yellow earth dog day/ stamping in the studio/ serpent(s) in the garden

last night horsemouth slept badly (as a result he’s feeling a bit rundown and crap at the moment). we are into the year of the yellow earth dog (apparently a friendly helpful year). the sun is shining.

tonight he goes to a party. he will take a guitar. his plan is to be sensible, see a few people, and have an early one. (who knows if that one will work).

sunday he will recover. monday to friday he will work. thursday fahey week begins.

yesterday he recorded round howard's - serpent(s) in the garden - they re-recorded a repetitive african type thing on the ukulele of howard’s and then horsemouth added a south african(ish) type guitar part at the fairly brisk tempo, howard added more uke and some throat singing and some melodica drones (on john clarkson’s melodica), horsemouth then added some whistles and then some half-speed stomping (there may be photos).


with that that the track could be pronounced finished - howard found the title of it using book divination. it doesn’t qualify as an improvisation because horsemouth pretty much knew what he wanted to do as soon as he’s had a chance to play over it and was aiming at a fairly well defined genre. howard wants to do more tracks like this reasoning that since no one listens to their stuff they are free to do what they want.

after lunch (horsemouth thanks howard for feeding him) horsemouth added a ukulele fanfare to la fille au cheveux de lin or her hair like some glittering gold (as horsemouth now calls it). they made a mix of sliabh without howard’s vocals to give denise a decent crack at singing it (if she so wishes).

with that they adjourned to the sign of the owltopus, having sunk something in the region of four pints (an expensive hobby these days), they returned back to howard’s to pick up horsemouth’s guitar and watch la jetee (howard pronounced himself horrified) and listen to various folkies.

hunger drove them out of doors and they went their separate ways.