give everyone you meet a melon

a mock turtle/tarofonika production (c) 2004

track listing

1 make your own fun                       5:07        audio     907Kb

2 dogman                                       4:48       audio   1.2Mb

3 veerst opa'i vindera                       4:24        audio   1.8Mb   

4 asleep at the wheel of life             0:36        audio   239Kb

5 ... and my heart beats                  5:19        audio   4.9Mb complete

6 seagulls in the perpetual ocean     3:51        audio   1.3Mb

7 give everyone you meet a melon    3:14        audio   801Kb

processing, collage, double bass, piano(4), robot cellists & voice(7), production & design : rick foot

vocal samples (1, 3, 4, 5) karin karian   vocal & guitar samples (2, 6) paul yeung
guitar sample (3) arnie cottrell   drum sample (2) andy trim

additional samples on track 1 :
tom waits filipino box spring hog marilyn crispell rhythms hung in undrawn sky holly cole jersey girl

all compositions by rick foot except 1 (karian/foot) & 2 (yeung/foot)
track 5 incorporates the tarofonika remix of algorhythm[joel maclellan]'s immanence (www.algorhythmz.com)

all tracks copyright control 2004 MCPS/PRS

thanks to karin, paul, andy, arnie & joel
and to ross bencina for his audiomulch software www.audiomulch.com

MAKE YOUR OWN FUN
this is the earliest track here, dating from 2 or 3 years ago, a reworking of one of karin's songs -
you'll have to check out her forthcoming solo album (www.karinkarian.com) to see what she intended
savage drum loop from tom waits filipino box spring hog; piano solo chopped & reconstructed out of
marilyn crispell rhythms hung in undrawn sky; backing vocals somewhere in the middle from
holly cole jersey girl

DOGMAN
this is version 2 ... its predecessor lacked the central groove section
the peerless mr yeung's spontaneously improvised narrative was approximately recorded to minidisc
a couple of years ago. its time has come ... revised groove includes drum sample from andy trim

VEERST OPA'I VINDERA   beneath the garden of mechanical birds
this might be a traditional song from SE Asia, sung in a relatively obscure hindustani dialect; or it might not.
guitar loop fragment courtesy of arnie cottrell. mechanical birdsong produced by realtime processing of the
central bleep loop through the granulab granulator

GIVE EVERYONE YOU MEET A MELON
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