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Full sleevenotes:
It’s late Spring in Haggerston, a little east of ShoHo, and I’m looking out onto Regent’s Canal reflecting on Chemical Jazz. There are experiments with combinations of full versus minimalist arrangements. There are impressions of thoughts and feelings connected with events that are never quite described. There are beautiful songs and dirty little homages to loved and lost bands. The mood is broadly chilled but not entirely easy. And it is introspective, even in the second and third person. It is difficult to reach a conclusion as to what the whole of these sums of parts comes to mean but these are definitely psychological not philosophical explorations. Although these were not all written during the same period they feel intuitively to belong together. There are many songs that I love but relatively few songs that I genuinely wish I had written (Quicksand by David Bowie springs immediately to mind). But I am genuinely moved by the songs on Chemical Jazz and, if they had been written by someone else, I would wish I had written them. And I am genuinely enthused by their arrangements. If they had been played by someone else I would wish I had played them. Listen to this album on headphones in the dark. Let it wash over you. Don’t analyse these songs. Trust to osmosis. Let your synapses do what it is they do and don’t interfere. It’s a chemical interaction that fizzes in here. Nick Troop, London, September 2003 Preview tracks: My favourites on this album change from one listen to the next but the songs we have chosen are consistently up there. "Gravity Means ..." is a fairly minimalist arrangement (four accoustic 12-string guitars and one electric) but I think it's the perfect arrangement for this song. Dizzy Q is an homage to Dizzy Q Viper, my favourite ever live band (and the missing link between Daisy Chainsaw and Queen Adreena). If you enjoy these then please do three things:
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