Music

Something to keep in mind

2016/11/04 — Leave a comment

In 1987, The Style Council released their third studio album, The Cost of Loving.

The album’s fourth song, ‘Fairy Tales’, is sung using feminine pronouns—clearly referring to Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister of the UK—but the first verse of the lyrics is printed as follows:

The giant towers over all
But from close distance he don’t seem that big at all
In fact he’s no more than you or I
Though we give him far more power than his size

(4 November 2016)

The corners of My Room (2016 remaster) (music)

2016/09/14 — Leave a comment

I have had this piece up on SoundCloud for a while, but thought I should make it available for download. It is available on a ‘pay what you want’ basis.

(14 September 2016)

Update: Last month, I discovered that I still had the image file of the DVD edition of the unreleased album I constructed this collage from. Naturally, I can’t do anything with it, since I own neither the music nor the visuals (I never knew the name of the video artist, only that he had signed a contract that effectively rendered his visual contributions off limits), but it has been good to hear (and see) the album again.

(24 April 2017)

The Corners of My Room

2016/07/01 — Leave a comment

https://soundcloud.com/kevinjoconner/my-room-vs-tinty-music-the-corners-of-my-room

This is a collage I put together in November 2001 from an album a friend of mine recorded in the early 1990s, then spent years tinkering with. In part, the collage came about because I was one of the folks participating in the tinkering. Details on the SoundCloud page.

(1 July 2016)

Super Tuesday

2016/03/02 — 2 Comments

Here’s something I have not done for a while: put out new music.

Recorded last night and this morning, and just uploaded to SoundCloud and Bandcamp.

If you don’t feel like going to the Bandcamp page, here’s the accompanying text:

Two turntables and a microphone has been replaced by two thumbs and an iPhone…

A brand-new piece recorded using the pre-Allihoopa version of Propellerhead Figure while watching the Super Tuesday returns on TV. Donald J. Drumpf and the DTs, with support acts Freddie Cruz and Mark-o RubiNO, suggest that the country is going to hell, and apparently are determined to hasten its demise.

In the face of all this, what else can you do alone in your room at night but make a lot of noise to drive those demons out?

As the late Hunter S. Thompson once put it, when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro…

(2 March 2016)