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days when the gasman comes at 5​-​40

by Simon Aulman

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the crocodile 02:34
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background to toy train 02:51
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convalescent 02:44
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lady reading 02:48
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doria in a black dress 02:36
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mother maria poussenpin 02:18
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woman with crossed hands 02:53
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la chambre sur la cour 02:44
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the pilgrim 02:43
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chloe boughton-leigh 02:55
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elizabethan echo 02:43
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claerwen james 02:43
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susanna roope dockery 02:28
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the flamboyant option 02:32
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sober days lived drunk 02:44
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also dying 02:53
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repeat all day 01:30
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about

BUSINESS MATTERS =

(1) no I am not "back"

(2) this and the previous album were both made yonks ago and hung around in drafts for ages nagging at me for freedom. Now I can relax

(3) there will be a physical whatever of the previous/Scriabin album soon-ish, so please feel free to start saving for it, or preparing to fake your own death to save my blushes, or just shrug and don't give a fuck

(4) this album was just a build-up of keyboard noodlings that in the end had about 40 tracks to it - so many of the tracks were really very bad, yes ha ha I know I know but really offspring as ugly as that should never be allowed to leave the maternity unit, so this morning I did the necessary for the betterment of musickind and here are the 17 surviving tracks that I can live with, some very contentedly

(4a) if you like the first track you can hear the original 40-odd minute version of it on my Katharine Eastman page, it's called Wiltshire over there

(4b) apologies but there are moments during this album when I almost sound like a "proper" musician - yno like it was made on a million pound keyboard in Ableton and then worked on for ten months and I spoke to people in the dark corners at no-one-there gigs about how my current project was getting on - and yes in my head I am Prefab Sprout, but in my life I am still that thicko who hasn't learnt anything and it's all a random mess, but even though I don't want to, because I know that "progress" is a lie like religion, I suppose I must be learning things, and I never even wanted that.

(5) Jim O'Rourke emailed me yesterday to ask if the next time I'm over in the USA I'd care to work with him on a collab album. I wrote back and told him that I never travel further than a day's walk from home but that if he manages to get to the UK before he dies he'd be welcome to stay here and he could choose from either my tiny gtr or tiny keyboard and we could realise what a farce it all is but he must surely know that already and really anyone can come and stay cos I'm getting so bored and even muso anecdotes from the bored would be better than waiting for the gasman (which I did yesterday - he finally arrived at 5-40), we could see who's the most boring, and it wouldn't be the gasman

(6) one of the above things isn't true

(7) But it might be, because I now get so many emails that it actually takes longer to delete the unglanced-at daily slew than it used to take to read them back in the days when I got none-ish, weren't they great days, you remember them ? months on Pirate Bay watching a Neil Young bootleg take three weeks to download, using netty porn to catch up on all the sex that I should've had when we all pretended we were having any, early morning of sunshine on the screen bathing the house in music loud for the countryside I used to live in and now finally miss, city-life is great and all that, rarely boring, each outing is a dicing with abuse and death and if I need proof that life gets worse it's that I now don't fear the imminent nuclear war at all, let's just get everything out there before it happens, that's really why this is here


music recorded to mic from a battery keyboard a couple of weeks ago, painting by me

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released April 19, 2024

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