Or stroking the hair of your daughters
... what a line. This is funny and scary at the same time.

I dont notice the guitar hiss, but a noise gate or hi cut filter may help.

Your work is really getting better and better JC, as is the production.

Cant wait for the next album!

steve

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about the next album, you'll have one as soon as it's done.



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Your vocals sound like a B Side of The Cure's Head On The Door with Ray Manzarek playing keys. I agree with Steve that your songs and production skills are always getting better and better, but I disagree that you are deranged. Re-ranged maybe, but never de-ranged. I listen to 2005's Album of the year "Fantaste" and it still rips my scalp off my boney skull and makes me think of the things to come. A groundbreaking endeavor.

Twenty two years of stalking you is a romantic idea. I don't see a weirdness as much as I see a sense of commitment. It's an undying love scenario and I find it very romantic. Shaking hands with your lovers proves it, and the stroking the hair of your daughters lyric doesn't necessarily suggest anything naughty - it's another one of your clever double meanings that indict the interpreter.

I love the Thomas Edison snippet at the end of the song. Goes hand in hand with your Monkeyshines reference (I think Breezer missed your comment).

And I didn't hear a guitar hiss. I heard another excellent BK Sound guitar that blended perfectly with this relaxed vocal performance.

Mrs Daley must be proud.

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is a cure B-side !

I don't think the vocals is really relaxed, though. I'm not used to sing slow songs, and whereas anything goes on quick numbers, you can really get ridiculous on ballad stuff, and I was afraid I'd make a fool of myself on this one.

Thanks for your support.

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intriguing song - very original and thought-provoking. Extremely well performed and produced. I can hear the hiss at the beginning of the song. I had the same problem with my mic - ended up buying a new one to solve it.
Cheers
Len



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Actually I don't mind the hissing that much. This song can be a bit a rough, like the f***ed-up love/wedding song that it is.

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a Hamlet Machines ballad? friggin awesome. it's almost like Iggy Pop got the Cure to back him up on the Soldier record. i really like this one a lot. you're voice sounds great in this setting.

this is just sick enough. needs to be in a movie. i really like the flute sound and the organ in the chorus. one of your best.

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Yes,not really our genre. And difficult to do.

The cure helped, a bit, indeed. I recently realized the chorus arrangement were dim memories of "the top" one of their most sick and underrated album, where they used this kind of panflute and organ sounds.

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I don't know another word I would use for this. Interesting. Freakin'interesting.
Don't feel bad.

Great stuff!
Dave

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you find this interesting

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This is very nicely done. Great guitar sound - I really don't see the hissing as a major issue. Your vocal is terrific, and you deliver those clever, intriguing lyrics with great expressiveness. I like it. Nice work. Peace.

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I'm in no way a singer, but I tried to compensate with a little acting. Glad it did for you.

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I kinda like your delivery and the creepy yet poignant 'mary had a little lamb' bit on the end - somehow I get the idea that this part is one of the earliest recordings ever made... as if it matters. Fucking bravo!

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Yes, it is supposed to be first recording ever. A little tribute to Edison, the man who, in Pere Ubu's David Thomas' words, has invented rock'n'roll.

Thanks for the princely comment.

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of shaking hands with your lovers / or stroking the hair of your daughters...

Is it weird that I want to sing this?

The way you sing "oh I don't feel bad" is perfect. I love the flutey sound, and that music break in the middle --I love it!

Great, great song, but I don't know about that little lamb ending...the cover art, however, is fantastic! as spooky and mysterious as the song is.

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the cover art is a painting called "the skirt" by belgian artist Michael Borremans. The image on the "secret keepers" page is also by him.

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you dont feel bad.. Oh by the way the deraangement is almost a fly caught in a web allright its caught. I dont know if mary's lamb realy follows her!!

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if mary really loved the lamb.

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your music always has a way of hooking me in within the first couple of seconds. Basically your songs have me at hello. Anyway, amazing song here. It has a unique combination of being creepy yet somehow meaningful.

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Hello, then.

Thanks a lot for commenting.

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I think the guitar and the beat are really groovy... It catch me, while listening.... The vocals in the "oh i don't feel bad...", sounds great with the fx's on it....

Great to hear this song.....

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I wouldn't sing without FXs, anyway.

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I like that minor key Hamlet Machine groove, The vocals sound real good up front...great song guys!

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I love the pre-punk vibe of this song! It's very cool! Thanks so much for making it available! Nice job.

Stacey

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