THROW-IT-BACK THURSDAY EP# 12

The 12th installment of ‘THROW-IT-BACK THURSDAY’!
the ‘Catch-and-Release Sessions’
This week:

‘lint’
[from the album ‘separate‘, 2003]

A minimal track about the ‘spiritual lint’ we carry around on us – the the residue and stains of our emotional baggage and unresolved inner conflicts –  that, try as we may to hide it, is obvious to everyone else. I was experimenting at the time with writing minimal tracks with minimal lyrics (just a few lines, no chorus or bridge sections) and I think is this song is my most successful in that regard.

As far as the sonic landscape, I enjoy the fact that there is no bass. The low end is created with an 808 kick drum that is heavily compressed and put through a distortion pedal. The rest is simply the 808, a Waldorf Microwave synth and some manipulated guitar noise tracks by Maz Fusion.

credits:
Performed, recorded, produced & mixed by brilliantfish
Sonic guitar crimes by Maz Fusion
Mastered by Ray Montford

lyrics:

it hides in the truth
you’ll never know it
shine as it does – shine as it does

it clings in the light
you’ll never see it
scream as it does – scream as it does

it hides in the truth
you’ll never know it
shine as it does – shine as it does…

[© 2003 brilliant fish music]