it is the day after the work started on the next musicians of bremen album.
we have the demo for one track jai guru (lyrics lifted from across the universe and a spoken word bit 'may there be peace and love throughout all creation' from john and alice coltrane).
the main guitar is howard's hohner 12 string (which can be heard at the start).
the second guitar is his yamaha electro-acoustic (which probably isn't needed or needs to be a different instrument to cut through). it works at the end when it takes over the main riff. .
after some universe establishing harmonics on the 12 string, glockenspiel glocks and temple bells we are into the mexican theme, then a build, and then into the main jai guru deva OM then various repeats of the mexican theme and the build into the final jai guru which gradually fades and ends in bells.
in fact it probably needs to fade out earlier.
what horsemouth wanted was something like early tyrannosaurus rex and it's coming along. the 12 string is a fearsome racket all of its own. the claps are a bit weak and the melodica (used to a fake harmonium) probably drives things along too much. horsemouth wants it 'up', howard wants it contemplative, we'll see where it goes.
after they'd recorded howard fed horsemouth (quiche and potatoes). and then it was up the pub. the big empty pub on the corner seems to have closed (probably because it was reliably empty - except once or twice when it was full of small children) so it was off to the pub by the park with pizza. as usual horsemouth succumbed to the temptation of more beer but he's getting fed up with himself when he does this (it's expensive and reliably less fun than he thinks it will be).
the problem with the flat where he is staying is that the sun rises through the trees of the forest and makes the world look too beautiful. perhaps horsemouth will head off to look for more books.
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