SIGNS OF LIFE

This blog has been asleep for so long I can't come up with any other excuse than that time just flew by and other things happened. Business as usual, then.

I've noticed that some links are dead, which indeed demands correction. I plan to deal with this in the coming weeks, but then again, I've made promises before without being able to keep them, so don't expect too much...

There are some new "bootlegs" in the making, similar in concept to the "Time Vaults" set by Pangolin. In other words, more rehearsals and live tapes found in the closet some six months ago. Sound quality varies but there are a few tapes I think are worth hearing just the same.

On a completely different note, I was shocked to hear about Captain Beefheart's passing not long ago. He's a true hero of mine, and although it was obvious he'd never return to music making, his death brought me down. So many great talents are gone now.

Anyway, I'm still here and hopefully you are too.

Take care,
Peter

"LOST ALBUM" NOW AVAILABLE

"Sombre Trust" is finally available for download! It's an album of 15 songs found in the closet and forgotten about. Recorded some time in 1999 and 2000 (some parts of it might have been recorded even earlier), it should have been the follow-up to "Through My Ghost". A decade later you can find it here.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Things are moving here again! First of all I have updated the Hens' Teeth section - five previously unreleased song. As usual, they can be found here (scroll down to the end of the post). There are now fifteen Hens' Teeth available for download, and I'm beginning to think it's getting a bit unwieldy. I sometimes think that perhaps I should collect all tracks posted up to now as one single download, but that might give someone the feeling it's a proper album which it isn't. It is just a bunch of wildly disparate songs. Anyway.

The second new installment here is a compilation of Pangolin rehearsal. It's called "Time Vaults" - spot the reference! Those who fancy primitive recordings to outcrude any old garage band have to check that one out. Grab it here and read all about it. For the first time, I have included a cover in the rar file. I'm not sure it will work properly when you print it - I don't have much experience of pixels & centimeters, so please let me know if it could be done better. The cover is, as you'll see, a shameless tribute to bootlegs of the olden days.

That's all for now. It's 6.30 in the morning and I have a strange feeling I should go to bed.

MYSPACE SPACED OUT

MySpace keeps giving me a hard time. I just can't get it to work, it just behaves so strange. I wish I could reply to comments but it doesn't seem to work. Must be a cosmic bug. So, if anyone comes from there to here, apologies if it seems I don't care about comments because I do.

RAIDING THE ARCHIVES!

The heavy, creaking iron door moaned, and with a wave of my hand, I removed the dangling cobwebs sticking to my face. At the end of the long corridor, I found a sealed, heavy box. I wiped the moist off it, broke the lock and opened the box. There, inside, were rows of tapes, stored safely from intruders, forgotten by time. Hours and hours of unreleased Peter Scion recordings right before my eyes.

Well, actually, I opened the closet door and with some effort, I took down a cardboard box which indeed contained several hours of unreleased material. I had forgotten what a lot of it actually was; there were 4 track masters, rehearsal tapes, live recordings and outtakes, all in one jumbled up hodge-podge of tiny plastic boxes from the days before mp3's. The most striking find must be an entire, previously unreleased album recorded around 2000. I had a faint notion of some of the songs, but I was far from sure there were so many that they make up a whole album. I am already in the process of digitalizing the tapes, and this album will be made available in the near future here on the blog.

The rest of the material, spread over an amount of circa 70 tapes will also be released, at least in parts. Some of it has less than acceptable sound quality, but some of it sounds OK. I'm quite excited about these discoveries, and it will be a pleasure to share the best of them with you!

"GENTLY JOHNNY" ON YOUTUBE

Thanks to "strange137", my recording of "Gently Johnny" (as found on "Devachan") is up on Youtube. I had no idea someone had posted it until my fiance told me about it. Appreciation goes out to strange137 for spreading my music!

TREE MUSIC WEBSIDE DEAD...?

It seems that the original Peter Scion website, Tree Music, has gone down. I wasn't the web master, and I have no idea what happened, perhaps Yahoo pulled it for some reason. Anyway, as it seems, this blog will be the main source for information on my past (but not very likely present) doings. At least until I figure out what happened.

It's a bit sad if it actually is defunct, because all my lyrics were kept there, plus plenty of other written work, and due to a number of reasons, I have no other copies of it... (And before you point it out to me: I know, it's stupid of me not to keep a better backup of my own work.)