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KALEIDONAUTS
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08.07.08Jon Of The Atom & Smally Discuss The Making Of “Spaniard”Roll It Up Smally: This song was originally recorded a long time before the concept of an album had entered our heads, probably as far back as March of 2007. Jon sent me the music and asked me to "Caroline" it. After I did the original vocals it gathered dust in our gmail accounts, but in September while trying to put together a "Daydream Collective" for the Daydream Generation I dug it up and sent it onto Warchalking to see if he could add some backing vocals. The song itself is about being able to collaborate on records like this over ...
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08.07.08KALEIDONAUTS – LyricsRoll It Up The sun sets on my side/The rain falls on your side/Somewhere in the middle we meet/Your head's in the sky/With flickering eyes/I just sit there and shuffle my feet/On an old magic bench/That's been there for centuries/In the shadows of separate streets/If we can't stand up/Then we'll sit here in the picture picking out the pretty girls that we loved/Til the sun comes up/And we're stuck inside a sleepy silence of dreams painted shut/Then stagger on homewards in opposite directions/Looking for lovely drugs/ You sing "love, love, love"/I'd like to roll it up and smoke it/Bet it's ...
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04.15.08
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04.08.08KALEIDONAUTS “I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard (Mine Died)”Well I always said from the outset that the Daydream Generation was not going to be a "vanity" project. But erm, fuck it.In September of 2007 I put out feelers to find out if anyone wanted to contribute to a "Daydream Collective" recording project. The response was pretty good, but unfortunately the practicalities of coordinating such a potentially chaotic adventure was a step too far - even for my strange head. So while this was going on, in the background I was slowly but surely putting together a collaboration record with the legendary Jon of the Atom (started as far back as January 2007), ...