probably neither. As temple and foliage entwine, Profundities, he seems to chant, are only superficialities you never thought of before.
The journey is long. Time stands still. But the positions adopted by the Zen Master are inpenetrable. Be patient and persistent.
Equal Opportunities Statement: despite the use of the term ‘master', the use of a male voice and the graphic depiction of a man, ShedBand would like to make it clear that in the past there have been many acclaimed female Zen Masters, as discussed here.
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Track 4: Improvisional
All Shedband’s tracks are intentionally experimental. They are never rehearsed or replayed again. In this improvisation (over pre-recorded drum and bass) the Aleatoric intertwines with the Cool to create a Jazz-Age shed experience of Cosmic Insignificance which is at once heart-warming and brain-soothing.
Track 5: Carrots
Here ‘Carrots’ refers not to the immanent (sic) vegetable but to the true transcendental ‘Carrotness’ of the Orders of Cosmic Vegetables whose karmic manifestations decrease in meaningfulness at each cyclic reoccurrence, not least when we attempt to attribute aesthetic value to their various and sundry linguistic manifestations.
I'll have 2 lbs worth please.
Track 6: Free Deranged
An incantation to free the cosmically cross-stricken angelic star-spirit of Freda Derangel from her frigid circling orbit in the outer reaches of the chill night sky. Hear the dialogue of the celestial energies as they negotiate yet another of her resurrections.
Any resemblance to a popular Thursday evening event in Canterbury is entirely coincedental.
Track 7: Noon Day Church Candle
Here ShedBand explores orphic trappings of first love, or rather the psychic eddies left behind from such perturbances after a century or two. Can pathos be gathered from such remnants? Or are the scattering auras no more than themselves, rootless?
Walrus, bunny rabbit dewdrop, mouldy leaf, unwilling ecstacy, mascara smudgeon, amongst others.
Track 8: Skating Into The Bewilderness
In the icy nevermore of New York Jazzland ghosts swirl in forgotten parks, dreaming of clothes once cherished, pointed lapels and heroic muffs once worn in defence against the arrows of futility, not hopelessly shot though.
Skate Hire: £3 a session, or bring your own.
Track 9: Temptations On The Beach
Sitting in a deckchair on the beach of the Vencie Lido, one or both of the Gustav twins grips the arms of the chair promising annihilation. Don't let go! What is the tempting heavenly vision? Not a celestial oyster, surely? No just a synthesised strawberry in an old-fashoined bathing suit.
Adagietto played in F Major.
Track 10: Bemildewment
Flower-bells of uncertain ecological provenance reminisce in the glinting dark about cosmic festivals that once took place on lands where they now grow. Indifferent to incursions from fairy-tale pine-forests, they tinkle on.
Feel free to change.
SHEDBAND's CHRISTMAS SINGLE 2004
Midnight Shopping
If possible please listen on headphones or a good stereo system
Christmas, as we all know, is a time of taking, particularly if you are a shopping centre, so this ancient druidical anagram song celebrates the ectoplasmic essence of the season of endurance, capitalist mayhem and the futility of commodity fetish, while truth yet again limps into the world and no one notices.
SAVE EVEN MORE WHEN YOU DON’T BUY ANYTHING
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