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KALEIDONAUTS
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10.08.08KALEIDONAUTS: Kris & Smally On The Making Of “Tigermouse”1 Seed Smally: "Seed" originally began as just that - a seed of a line that I had stuck in my brain that "the apple bites back". One afternoon round about the mid-point of writing the record I had a bit of time to kill so I wrote and recorded a song called "The Apple Bites Back" - it wasn't really meant as a Tigermouse track, more a stupid little song to fill some space with all the music you can hear on "Seed", and layers of vocal melodies singing throwaway lines like "I think this time I bet you wish ...
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09.11.08KALEIDONAUTS – TigermouseOut Today!KALEIDONAUTS: TigermouseFREE download today from the Quixodelic Store link at the top of the site (from approx 10pm UK time)It's a long story but I'll endeavour to keep it as brief as possible as there will no doubt be plenty more said about "Tigermouse" in due course. It began with a Jon of The Atom/Wheelies collaboration in January 2007. Mid-2007 we tried to get a Daydream Collective mass-international collaboration off the ground, trading tracks across the oceans, but there just wasn't enough wind in the sails and it died a death before it had even begun. Little did we ...
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09.09.08KALEIDONAUTS – TigermouseThis week...The completely unanticipated follow-up to "Spaniard":KALEIDONAUTS - Tigermousemore info to follow
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08.11.08KALEIDONAUTSKALEIDONAUTSKaleidonauts are a transatlantic recording project with members based in the USA and the UK. Its origins can be traced back to a case of writer's block in January 2007 when Smally was recording The Wheelies "Respun" album and asked the other bands at Cozy Home Records if anybody had any old instrumentals he could use. This was to produce "I Did Acid With Caroline" (later just "Caroline") with Jon of The Atom from The New Wave Dirt/Dead Canaries.Throughout 2007 they collaborated on further songs on JOTA's Dead Canaries project ("Thank My Stars", "Moths Flying At The Bug Zapper", "Tree-Sloth", and "It's ...