wire by katharine eastman
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Earthier and less polished than my more recent albums, though it was made in the same lofi way as they were, and it has its good points, just not as many.
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I think my previous album ("Society") was the best thing thing I've ever done, I really do. However it only attracted two downloads, so yet again I find myself out of kilter with the human race. I can look at this dismal level of non-achievement in several ways - and it surely is some kind of special achievement that after 100+ albums I am only attracting two downloads per album - has any other musician in the history of Bandcamp ever been as unsuccessful as me ? - well that distinction is something to amuse the grandchildren with one day and we shall all laugh about it - some more heartily than others.
When I started I was getting zero downloads - so getting two downloads is an infinite-fold increase - hurrah. However, it's about a fifth what I was achieving a few weeks ago, so clearly things are on the downward slope. Never mind - I rose into the air, I enjoyed the heady view, and now I am coming down to land again - I don't think it'll be a crash-landing and I'm confident I'll survive the experience.
Today we went to Emsworth and then walked around Thorney Island, which was beautiful, especially the MOD section, where you have to press a button on that gate (pictured) and speak to a guard a million miles away who will let you through unless you look like a terrorist, and where not many people go and where it is left alone and consequently it's as alive with butterflies as our childhoods were.
And my girlfriend asked how my musical popularity is going, always expecting to hear that this time I have smashed though into the big time and been discovered, but I had to tell her that the explorers have turned back and I am more undiscovered than ever - almost. She said it was probably because the pandemic restrictions were coming to an end and that people were finding better things to do than listen to music. And yes, she's probably right. And that's a good thing.
Because music's ubiquity these last couple of decades thanks to the internet has made it seem less and less important - sometimes even to me - and I too have increasingly found "better" things to do, until in the end the only way it could mean anything to me was if I made it myself, and while it still does, I still will
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(recorded today, photo Thorney Island today by Vanessa Oliver)
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