temple IV by Simon Aulman
A remixed blurrier extended version of Outdoor Temple I. This is nice.
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New plan !!!!! - thought I'd stick at doing just this kind of music for the next month. No more variety. Apologies to anyone who follows me because my stuff is an all-over-the-shop mess - but for the next month everything's going to sound consistent and safe - it's going to sound like this. Most musicians seem to just do the same thing over and over again. And I'm going to do this. I never previously wanted to be "most musicians" - or even ANY musician.
But somewhere along the sign-up-to-Bandcamp line I picked up the tag "experimental", and I do quite enjoy experimenting. One experiment I've never tried is to stop experimenting and just churn out the same thing over and over every time. So that's what I'll do for a while.
People don't much like prolific musicians. And they definitely don't like musicians who keep them guessing from one album to the next. They want to go into their favourite cafe and order their favourite meal and for everything to be as it always was and will be, year after year. I admit I'm often like that too.
When I went out to buy a new Joni album I wanted to hear stuff quite like the previous album, not, oooh, say some horrible slow noodly cod-jazz impersonation of Charles Mingus. Obviously now Mingus is my favourite Joni album.
I'm not as famous as Joni yet. But I do think that by sticking at just one type of music for a while it could be a way to get my Big Break at long last. Is an Emmy too much to hope for ? I'd even settle for a Brit. I look across at other prolific Bandcampers.
Wings Of An Angel churns em out faster than me, seeming to average about an album a day, and he's done around 600+ albums so far, most of them standard ambient, many of them superb, I'm a big fan of his style of ambient.
And his consistency of style has paid off - hundreds of downloads for each album, hundreds and thousands of followers and sky-high stats. I would genuinely be uncomfortable with that level of attention - one of the reasons I've always occasionally shot myself in the foot, whether with fanzines or with music, is to try to outrun something or someone .... not sure, I just have this occasional need to go down the scorched-earth burn-it-all-down-and-start-all-over-again route.
There is no thrill quite like starting from absolutely nothing. And "absolutely nothing" is pretty much where my stats are right now. Which is fine-fine. And I could pretend that I was/am just making music for myself. But if I was doing that then I wouldn't bother uploading any music to Bandcamp.
So though I don't have any of that yearning for fame or attention, there must be some tiny part of me somewhere that wouldn't mind an eleventh follower.
So this is a risk. I'm going to piss off the people who've stuck with me cos of the chaos here, and I'm now going to make a bid to catch the ear of one or two people who like musicians who churn out the same thing every time. And I've got a feeling I'm going to end up with the worst of both worlds - lose my present, and never gain any future - but that's the experiment.
(recorded in Southampton yesterday, photo = footpath from Deanhill Barn, East Dean, today)
