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Modes, Timbres & Other Sonic Hues

by Errol Nomad and the Random Tandem

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Two spry young tars came home from the sea Each looking for a maid when they met with sisters three The tars had pluck and courage and the grit for long endurance They had tested out their mettle in the cruellest of God’s elements Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows! The captain warned his boys not to spend their shilling On meaningless pleasures like girls who were not willing But these three sisters had appetites of huge proportions For food and drink and daring-do that the ordinary whore shuns Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows! The sisters kept them busy and the tars were not complaining Till the money all was spent and no love was left remaining The sailors’ purses emptied in less than a week And on the day of rest they were too tired even to speak Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows! Returning to the quayside the tars slipped straight aboard To head back out to Greenland by the time the ice had thawed The wind was fair and true as they rais-ed up full sail Each tar had sought a maiden but now he’d take a whale Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows!
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We had our days We had our days in the sun We were the children of the chosen ones We had a life We had a life full of fun But now it’s time to leave it all behind us Coz everything changes Nothing ever really stays the same Yes everything changes Even the deepest feelings go away
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The badger’s alright He comes out at twilight All black and white Just a brock in the night Don’t you wish you could be a badger too? Hiding from the sun and dancing in the moon Everybody wants to be a badger Just a brock in the night Badgers aren’t grey They’re not around in the day They don’t care what you say Not a brock in the day – but a brock in the night Don’t you wish you could be a badger too? Hiding from the sun and dancing in the moon Everybody wants to be a badger Just a brock in the night
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It was a stormy day in Liverpool Bay As the Viking fleet headed home They pitched and yawed in the thund’rous roar Their sails grew tattered and torn As they headed home Headed home Headed home Headed home on a stormy day They’d traded with the Irish for livestock and hides For gold, tin and copper with the Cornish Celts They had solid blocks of salt from the Cheshire mines And fleeces from the foothills of the Welsh Then they’d headed home Headed home Headed home Headed home on a stormy day The nine daughters of the waves were the billow maidens Who wildly danced through that winter night Their mother, Rán, had her drowning net with her And the sky was filled with fire As they headed home Headed home Headed home Headed home on a stormy night The swell was huge and the sky was grim On the mighty surge Rán pulled them in As drunk old Ægir stirred the briny broth He smashed the fleet apart on the Wirral rocks And took nine score young warriors back To a grave beneath the waves To drink golden mead in the coral caves Of Runcorn Gap
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Last night I said these words to my girl “You know, you don’t even try I’ve had enough of your lazy ways It’s long past time for you to say goodbye” “You don’t please me Like you used to You don’t please me any more” I changed the number on my SIM card I changed the lock on my front door I took back my car keys And said that thing that I’d put off so many times before I said “You don’t please me Like you used to You don’t please me any more” She’s had her day in the sun I took her around the world as my companion She thought that she’d got it made But last night I told her she’d be on her way I said “You don’t please me Like you used to You don’t please me anymore”
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All tracks recorded at Crash, Liverpool between 2009-2011

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released June 16, 2014

Pete Jinks - guitar, vocals, percussion
Pete Muldoon - acoustic and electric bass
Andy Fernihough - drums, percussion
Martin Smith - trumpet, flugelhorn on tracks 1, 3, 8 and 9
Ash Lerczak - additional guitar on tracks 2,3, 4 and 8
Paul Carroll - additional guitar on track 5, sound effects on track 6

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Pete Jinks Runcorn, UK

Pete Jinks studied guitar and bass at London's ICMP. He previously led the exploratory outfit Errol Nomad and the Random Tandem. Currently releasing new material under his own name, still mixing the exploratory and the mainstream.

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