Phoney Recs, by Swagger Jack

Phoney Recs

by Swagger Jack

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1.	50,000 Miles 02:03	buy track
2.	Autumn Creek 02:13	buy track
3.	Spittle 03:07	buy track
4.	Nothing Else 01:48	buy track
5.	Work Dream 04:43	buy track
6.	A Memory In Her Pocket 03:21	buy track
7.	Can't Hold Back A Setting Sun 02:10	buy track
8.	Old Forces 03:00	buy track
9.	Dream and Reality 05:57	buy track

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CASSETTE VERSION now available from ikuisuus.bandcamp.com

Its been a long while since I recorded any music, still been playing but I drowned my last tape recorder crossing a river in the Ruahine Ranges. Discovered that I could record on the old cell phone my mum gave me and so decided to borrow another off a mate and try recording using 2 cellphones.
These were mostly done on an autumn afternoon in 2012. One layer was recorded on my knees in the bush. I got pins and needles. Then took the recording and lugged my gear to an old concrete hut up the top of the hill and recorded another layer up there cos the huts got a nice springy sound. For some of the tracks theres even more layers, playing back the built up recordings on one cell phone and recording onto the other.
I think I would prefer to get another tape recorder. The sound aint as warm as a tape.
I didn't release or even really listen to these again for a few years but a friend wanted to hear them and had a computer to edit them on so here they are.

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released March 29, 2018

Recorded 2012 with some small additions 2018
Guitar/Vocals/Banjo/Violin/Stomping/ Whistling/Coughs and Clatter and Artwork by Swagger Jack.
Pol Hill, Te Aro Aotearoa
Edited and mastered as well as possible by A.M
Thanks to Ikuisuus for the tape reissue.

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