JL833191A Revisited

Hi

Thanks for coming to read this.

This really isn’t a new single at all…i’ll explain why I decided to put out another version.

This version has been developed from a live session that I performed throughout 2017-18, with a person called Guy Fleisher, from Tel Aviv in Israel, who I met through Goldsmiths University. We started working together to do live gigs and played at a few venues in London and Kent. What you hear is a mixture of our production efforts.

When I first made JL833191A, I wasn’t equipped with the production skills to make it into what I heard in my head. I was dissatisfied with the result. Meeting Guy and collaborating with him on this track and other subsequent material opened up a new way of working, in which we essentially jammed over the top of loops and audio stems that I had on a hard drive. He then added other elements and production techniques, that I hadn’t considered. I like to think that the result is a little more polished, but not that shiny. It felt wrong to not at least put the track in the public domain when someone else had put their effort into it’s reimagining.

Aside from the creative sound process, lyrically this song no longer feels like it’s about my situation, and my life has changed very much from when I first wrote those lyrics. However, I still feel that the words are reflective of some of the complex socio-economic situations that I tend to see, read and hear about. If you want to read about the original motivations for the song, please head to the bottom of the blog where you can read the original posting.

Follow here to listen and I hope it does something for you,

Duncan.