confiding in the evening star

such was the spare title howard had sitting around - he also had a new song - horsemouth combined the two but he is worried that he may have done to much ‘work’ to it and clouded howard’s original intention.

they have at least one more rehearsal (friday) before the gig (saturday, waterintobeer) to get everything up and running and ship-shape and bristol fashion.

 the slide guitar makes sense to horsemouth but he is still in a quandry about the standard tuning guitar (he normally takes two guitars so he can avoid doing any onstage retuning) - he’s been using howard’s old acoustic (which is a bit buzzy and sitar-like for some tastes), horsemouth wants to leave it droning on with the e-bow on it while he plays the slide but that needs it, at a minimum, to have a metal cored d-string. he may put one on one of his nylon strung guitars and give that a try.

for blue crystal fire (re-imagined by howard as a waltz) he’s abandoned (at least for now) the discordant strummed guitar (‘have you been listening to sonic youth?’ asked howard in horror) and is just concentrating on playing a theremin-like e-bow line (whilst trying not to put howard’s off).

once they’d rehearsed for a bit they went for a walk down to the thames and ate some rice and drank a bottle of beer.

horsemouth then went home and watched seraphim falls a revenger type western which (unlike the revenant) fails because it is unwilling to show its central characters in anything other than a good light. by the time angelica huston is wheeled on (literally) it’s all gone badly wrong.

the night before he’d watched kurosawa’s i live in fear broadly this is a conventional japanese family drama - except that the family patriarch wants to move the family to brazil to escape the impending nuclear war. the family don’t want to go - in the end he’s in a loony bin looking up at the sun believing it’s the earth on fire.


horsemouth has found himself singing the confiding in the evening star  chorus - so he thinks it's a runner.

horsemouth puts up links to two promising american primitive projects - one of which features e-bow on acoustic guitar (but very subtly applied).