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KALEIDONAUTS: Tigermouse

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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 know it, but at the same time the JOTA/Wheelies project was organically and accidentally becoming the very thing we were clumsily trying to create. Much has been written here on this website about the making of the first Kaleidonauts record “I Do Not Currently Own A Spaniard (Mine Died)”, but up until its release in April 2008, it was considered by everyone involved as a one-off. To anyone looking in, Kaleidonauts would bear an uncanny resemblance to Jon’s own musical manifestation, Dead Canaries. Producing, arranging, and playing most of the songs, it came from the same folk-pop-psych-experimental land of Dead Canaries earlier “Critical Mass: Flying Things Vs. Crawling Things”, and in fact, virtually all of the personnel were the same (Jon, Jane Gilmore, Katie Saul, Tim Kotch, Meghan Geiss, and myself). But it was the contribution of Warchalking on a couple of the “Spaniard” songs that would prove to be the making of this follow-up.

In the glowing aftermath of the debut Kaleidonauts offering, Kris and I began work on what we were considering to be a Warchalking/Wheelies collaboration, split down the middle, sharing songwriting, music, and lyrical duties equally, at the time under the working title of “WW”. Daily exchanges of tracks and ideas since May of this year have finally brought us to this. It wasn’t until the latter stages of the project, with the contribution of Jane Gilmore, the cover, and the glaring sound of continuity, that we all agreed that this would rightfully become another Kaleidonauts record. And so “Tigermouse” was born. Musically it is very different from “Spaniard” in many ways, but at the same time it is singing from the same page in the same book of songs. I hope you like it.

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