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Carrillion · 1983 · Tape · GB · Bedroom Cassette Masters

<div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Simon Holland: Roland Juno 6, Roland CR-78, Casio VL-1, Stylophone, Piano.<br /> Jason King: Unbranded bass guitar on &#39;Sunny Lanes&#39;<br /> Recorded on a Tascam&nbsp; 244 with a WEM echo machine &amp; unbranded guitar amplifier<br /> Recorded and Produced by Simon Holland, November 1983.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Tracks:</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Foggy Polaroid&nbsp;&nbsp; 1:45&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> I was using an old cassette on the four track for this and in the background I could hear a muffled voice going backwards... this led to the concept for the track and I therefore did not add any more overdubs, leaving it as it is... the voice blurred beyond meaning, like a faded photograph.<br /> <br /> Sunny Lanes&nbsp;&nbsp; 2:07<br /> By the time of this album I was on the brink of going out with Rachel Laine and the title of this track is a play on her name. Unusually this track does not feature the Juno 6 until the last part.<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> Uncertain Prospect&nbsp;&nbsp; 2:48<br /> Ambient with a reversed Casio VL-1 rhythm again. The &#39;Uncertain Prospect&#39; was my soon-to-be girlfriend Rachel... would she, wouldn&#39;t she?<br /> <br /> Slowmo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 3:54<br /> Rather an unusually old fashioned sounding track for me - reminds me of a old dance hall. The organ-type sound is actually the Stylophone through Jase The Bass&#39;s amplifier with the built in reverb unit turned up full.<br /> <br /> Express&nbsp;&nbsp; 3:06<br /> Technically complicated this track has the CR-78&#39;s rhythm &#39;dry&#39; on one Portastudio channel while the same rhythm is fed through the broken WEM tape echo and then through Jason&#39;s amp with reverb on. I was flipping through the &#39;voices&#39; on the deluxe Stylophone as I played. The Juno&#39;s brassy sound implies some sort of victory.<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> Memoire du Toi&nbsp;&nbsp; 2:27<br /> Inspired by a Jean-michel Jarre track a friend had recorded for me called &#39;Souvenir of China&#39;. I tried to make this track sad and full of longing, but somehow hopeful... Rhythm from Casio VL-1, chords from Juno 6 and melody played on Stylophone.</div> </div>