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We Are Not Where You Are

by Jamie Flett

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Beginner 03:02
Nonsense songs At the top of your lungs Fine imaginary times Find imaginary times
2.
The plot’s been lost It’s been mislaid We can’t seem to get our story straight It’s not the plan The one that came undone We’re always looking for another one We’re going down We’re spinning out We’re plundering the shadows of our doubt It’s not the plan The one that came undone We’re always looking for another one It’s not the plan at all The one that came undone
3.
Mumpsimus 05:36
You stand ready for the fight of your life But you're wrong and you know nothing at all Your enemy's a ghost to lay the blame on You may be wrong and they know nothing at all I watch the North Atlantic lightning on my telephone Fragile webs of conurbations Give their human glow Holding open your mind Why choose a side You choose your team and you find a hill to die on But you're wrong and you know nothing at all Your opinion doesn't mean I can rely on Things you say if you know nothing at all I watch the North Atlantic lightning on my telephone Fragile webs of conurbations Give their human glow Holding open your mind Why choose a side
4.
Between the air and me A synergy And my gravity Asking how to be ? The possibilities I will sing the sea Just feel the breeze Asking how to be ? I will sing the sea My time, time for me How fine, to sing the sea Feel the breeze Feel the beach's beat Just feel the breeze The possibilities I will sing the sea Just feel the breeze
5.
Too Warm 06:38
It's too warm to be so cold You're too young to feel so old It's all wrong to be all done So forlorn to be all gone
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Trying 04:07
He says he's got a lot Of love to give But he keeps it for himself Says he is a one Who loves to live But not with anybody else Trying to do something, don't know what to do Let alone make it good Trying to do something, don't know what to do Let alone make it good So self-contained Sometimes you cannot get out And I know the feeling From trying it out Trying to do something, don't know what to do Let alone make it good
7.
Bone Tones 05:23
Endless variation of the Shapes and composition The random cruelty we find Charging this reality Endless variation of the Shapes and composition So luminous and free So limitless and free We are the data Rearrangement of the letters A-ment range re-let The ofters are we the atad? Time will change the tones and the Tones sound through your bones Bones move through the time and the Time will set the bones Time will change the tones and the Tones sound through your bones. Tones, tones Moving your bones We are the data Rearrangement of the letters A-ment range re-let The ofters are we the atad?
8.
Drama Drama 05:16
You should save your drama For what will really harm you Wasting all your energy Stretching your credulity Shadows and straw effigies What will you believe? Please be still my beating brain My bleeding heart, my conscience strained Fracturing reality Stretching my credulity
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Seawolves of green In the aquamarine Columbus: he named their brotherhood When Cortez came, he killed them too Order of the water Caribbean Brotherhood Seawolves of green

about

Possibly more than anything else I’ve recorded, ‘We Are Not Where You Are’ is an effort towards capturing some essence of spontaneous creativity. Slightly paradoxically, I was using drum machines and / or loops as a backbone or starting point a lot of the time and I think I probably tried to keep the feel of everything else, especially actual instruments, as loose and human as possible around the robot beats and repetition of loops to minimise any rigidity or monotony.

I also didn’t start with a fully written ‘song’ in most cases or any preconceived notions of what a track was going to be, so the recording process was more jam-like in nature until something emerged or suggested itself. That’s a departure from the way I’ve generally worked in the past. I didn't have time to practice parts before recording them since I was mainly operating in a way where one thing suggested another and I just recorded ideas as I was trying them. This kept things fresh but perhaps also on a knife edge and has resulted in a raw and unpolished sound in places, but also some sense of immediacy and humanity or even – that wildly slippery term in rock and pop music - authenticity. I left room for improvisation and experimentation to try and further reinforce the balance between the potentially unnatural or inelastic electronic, synthesized elements against not entirely predictable organic, human elements.

This approach did mean it took me some time to carve out what I felt were meaningful arrangements rather than just interesting but crowded jams. The balance of contrasting sounds also challenged my technical skills and I had to learn some production and mixing techniques to try and make some sense out of materials that were / are a something of a raw and unfiltered expression of creativity attempting to fuse different genres and textures into one cohesive whole.

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released June 2, 2023

Made and played by Jamie Flett.

With piano, synthesizer and keyboards from Safetynett.

Mastered by Sam Smith, SJS Mastering at Green Door Studios.
www.sjsmastering.com

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Jamie Flett Glasgow

Music maker from Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland, now living in Glasgow.
Since my first collection of skewed, folkish blues songs: ‘Cold But Bright’ I’ve tried to resist the artificial limitations of defining myself as a ‘singer-songwriter’ (admittedly, while writing and singing songs.) This has resulted in attempts to investigate some remoter sonic territories.. As well as more songs. ... more

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