Earwigs!
Added 2019-10-29 02:41:54 +0000 UTCHere's something from the vault that's suitable for Halloween time!
Back in 1998 (or was it 99?) I did a tape-swap with a fella who called his act "Earwig Spectre". This is a parody/tribute I did on one of my early albums which is pretty close to his style: The piano, the hard pan with piano on left & vocal on right, the demented cackling, the demonic pitch shift, and the gore/horror themes are all inspired by the original. I sent him a copy of the album (complete with me and Philo commenting over the music) and he wrote back that he really liked it.
The track starts with a weird burst of music which was the tail-end of the previous song. I mixed the album radio dj style with songs slightly overlapping each other. No, I don't have that previous song. Only a few of them survived the transition from tape to digital.
Any contact info I had for Earwig Spectre would be 20 years out-of-date, even if I could find it. "Mr. Boyden in Indiana" is definitely a reference to him. Maybe he's still around on the internet. I'm sort of afraid to look...
Comments
You were saving it for a special moment, I see...
2019-11-25 03:25:40 +0000 UTCOh wow, he's still doing it.
2019-10-29 14:57:10 +0000 UTCuhm... very interesting i'm a bit congested and listening to this with the laptop's speakers. In these conditions i normally can perceive a single source for sound, no matter what and that source is "outside my head". Yet here i could totally hear piano left, "demonic" voice right and you and the squirrel commenting center, somewhere behind me. Kudos!
Simone Spinozzi
2019-10-29 06:22:45 +0000 UTChttps://www.facebook.com/Earwig-Spectre-189062164437717/
Major Matt Mason
2019-10-29 04:18:48 +0000 UTChttps://soundcloud.com/earwig-spectre ;-)
Major Matt Mason
2019-10-29 04:18:11 +0000 UTC
