Cuts by paulfcook
Over the years I have collected bits of audio; sometimes as part of a field recording and sometimes from old vinyl. I'd keep them in a folder and promise myself I'd do something with them one day.
That happened for the first time when I put together the track 'Blues Man' in 2018. It was built from bits of a recording I made of the self-confessed 'blues man' who appeared on a train I was on that hadn't left London Bridge station yet. That was selected as a Fresh Fave on the excellent peer review site and music resource FreshOnTheNet set up by Tom Robinson; who also played it on his Saturday night show.
I then cut up a drunken night in my college bar, recorded on a professional Sony Walkman, from the 1980s on 'Warm Apple Cider', put a spam email put through a text-to-voice programme on 'Attention! Attention!', collaborated with the exceptional writer and contributor to 'Thought For The Day', Rhidian Brook during lock-down on 'Soap, Lemons, Paracetamol', and used the wonderful voice of James Dodding on 'St. George', taken from the BBC's ‘Movement, Mime And Music: 2 - Mimes To Music’ LP from 1970.
Most recently Alvin Stardust came to me in a dream and asked me to use his COI Green Cross Code ad, so I created 'Tiny Minds' (okay, so he didn't come to me in a dream, but I saw the clip and heard something in the inflection of his voice that made me think it could be used in a track). 'No Musical Talent' came from a scratchy vinyl 7" which was uncovered when I was clearing my uncle's house after he died.
These tracks have all floated around on my profile as one-offs but making 'Tiny Minds' and 'No Musical Talent' made me think that all these tracks were cut-up siblings so I decided to bring them into this collection.
If you like these then you might also want to check out the tribute to my mother 'Mater Gloria' which was made using recordings of the bells in the village where she lived (and died), 'Hehje' which layers sounds over a recording I made in the underground gallery 'Cisterne' in Copenhagen, and the ambient album 'Floating Caves'.
Tracklist
| 1. | No Musical Talent | 2:59 |
| 2. | Blues Man | 3:10 |
| 3. | St. George | 3:28 |
| 4. | Tiny Minds | 2:31 |
| 5. | Warm Apple Cider | 3:11 |
| 6. | Panacea (Rhidian Brook & paulfcook) - Soap, Lemons, Paracetamol | 4:01 |
| 7. | Lightvessel Automatic | 3:28 |
| 8. | Attention! Attention! | 3:47 |
Credits
Guitar, keyboards, Omnichord, melodica, percussion: paulfcook
Spoken word passages on Soap, Lemons, Paracetamol: Rhidian Brook
Vocals on Lightvessel Automatic: Michael Crowther
License
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paulfcook writes, produces & remixes using acoustic and electronic instruments & field recordings. He is a member of the London/Liverpool group Skylon (skylonband.bandcamp.com).
He has been played on Tom Robinson's 6Music show, Mixtape, & Elizabeth Alker's Radio 3 show Unclassified, as well as Exile FM's Monday Night Ride Out & Trust The Doc radio shows.
Paul writes about music for Joyzine.org