'2001', or cuthbert mines the archives

[cuthbert]

Hi all,

I haven't posted anything in a while, so I thought I'd share this olde chestnut written by my friend Bill Hardy that I arranged and we recorded way back in the summer of 2000. There wasn't any such miracle as a Boss Micro BR back then, so we recorded this through a Yamaha 8-track cassette multitracker mixer fed into a PowerMac running Digitrax, a very rudimentary software digital multitrack recorder.

Bill: main lead vocals, acoustic guitar, some echoey noises
cuthbert: chorus lead vocals, backing vocals, bass, banana-fingers piano, 'sitar', 'strings', 'drums' (these from a Roland synth), more echoey noises, and a Stylophone

We wore our influences on our sleeves, and it is a child of its time - I hope you enjoy it:

title: 2001
lyrics/music and performance: Bill Hardy/cuthbert
recorder: Digitrax

[Tony W]

This is cool as hell cuth. excellent quality production. and the song itself is fantastic. The construction of this song is superb. WOW man, like I said, when you do it, you do it right.

[Bluesberry]

so very Bowie of you two. Great song, really great production for the equipment you had.

[Tangled Wires]

Superb track, the sort of song that you know from listening to it that has had a huge amount of thought and effort gone into it. It is wonderfully structured and performed.

The production is unbelievable good, sounds as if it was recorded on a BR or equivalent modern day digital recorder.

We don't get many musical posts from you Cuthbert, but when we do they are real treats!

[OsCKilO]

I can hear the Amount of work that has gone into this sublime work......

So I feel like I am short changing you by saying this... But it seems to sum it up perfectly...

Well here it goes...


"FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!"

[Oldrottenhead]

loving this lovely and laid back feel, loving your vox on the chorus cuthbert

[Gnasty]

Spectacular Cuth!!

The vocals, the drums, the song and music sounds amazing.

That`s freakin a wicked production!!

Perfection!!

[Satchwood]

`Superb song `Cuth.!.!  Very impressive; your singing and playing sound great ~ i think the percussion and production is excellent, really!   ...very laid back, clean, and catchy...

[lg]

Your vox in the chorus is Outstanding.
This is such a cool song....Thank you for sharing it
with all of us here.
Piepod bound.......

LG

[SE]

Quality work here, just sounds so good, must have spent some on this to get this quality from your equipment, sometimes equipment does,nt matter, it,s talent that important, loved the listen.