New trackypants demo:

https://trackypants.bandcamp.com/track/empire-is-history

First recording with me playing bass guitar (Cort Artisan B4 fretless) — it’s pretty raw, yes; but gets out some of the aggression I can’t get into my voice. Vocals recorded on new microphone, the trusty SM58. The rest is all OP-1, including field recording of a piano recorded using the OP-1 microphone.

It’s about disillusion with politicians, populism and consumerist nihilism. It’s about wanting politicians to do their job and honestly represent not only their constituents, but also the planet and those beings that co-exist on it. It’s about, that this is what we all must do.
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Empire is history
and wiki wars are won
for sales and self interest
and all that is true

A tweet is twat
all channels are the same
the sounds are shouting,
sleeping, waking, living now

Sounds are true,
listening
All the lights are flicking
flashing dull

Hope is dim
but still we hope
for more than self interest

Let’s expect more from all of us for each other
Let’s expect more from all of us for each other

Engage
with the world as you fall
Disengaged
all that glitters is doubtful

Empire is history
and wiki wars are won
for sales when all is said
is all that is true

A tweet is twat
all channels are the same
the sounds are shouting,
sleeping, waking, living now

Sounds are true,
listening
All the lights are flicking
flashing dull

Hope is dim
but still we hope
for more than self interest

Let’s expect more from all of us for each other
Let’s expect more from all of us for each other