'we're bust I say. we're bust you say...'

Duncan and the Cardboard Cutouts · Horsey4

as ian returned to the house last night (with his Ipod on) he heard in his ears the sound of duncan tangy howling to make a decision. for indeed ian had copied the track when making a CD copy of the horsemouth and goatboy album. now what was that monosyllabic title? ah yes. bust.

'we're bust I say. we're bust you say...' 

sadly horsemouth can play you none of this online (he was very proud of his arrangement of that particular track). he can however play you tracks goatboy recorded later. 

horsemouth is in the midst of two arguments (the disputatious best). 

the one he regards as pointless and unnecessary (but perhaps it will clear the air). horsemouth is inclined not to argue but these means the minor misunderstandings that build up over time that can begin to sap one's willingness to engage with things. the other he regards as necessary (important even) but ultimately pointless. 

for the first he has suggested a cooling off period for the second it is important to keep pushing. 

it is the (seventh?) anniversary of the second ever musicians of bremen gig played for tim goldie down in dalston (they were promoting the newly completed volume one). musicians  has been a good and very productive space for horsemouth, he has put his talent in the service of an interesting project and the results have been good.

there have been disagreements before maybe they will resolve themselves. 

at first he thought the song ian was singing came from the first musicians of bremen  album (but no). 

horsemouth is at a point of transition. the road has run out on the sinecure. the pandemic has come along and put the whole working/living in the city  equation under question. it has altered the whole balance of life expectancy. only time will tell where it is all going (or indeed where horsemouth wants his life to go). 

there have been gaps in the productivity of musicians of bremen before and of horsemouth's involvement with it - the current tranche of material was two years in the making (and is now one year old), volume two is almost entirely howard (horsemouth sings on one track and plays guitar on two out of ten).  tomorrow will be the 6th anniversary of its release. 

... and then there will be a near three year gap until volume three. (horsemouth cannot remember why that was). 

at some point althusser discusses the silences  in our writings (the times when we do not write, the things we do not say). the hole in the text that suggests the material that must fill it. 

it will be a rainy grey weekend. and then horsemouth will be away to the bank rather than back out east to make more music.