longlyme belts by Simon Aulman

Yes another photo of a horse-trough. But the music is a step forward for me - my first ever use of the phaser. I've never known what to do with it - it just seems to make the stupidest noise ever. So I've ignored it for years/decades. Today I decided to use it (just in the first track) but to almost drown it out.

And I must admit I do love the result. It might be a just-me thing - and even I need a few minutes of it to get into its zone. No matter - phaser is now something I can add to my musical arsenal alongside echo and reverb. So I'm continuing to learn/"grow". At this rate, by the time I am ten thousand years old I'll be a proper musician just like all the others on Bandcamp who actually get those little pictures beneath their album "covers" - it's all about finding the same key that everyone else has, to unlock the secret door and to be accepted at last, to fit in and be popular - oh wouldn't that be sooo wonderful.

Except that after yesterday, when I had (heard) some of the most boring conversations (monologues) with (from) "friends", I remembered that fitting-in is a bit boring - so this morning I went to floor 4 of John Lewis and spoke to a guy called John about laptops - I told him upfront that I wasn't going to buy one today, but I wanted to pick his brain - he was very friendly, as strangers always are - soooooo much nicer than friends, who always annoy us after a while.

This laptop is about ten years old and everything takes forever. So one day soon, if it doesn't get too cold and if the sun keeps shining and heating up the house and I can keep the gas switched off, then I shall buy a new laptop and everything that now takes minutes (echo, reverb, phaser) will only take seconds, and instead of only releasing three or four albums per week I'll be able to release 3 or 4 albums per day, delightful, and that should bring the final success of my musical career forward by several hundred years

Recorded today, photo Hampshire this week