surf, skiffle & synaesthesia
by
the meluddites
(sonoplex-01)
release: tbc - Spring 2008
(24 tracks)
price: £6-95 (including p+p to UK) / $12 (plus international postage at cost)
THE MELUDDITES
JUKE BOX
The long lost Cabine du Loup tapes were recorded July 1992, France. In the sessions several mics were funnelled down into stereo, nothing was compressed or set up conventionally as HDA unburdened a lot of musical baggage in a big stone barn.
Late 2007, DJS managed to re-salvage the masters before re-processing and re-editing the material entirely in 2-track. Acoustic and electric jazz guitars are put back into the natural setting of tape hiss and birds and small sounds and seat squeaks and "a dodgy connection on a pickup that kept altering the tone in a curious way as I (HDA) was playing".
From a couple of old jazz guitars through a Fender amp and occasionally a volume pedal to keep things in check - other than various mechanicals and de-tunings - straight onto tape and oblivion; before the Dylophonic Workshop intervened.
For more tracks from the CD go to the meluddites on my space.