Available now for download :
http://store.keneally.com/products/m...demos-download
Mike says :
"This is a quick note to let you know we've made a new downloadable album available - Dancing Demos. This is a nine-song, 37-minute collection of the demos I recorded in 2000 to distribute to the members of Beer For Dolphins, prior to beginning the rehearsals for the album Dancing.
I did these demos, with Scott Chatfield engineering, at Chatfield Manor. These are extremely stripped down, but they aren't just one-man, live on-the-spot renditions - some songs have both guitar and keyboard parts on them, and there are some vocal harmonies present as well. Some of the tracks feature some spoken instructions as to what I'm thinking about different parts of the songs (eg. the "Stravinsky" section of "Lhai Sal") and some additional music, chordal approaches and melodic ideas that didn't make it into the final versions.
Scott found these essentially lost recordings a few months ago, and I had exactly zero recollection of having made them! I find them to be rewarding listening, and they actually reminded me of some of my original and subsequently abandoned musical ideas that I'd like to re-institute the next time I approach these pieces for performance.
The download also features an 8-page digital booklet, handsomely designed by Atticus Wolrab, featuring newly written liner notes, as well as a letter I wrote to the members of BFD at the time (which accompanied the CD of these demos which I sent to them). The letter is a good window into my mental processes at the time regarding what Dancing was supposed to become (including the listing of a running order which is quite different from what eventually happened).
All in all, a rewarding archeological dig for aficionados. And a mere seven bucks for an album length download (back when albums were forty minutes long, more or less). I hope you enjoy the holy heck out of it!"
As always with every MK release, I get all Pavlovian, me. I shall be downloading this asap, with depraved abandon.
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