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music for six musicians

by Simon Aulman

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Having hit rock bottom with my previous discharge, things are on the up again - I've rediscovered what I always knew - if yr in a rut you've got to get out of it with noise and black and white and selflessly reaching out to her limits. The photograph is the garden this afternoon the first summer afternoon of 2013, before some friends came and we chatted under the sky of airplanes and our cockerel crowing all the time - he's not really a morning creature - and our geese shrieking cos the ladies are still laying and I kept on running away to make and tweak the final one of these three tracks because I can never really think of a second sentence to say about any subject and I leave the chat to others - which they don't mind.

We drank icy eye-aching beer and played Sinatra and Torme and really on a day like today absolutely anything you do will feel brilliant. And this feels okay to me. The first track is harsh noise - and if you made it and I heard it I'd think it was okay - but I made it so I think it is brilliant. I really do. Too long to be short enough to be unboring and too short to be long enough to be like the noise-god we sometimes touch in lucky numinous hours.

The second track is the nicest and the weakest. The final track I love so much and I had to make it because no one else makes stuff like this - because no one else likes it - so that's fair enough - not music this badly remote. Not without trying to tweak it into something more varied. Yes it is meant to be this quiet. These empty days go by and there is a difference between these lazy days at the end of healthy-adulthood and the ones we still remember from when yr twenty and so on - it's almost recklessly brave to be wasting them like this when they could all end at any hour.

With another splurge of strangely-riveting Red Bull Lectures it is time to announce my awards. And the award for the most boring interview of 2013 and of all time goes to Stephen O'Malley of the stupendously boring Sunn O))) - vimeo.com/65684720 - it's a fair gift to be as boring as his music. Dear God - imagine being a poor print journo wasting two hours talking to this twat and then spending four hours transcribing it and then trying to edit it into something remotely worth reading - impossible - you can't edit out the boring bits cos you'd be left with nothing - and if you tried to do him a favour and tweaked his words so he came across as a bit human and alive he'd only moan the way all musos always moan - god what a bunch of cunts they all are.

Eno and Richie Hawtin are as okay as ever, without really sparkling. My favourite interview is Faltydl - vimeo.com/67086391 - because everyone is tired and hungover and he mainly just plays his favourite records and it's good to be reminded that some musos make music because they like music. You can forget. In the shitty old days, no one ever realised that musos could like music - did Pink Floyd ever hint that they were music fans ? I never heard it.

But today it's less of a career and I really think that everyone who loves music should also make music - not to do so is as stupid as saying that you love reading but that you've never written anything. And if you want an interview that will make you cry (it really will) then you have to go back to last year and see the one with David Rodigan - vimeo.com/48883948 - words here aren't enough, it's one of the most moving and lifeful things I've ever seen on the internet and it'll joyfully wash your mouth out after the studied deadness of Stephen O'Malley.

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released May 31, 2013

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