¦ dialling in from the sky bunker ¦
08:41, Sunday 21st October 2007, baby blue sky above the canopy, golden hue of early morning sunlight, crisp and autumn fresh. I've got life support on, it's humming away down to my right, blowing warm air on my feet that are wrapped in a pair of hand-knitted Norwegian socks,with a second layer of wool hiking socks that must be 20 years old now (and still have my name label sown into the hem from when I used to wear them at School). I'm also wearing Starsky.
I've been awake for less than an hour; I left the delicious warmth of the bed, leaving Jo and Sarah sleeping. Just finished my 1st mug of tea, I spent many minutes sitting in the spare bedroom on the 1st floor, looking out the wide window with views across the city, the deep green slash of the river valley and surrounding forest (Bristol's answer to Jesmond Dene), the vast bulk of Dundry Hill rising up in the distance, through the mist, like some slumbering Cthulhoid giant.
Yesterday was my first session of Yellow Dawn since starting this new job/ new phase of my life. Excellent session. My brain is coping with a full time job and early morning wake-up/writing routine. Nice Guy Tony asked me to sign his copy of the Yellow Dawn rulesbook...which was a pleasure to do for him.
So now I'm up here, listening to two new albums I've got. What a treat for me to get these, now, at this point in my life. Rather than blend them into the vast mass of my music collection, part of the random play function, I'm now spending time playing them in isolation, side by side, repeating the experience again and again, embedding their sound into the memories of this period... ensuring that they become the soundtrack to this period.
UNKLE - War Stories (David J Rodger)
I've been into UNKLE since Matthias (Vega$) introduced me to them on a tape cassette in 1997. I walked around Amsterdam in the rain one weekend, with UNKLE as my companion to "the most beautiful Walk in the World". UNKLE became the soundtrack of my travelling tour across Canada.
HYBRID - I choose noise (David J Rodger)
I've been into HYBRID since going snowboarding in France in Jan 2005 with a bunch of people I didn' t know. Morning Scifi rocked my world and I've been eagerly waiting for something like this to come out of their creative womb ever since.
Both UNKLE & HYBRID deserve an understated roar of glory, a recognition that keeps them out of the minds of the mainstream chav-culture, they both create music that touches your soul, and elevates your imagination into new realms of emotionally charged awareness.
Plans for the day: I need to read through the existing material for Shadows of Quantinex, to pick up the threats left dangling from last November... and continue the editorial on Yellow Dawn (nearly finished first stage of this), both tasks don't require my laptop so I'm free to drive into town and grab a coffee, sit in the sunshine and savour my space and time.
Djr