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As with much of what’s on this album, this grew out of a jam on a synthesizer which became the bassline and defined the structure and chord progression. Although it was a jam it had chord changes that had been programmed intuitively on the fly and rather than go back and re-do the part, making the changes fit something I had written, I wrote everything else to fit the intuitive chord changes. This actually worked really well for me because it meant things happened and things changed from one section to another much quicker than I might’ve written the other way round and strangely, I feel like this has actually led to this sounding overall like one of the most ‘traditional’ song structures here. I worked quite hard getting the beat to swing in a natural sounding way against the regimented synth bass and when I had it, it was really nice to play the guitars along with it. It somehow left loads of space to play not too much in despite the quick (to me anyway) changes and I could really revel in that juicy tremolo I got from one of my favourite effects pedals: fairfieldcircuitry.com/products/randys-revenge

As for what it’s about, well, I suppose some of it is my own occasional well-meaning inefficacy, misanthropy and even downright bad faith and some of it is my judgement of others’ identical failings. On one level anyway it’s a recognition that none of us reach ‘perfection,’ if such a thing can even exist, and we might do a lot better to keep that in mind as we try to get on with one another or make an effort to very much remember it when we aren’t trying hard enough.

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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

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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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