val and i met through some incredible connection and synchronistic event, he and i were orbiting the same star but it was obvious we were destined to meet at some point in time. let me state now, val is a genius of the highest order, there is no doubt in my mind and he is perfect for me to work with as he understands my ideas completely. because i can't speak in a musical language i use metaphors very similar to eno's oblique strategies, painting soundscapes works for me and val transmutes my skeleton sketches into a body, we both use an intuitive process but val has the skills to technically delve into the details and shape the work with the breathe of life, it's all done very fast, i trust val enough that i know he will always take the song where it needs to go.
we made snuff music over about a year, a few hours here a few there, but when we work we work fast, it flows and often i'm uncertain where it's going as the whole thing is totally intuitive, sometimes drifting down a hidden tangent we never saw coming. once we get the song, we like to fuck with it, val tends to be the darker palette and i the lighter, the balance is perfect a blending of opposites. we used nevin on some guitar parts, dragged him in one night gave him some oblique strategies, no time for him to even rehearse and in the second take we recorded. my very good friend tez in the uk played that amazing guitar on 'hell' and louis played his sax like the giant he is, sometimes we took him down the end of the corridor, miked the sax up to get that echoing, haunting feel. these guys are excellent musicians, i am very grateful to have such people contribute to this project. the woman's voice is olga, val's wife, whom i dragged into the studio to do the spoken word stuff, she was great.
all in all the songs formed in this weird narrative and each one completely different part of a whole.
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