it seems a shame to lie in bed when the sun is shining (the last of the money)

here we have pressure of speech (aka. micky mann) and his renamed mothman. horsemouth opines this is his best track. he liked gritty textures but horsemouth thinks the whole house/ techno thing was about artificially smooth sounds, perfect in their regularity. as far as horsemouth knows he has retired from music making which makes horsemouth feel guilty for not having appreciated his work more when he was active. 

a while ago he seems to have got a rerelease. 

horsemouth also posted a bert (jansch) and john (renbourn) track. this is mostly because he likes the cover and wants to parody it for the musicians of bremen album of guitar duets. 

(doubtless this idea will fall by the wayside.)

horsemouth is an enthusiast. when he is keen on something he wants to do it immediately and has little patience with any possible logistical issues (or indeed the feelings of his collaborators). this is why he prefers working on other people's stuff.

his tendency is not to exhaustively prepare but to do a minimum amount of work and then show up and see what happens (despite the fact that he is not in fact a good improviser). for this reason his output is a little hit and miss.

musicians of bremen  has been just about the best possible place to be for horsemouth with just about the best possible collaborator (howard). it has produced some of the best possible tracks. if horsemouth had to pick favourites it would be  - amarach from volume four, on the banks of the susquehanna from volume three, noah from volume two, and sorrows of tomorrow from volume one. these feature some of the best possible performances from horsemouth (given the limitations of his talent). 

musicians are however very constrained in terms of recording time and energy. 

what he should learn to do is get on with his own stuff (or get some other collaborations on the go). but he's a slow (self) starter. at one point (in the horsemouthfolk pre-musicians of bremen era) he was recording himself (and that went ok). this is something he should probably return to now that he has the time. 

he should make a list (that's how he normally gets most things going). 

summertime  by j.m. coetzee progresses. coetzee gives his biography subject (john coetzee) a hard time, coldly noting his failures as a human being, letting the supporting cast muscle him out of the way for the reader's attention. (horsemouth is reminded of himself). horsemouth (so far) prefers disgrace by him which is much darker. 

later breakfast. later today a walk (doubtless). horsemouth thinks he will return to the seaside towns friday/ saturday (he has some child minding work saturday). 

horsemouth is waiting for the last few furlough cheques to hit his account and then the redundancy payment. at some point (the end of july) he will have seen the last of the money. horsemouth will be hiding up in walthamstralia. then in august there will be the musicians of bremen recording campaign for 2021 which horsemouth expects to be brief because horsemouth expects howard will need to harbour his resources for his work over the winter of 2021/22 (which horsemouth expects to be hard).