Recorded on North Stradbroke Island off the coast of Brisbane in Australia in 1998 this tape was originally released on my old tape label Wire Bridge packaged in a small book of paintings and drawings. It was then reissued alongside Sirens as a single CD by Last Visible Dog in 2005.
I was working part time doing kitchen work and had maybe the best lifestyle happening that I've ever achieved. We'd somehow scored a flat with very cheap rent and I had hours every day to walk around the stunning tropical beaches and wild rock headlands, go swimming and bodysurfing, fishing and still have time left over for recording and painting. I don't know why we ever left!
There seemed to be a lot of acid around in those days and psychedelics were still a big part of my life and what I considered my spirituality at the time. I remember being obsessed with trying to crack the 'code' of the landscape at this time, tried to learn to read the shapes of ridge lines and horizons like a text. Not in a grand sense I hasten to add- but more like divining from tea leaves- reading ones own sub-conscious through the act of attempting to read in itself.. I was quite serious about it at the time. Haha.
William S Burroughs died while I was recording this record. He'd been something of a hero of mine- one of those that I considered 'total artists'- people who were totally committed to following the magical understanding of art to its occasionally disturbing conclusion. I recorded the track 'A Majoun Trail' in memory of him and also his notoriety for making the best hashish candies in Tangiers.
Out the Window and Away- the closing track- was recorded as part of an imagined sound track for a supernatural western that I never quite got around to writing.

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