Dave Graney - digital album - HASHISH - (2005) plus extra digital single only releases from 2013
Dave Graney - digital album - HASHISH - (2005) plus extra digital single only releases from 2012/13
Originally released as a double disc with Clare Moore's disc "Liquor". HASHISH and LIQUOR. Available here as a standalone set with several digital only releases from 2012-2013.
players involved Graney, guitars , bass Moore, drums, keyboards, vibraphone, melodica Mark Fitzgibbon, piano Stuart Perera, electric guitar Warren Ellis, violin, flute Stuart Thomas, bass
Recorded at the Ponderosa by Graney and Moore. Engineered by Graney and Moore. Produced by Graney and Moore. Invaluable assistance in editing and mixing and by Bill Miller
My schtick weighs a ton recorded, played and mixed by Greg den Hartog and Dee at Prolific Music.
Front cover, another hand made Tony Mahony collage. Thousands of tiny pieces of coloured paper styled into and around the image.
"I loved making this album.Started with what became "my schtick weighs a ton" being cooked up by Greg Den Hartog. Then a friend called saying he had some studio time as part of a course and needed a band to make the sounds for his skills to be tested on. I thought it wouldbe cool approach it like a "Jazz workshop" type thing. A one off event. So I called Mark Fitzgibbon and the next day Clare and I went into the studio with him. I played the bass. That was for "I will have always been here before", "I've got dimensions", "Mr Bad Luck" and "there he goes with his eye out". All pretty much improvised and played out on the spot. Then I did the vocals. No editing later on. I took the raw tracks home and mixed them, adding a few guitar licks here and there. The other tracks were all done at our studion, the Ponderosa. Warren Ellis contributed violin to I WANNA GET LOST AGAIN from Paris via the internet. Also flute on I WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE BEFORE and plucked mandolin on SATURDAY NIGHT BATH".
My favourite lyrical moment..."I will be folding a mirror - infinitely- in such a studied way I must've done it a thousand times before! " (I will have always been here before)"
clip for MY SCHTICK WEIGHS A TON