Swings and Contractors

Welcome to Jhenge had been a somewhat trying time. Especially toward the end of the album. Band members shooting
each other, armies crushed.. it was time for something a little less serious. This album is the first to be recorded
all in one place. Specifically (and in a somewhat uncool way) my bedroom. A pretty mixed bag of tracks and only two
people involved this time. Alex had gone off to university to start taking magic mushrooms, take over where Tesla left off,
read lots of David Icke twaddle and alter his reality tunnel. Or something.

Butchered Product

Industrial is making a bit of a comeback in our sound again here. Even though it just doesn't really seem to work here.
The beat is somewhat floppy and my vocal is utterly horrific. The lyric is a combined effort from Duncan and myself. Duncan
wrote most of it with me adding stuff in the 'groping blind' verse and final verse. I didn't understand what Duncan was
really getting at with his lyric here, hence my contribution being a bit bollocks to say the least. Duncan was writing about
how litter can be a form of advertising and I just went off on one pretentious thingy again. Note how I mess up and
accidentally start singing another chorus at one bit when I shouldn't. Shockingly bad. But I wonder, would it have been
better with better vocals? Probably not. Nice 303 esque noise from the SH-101 though.

Revisions

An instrumental piece somewhat 80s in styling. Just a fun little tune really. It was largely written by me from the
main lead sound. Unfortunately I accidentally turned the bass up to high on the bass sound so it sounds
utterly terrible. It might be worth recording again at some point. Duncan was controlling the SH-101 here.
The lead sound being played entirely by me on the Polysix. Sounds like I was finally learning how to play.

Achievement

I really think this should have a proper title as this one is a bit crap. However this is a wonderful track, even if
=I did write it all myself. It was late one night, as I think the music kind of reflects, and I started playing the
polysix and found this lovely sound and sort of melody thing. I then started writing the song. Wrote the lyrics
(one line of them 'tiny ruby tears' was inspired by Steve Severin's performance of the Assassin's script on the
show Play at Home from 1983). I liked the idea of doing what sounds initially like a love song, only to throw in
a twist at the end. The 707 is excellently mixed here and I like my gradual introduction of the sounds of the beat.
I was crouched at the side of my bed nearest next door's wall with the 101 behind me and the 707 to my left.
Not comfortable at all. I'm impressed this sounds as good as it does considering my cramped conditions.
My trademark too much reverb is evident again. I love reverb me. I slightly messed up the line 'Steel blade..'
In my original lyric it was just 'Steel blade by the shoulder'. I accidentally say blade twice. This sounds so
nice, maybe I do have some talent after all.

Getting Near

I like unusual beat patterns. Mainly because Siouxsie used them from time to time. I think this one works out
at 9 1/2 beats. Produced mainly with the idea of swirling and discomfort being king. Also an experiment with
two vocalists at once. The excess of reverb is slightly murky here. I believe I was using a head mic for this
one whilst playing the guitar. Naturally being as I was playing guitar, Duncan covered SH-101 controlling.
Quite minimal really and again it could do with a better title. Duncan wrote most of the lyric with me adding
an extra line at the end. The interplay of rhythms here is pretty good and the whole swirly thing is interesting.
Still not really that good though. I like it when I play some chords on the guitar as opposed to the individual
notes. Duncan didn't like me adding 'broken dream' to it as he felt it was too clichéd.
Oh and the keyboard entrance at the end was slightly and accident I think. The idea was to play the keyboard
but it turned out it had been stuck on a note all that time, as we faded it up.

Nitrate Visions

Oh dear what a mess. More industrial type stuff being attempted but that Amiga beat is so badly recorded that
it has no gusto watsoever. The guitar playing is terrible when I'm playing quite fast. Again two vocalists featured.
But only in the chorus. Doesn't help that we don't sing the same notes or anywhere near in the right pitch. Duncan's
'uhhh' near the start really tends to set the tone for the whole thing and what happens to singing after the first
chorus? Oops. Thankfully we made a much better job of this cut up lyric from the Jenny Molloth story. Wherever that is.

Duncan wanted to sound clever at the end by making sounds which sounded like words but weren't actually. The idea was
that they would only just be audible so you wouldn't know he was talking nonsense. Unfortunately the noises fade out
before he does and you can clearly tell he's talking nonsense. Oops again.

Aloi

I can't remember where the words come from but it's really just a waste of time and space for the 30 seconds it lasts.
Duncan reads out a story and I play guitar badly. Moving on...

35 Footsteps Black

CLASSIC! Wonderful! Written on a sunday just before lunch and before roleplaying. It was around Bloodworks time.
Ron had written the lyrics about a girl he loved but lost to another guy. I perform them very well considering that
when he wrote them they had no sense of scanning or whatever. I had to choose when to break things up appropriate
to the song. That SH-101 arpeggio sounds lovely despite its simplistic nature. I'm playing the polysix and singing at
the same time via the chord function where you can set it to play a few notes from playing one. There's two drum
machines on the go here. The 707 and the 606. Ron always remarked that he really liked the way I say 'wild' in the
'eyes wild, down the corridoor'. I try to copy Andrew Eldrich with the "oohhI was there" bit. It's meant to be a bit
like how he does some of the bits in Under The Gun. I enjoyed dropping down to just beat and arp for the burn in my
mind. Bit. It all comes together to make one of my all time favourites. Definitely in my top 10. Is it too repetitive?
I don't find so. I would like this even if I hadn't recorded it. It's another sleepy song I guess.

Ode To the Living Dead

Another track I consider a classic. My lyric, which was written whilst listening to Marilyn Manson at my Grandma's.
The track I was listening to at that particular time was Great Big White World. It has a similar attitude to this so maybe
I could practically be accused of plagiarism. Some slight lyrical timings marr it a bit but generally it's a pretty good
industrial esque song about how I wanted to live my life. The message is a tad sloppily delivered perhaps and also it is
a tad generic teenager stuff. It's pretty much me saying I always want to be a bit different. There's
nothing wrong with that is there? It's kind of also me saying I never want to be a git and I'm a bit sick of all the
reality TV type things.. how things are just so manufactured these days. I wrote the Sh-101 bassline and Duncan did a
brilliant job of the keyboard work. This is a track I greatly enjoyed performing at the time and I got quite excited.
I'd love to perform this live.

Shake

I'd been interested for quite some time in doing something a bit loose sounding with a bit of a swingy element to it.
I think that's how you describe it anyway. Unfortunately there just isn't enough here that is musically interesting.
It was about gaps and feeling the music but there really wasn't enough music here to feel and this improv really
isn't that interesting to listen to. It was reasonably enjoyable for me to improvise on my bass whilst Duncan played
the polysix but still it's a track which is just simply mediocre really.

Brief History

It's all about Jan Doyle! Rather rubbish basic music backs a description of Jan Doyle's history. All this time
and we didn't reveal who Jan Doyle was! Gosh! Wow! Oh hang on, no one knows we exist so that's not a big reveal after all.
The words are actually quite interesting but the music is a waste of time. Still at least this track tells people how to
pronounce the band name. It's not Yan Doyle Band you fools!

Write Here Steve

The Amiga provides some samples for the beat hence its slight rough sound. Duncan is singing too low and hurting his vocal
chords. I wrote the lyrics and I was trying to be particularly clever. The first verse was done from the concept of the last
word on each line actually making more meaning when put in front of the next line as well. The title is taken from my
Blue Folder from my Grandma's house. I wrote that phrase on the front because I had wanted my cousin Steven to write something
there. I don't think he did. Ron always liked the title. I wanted it to have a double meaning for when it was read out as well.
So it could be either Right or Write. Clearly I am a fool.