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The Plot (Thickens)

from We Are Not Where You Are by Jamie Flett

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This was built around a repetitive bassline and beat programmed on about the cheapest synth known to mankind (a Pocket Operator: teenage.engineering/store/po-14/ and they used to be even cheaper than they are now, I guess they’ve been popular.) The chord progression was overlaid on another synth once this established the groove and some sort of base / bass note and everything kind of grew out organically around that. I think that’s the way I’ve been working on lots of projects more recently because I’m basically playing with synthesizers and drum machines first and allowing them to define a direction rather than writing a song structure and using the electronic instruments to play it. Once I’d worked out what the chord progression actually was on the guitar that was when I married lyrics to it, using words I already had and adapting them to how the music had developed. I wasn’t much interested in trying to impose a standard structure on the song but there did seem to be an obvious space to sing the words – there’s three verses but no chorus, although there is a refrain and a kind of bridge - followed by a second half that was more of a jam out so I decided slide guitar might be one of the most unexpectedly inappropriate textures to bring in for an outro and experimented with looping and reversing that to make it sound as far from Ry Cooder as possible. As for the lyrics themselves, feel free to interpret to your heart’s content but I think they can work on a personal, intimate level as well as on a larger, more abstract structural level which might make them topical for different reasons, potentially at the same time.

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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

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from We Are Not Where You Are, released June 2, 2023

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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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