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Suboptimal Descent Angle

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1.
M31 Starloop 03:38
Well Hell You finished the end of your novel While I was still crafting plotline. You handled the death of your lead with such ease, it made death asinine. You finished the sentence and told me that all of the meaning was mine. You captured the hands of the formless and faced us towards the sublime.
2.
Well your fluid's leaking critical And your screens first flicker then die. It's brutal, it's not mystical. Moving further from the sublime. An hour away from the vertical box, Ten minutes from a drink. This is not an exercise, It's time to fucking think. Two into one we go in this sad sad sad song  *  We got magic that flags rage forth. My hands are burning cold. A silent man that's screaming hoarse. The centaur will not hold. Now my head is struggling from a... Should I close this vent? He told me that we were due an Extinction level event.
3.
Taken by the sound of the basement's cool. I was thrilled by the speed come down at school. Wanna eat it not just taste it. Wanna live it not just waste it. Babadoo. I went to the city. I was ne0n pretty. I went to the city, a clueless fool.
4.
5.
Now that the snows have changed  and looking forward burns our eyes. Now that we choose our food  and trust that everybody lies. We're sure we wanted all this  though we don't know how to live. We know to ask for nothing. Nothing's what we've got to give. And we all walk sideways facing right. And we pull our smiles rictus tight We're glad we sank, who wants to swim? When there's no more breath we know we win.  On a cloudless night Poor stood tall,  accurate with death that let him rank above the particle ball. In a pulpit part repose  Where cosmos lights their life of none,  He looked up.   He's facing up... I came before the book appeared to call me. I did not hear their saccharine-tounged call out. I knew I was anointed. Brought myself back. "This is your name" the woman said. An angel! "Nothing hurts through that doorway to nothing. One day I shall become what they have longed for. One day I shall become a thought. One day I shall become a thought."
6.
You are the target! :(
7.
"Moo" etc
8.
Vs.1 I was and was not In this world's white dreams. I grew alone. What did you do back then? I shed my casting. A new skin for my core. This subterfuge carries no meaning. Ch. And I’m afraid (in this new dark world.) And I’m afraid (in this unkind world.) And I’m afraid (in this stupid world.) And I’m afraid Vs.2 I left years behind. A stranger in the glass. The past tugged my strings with its secrets. A million instants. Two possibilities. I chose the road that pledged to feed me. Coda. Will you hold me and hold me and hold me and...?
9.
She walks in beauty, like the night
 Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
 And all that's best of dark and bright
 Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
 Thus mellow'd to that tender light
 Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

 One shade the more, one ray the less,
 Had half impaired the nameless grace
 Which waves in every raven tress,
 Or softly lightens o'er her face;
 Where thoughts serenely sweet express
 How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

 And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
 So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
 The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
 But tell of days in goodness spent ,
A mind at peace with all below,
 A heart whose love is innocent!
10.
Last Minute 04:39
At twenty-five, her looks throwing light, My mother eyes her eyes, spreads her hair. All that we can do is serve another. The best that we can do now is take. Jack in the suit, memory heavy, Slowly takes out his pen; A sword from a stone, a fin through the water. That's the sound of death; small, no doors. (x2) My father at the same time chose martyrdom; To live his sauce-bottle life. Still two years old, waiting at his feet I do what I do with the time. (x2) (ch) Now my head is sinking from a doubt regained. They coloured me. The dead flavoured my years. This is what it sounds like when you're dead. This is what it sounds like when you're dead.

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Crater Pigs: Suboptimal Descent Angle
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Released 21st Nov 2020

FANCY COLOURFUL ART VERSION OF SLEEVE NOTES (pdf) HERE:
drive.google.com/file/d/1GlemG1pMkStTVlYhJoMmS01r0vFncHFB/view?usp=sharing

Credits:

Simon Fitzpatrick - guitars, keys, drums, recording/mixing @ Crater Studios East
John Stanford - vocals, lyrics, percussion, recording @ Crater Studios West
Florian de Gesincourt @ www.Degesart.com - cover art

Additional material by Lord Byron, Bruce Robinson, Richard E. Grant, W. Shakespeare, US Govt. (none of whom were asked, soz but thanx)

Side 1:
1. M31 Starloop Fitzpatrick/Stanford
2. Blue Milk Canyon Fitzpatrick/Stanford
3. Docking Sequence Fitzpatrick/Stanford/Robinson/Grant/Shakespeare
4. Kohoutek 76973 Fitzpatrick
5. Kooki Malooki Fitzpatrick/Stanford

Side 2:
6. Fertile Felds & Grazing Herds (YATT)
Fitzpatrick/US Govt.
7. Island Germinator (Don’t Mind If I Do)
Fitzpatrick
8. Escape Velocity Fitzpatrick/Stanford
9. Crater Picnic Fitzpatrick/Stanford/Byron
10. Last MInute Fitzpatrick/Stanford


As with most halfway-acceptable things in life, Crater Pigs came about as a result of two people monkeying about on separate continents - and then deciding to monkey about together, using the magic of the internet. When we first did a demo, in about 1987*, we had to pay our share of £25 per hour and got the results on a reel of 1/2 inch tape. Where that tape is now, nobody knows, but “a landfill site somewhere in southern England” would be a reasonable guess.

The equipment available (for peanuts, and sometimes nothing) today is quite literally mental. Chuck a multitrack demo across the Atlantic in seconds? Of course! Obviously we spend most of our time travelling the intergalactic highways in search of mind-expanding wormhole extrapolation scenarios, but anyway this whole digital thing here on Earth is completely bananas.

Here’s what we used - and none of these (marvellously clever) fuckers are paying us to say so.


John:

Oktava MK-319 excellent old Soviet microphone – 205 mm long.
Yamaha MR816X lovely pre-amps with inverted Darlington circuits apparently. Not like those rubbish non-inverted Darlingtons. Wouldn't be seen dead using such tat.
Various shakers, quakers and tambourines.
Tetley British Blend tea.


Simon:

Guitars:
Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty
Fender Stratocaster
Gretsch Electromatic Jet Club (? The cheap one with the licensed Bigsby anyway)
Yamaha FG800
EKO Ranger 12 (not on this album but… ooooh)
Fender acoustic (DG-27-something)

Basses:
Fender Precision
Squier Not-Very-Precision

Amps:
Fender Deluxe 90
Roland Microcube

Virtual amps:
Engl, Diezel, Chandler, Friedman, Ampeg etc etc

Mics:
Lewitt 440 Pure
Shure SM57

Midi keyboards:
Arturia & Nektar

Keys plugins:
A lot of virtual keys including…
Arturia V Collection
Waves Element
Siren
U-he

Drums:
Steven Slate Drums

Triangles:
An actual triangle (thanks James!)

Virtual triangles:
Xpand2

Mixing & recording stuff:
SF - Pro Tools 12.7
JS - Cubase 6.0, Reaper 6.15

One million plugins, but almost always…

EQs:
Waves REQ
Dangerous BAX
BX_2098
Lindell PEX-500

Compressors:
Arturia 1176 and dbx-165
BX_Townhouse
Kramer PIE
SPL Iron

Channel strips/virtual preamps:
BX_4000 E SSL
Lindell 80 (Neve)
Arturia 1973, V76, TridA

Reverbs and delays
Mostly Waves, Eventide, Arturia, McDSP, Boz

Tea
PG Tips

“Tea”
Retsina

Special mention:
McDSP saturation module (the one that looks a bit Neve-esque)



SF thanks (for inspiration):
Tony Iommi, Les Gray and John Fante. And a shitload of other people including McCoy Tyner, Dave Brock & Co., Neil Peart and Jon Pertwee. And Suzanne Ciani and Toumani Diabate. And Charles Darwin and Galileo. And Laurie Spiegel, Florian de Gesincourt (without whom the album would be called something else), Bruce Robinson & Richard E. Grant (pls no lawyers), Lemmy, Ralf & Florian, Brian Eno, Neil Young, Teenage Fanclub, Mr D. Bowie, Bobbi Humphrey, Geddy & Alex, Alice Coltrane, Angus & Malcolm, Dorothy Ashby, Leonard Nimoy and Roger Delgado. And Bill Evans. Oh yeah - and Those Beatles. And Cornelius and Yoshinori Sunahara.

JS pop music inspirations:
Etta James, Throwing Muses, Marion Brown, Bjork, Bowie, Billie Holliday, György Ligeti, Jacques Brel, Nina Simone, Liz Frazer, Siouxsie, Nico, Maddy Ellwanger, Stereolab, Gladys Knight, Lennie Tristano, Minnie Ripperton, Arnold Schoenberg, Billy Mackenzie, Laurie Anderson, Juana Molina, Joshie Jo Armstead, Tammi Terrell, and the very missed Steve Taylor.



*with The Manix - hello, Other John and Martin and Other Martin xxx

credits

released November 21, 2020

Simon Fitzpatrick - guitars, keys, drums, recording/mixing @ Crater Studios East
John Stanford - vocals, lyrics, percussion, recording @ Crater Studios West

Florian de Gesincourt @ www.Degesart.com - cover art

Additional material by Lord Byron, Bruce Robinson, Richard E. Grant, W. Shakespeare, US Govt. (none of whom were asked, soz but thanx)

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