"Night Train" a bruno & Hook original

[Hook]

bruno sent me this amazing track last night and he named it Night Train but I don't think he liked the name. I always like to have a starting block so I took off running this morning on my drives to & from my gig and came up with this. I pulled over into a grocery store parking lot and recorded the vocal with the ps02 into the 004 then mixed & mastered it on the br. This was fun, thanks bruno!

Night Train
music written & performed by bruno
lyrics written & performed by Hook

Gentle Illumination
I shapes like shadow
I listen for your heartbeat
It's your breathing that gives you away

So I stay close to the wall
Nice & low, down on the floor
Keep my movements to a minimum
You shouldn't even know I'm here

       A night train of thought
       Flowing in a stream of consciousness
      Into the rapids of my discontent
      Through the holes of  your fishing net

Stopped by reflection
This mirror now holds me captive
& what I see inside the eyes of me
Is the only me I see & that me
Has nothing to do with you

        Chorus

Sudden light breaks the darkness
In headlights I am caught
Lost to the sway of a
Night train of thought

[Oldrottenhead]

bloody magic, a great starting block indeed. i love it when i get an instrumental from one of my collaborators and it has a title. it gets the lyrical juices going. fab collab guys.

[Burtog]

This is a quality collaboration, enjoyed it a lot.

[Hilary]

Great job guys

[Farrell Jackson]

Excellent jazzy, bluesy, smoothie Bruno and Hook!

Farrell

[Rata-tat-tat]

Great collab guys... Love this... am I hearing live drums Bruno??? Sounds real... and real good??? Stellar guys.

[bruno]

Just back from seeing King Eric in London (Eric Johnson) - man that guy can play!

Wow Hook, you knock those lyrics out of the park Bro - fab vox. Love it!

B.

[bruno]

Great collab guys... Love this... am I hearing live drums Bruno??? Sounds real... and real good??? Stellar guys.

Thanks Tod - yeah that's me attempting to play a Djembe - along with the drum machine. I don't really like drum machines - so a live drum here and there helps soften the mechanical-ness of a drum machine :-)

Technical bit:
One brook guitar, two mikes - hard panned left and right.
Drum machine with a really slow (80 bpm) beat (actually hard to feel the beat with this) - but nice a sparce
Added Djembe with loads of verb
Added my ketchup bottle/brown rice shaker
and the Luke for the lead through the jazz COSM amp model

Sent to Hook, and he added his words and vox :-)

B.

[andy casson]

Very cool guys, loved the vibe, the mix, the playing Mr B, and those vocals are sublime Hook

wonderful
Andy

[kenny mac]

Im loving the mellow chilled out vibe thats in the songcrafter air just now,this is a great sound for a great chilled out song,well done.