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Banging on things
Wednesday 12 April 2006
So I’ve been pondering alternative and found percussion, and scooping together some playlists full of inspirational material… everything from samba and African stuff to Peter Gabriel’s early solo stuff (when he got tired of the usual pop percussion and avoided using cymbals for two or three albums), the Fembots (alarm clocks! gunshots!) and Graeme Kirkland (that guy who used to busk with big paint buckets all over town).
Might try out some found percussion when we record “Catch-22”, our ostensible Latin number. And I’m planning to have another crack at the “song-a-day” experiment: write a piece every day of any length and style (usually they ended up being about a minute long); quality is less important than consistently making the effort.
There are a lot of songs with typewriters in them.