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Stuffsuckerposer

Sorry Simon. This had to be said.

There, of course, is a reason for everything/anything. Or so it would seem.

I contend some thing occur by chance.

For my whatever birthday my family all chipped in to buy a vacuum cleaner as a result of my wishing for one. For once I got what I wanted.

It was a fantastic piece of machinery. With an adjustable power regulator I could pretty much decide how hard this thing sucked. And I’m telling you this thing sucked.

Until I moved to live at FMV. I had just quit my job, given notice on my apartment and decided to live in my studio. Which was a concrete module building, filled with moisture, evil contaminated wharf-fumes from a time when, well, questions weren’t welcome. If the boss told you to dig a hole and fill it, you did.

This environment didn’t pass too well on my vacuum cleaner. Or on anything really. I had a cast-iron mortar black metal style which, by the time I moved out after eleven moths was all red with rust.

Thing is: With my gift of vacuum cleaner followed only one pack of wastebags or whatever so I ran out. Which meant I had to buy new. Which I did, but they didn’t fit so I tried to cut them to fit. They didn’t fit but I got the thing going. Full throttle for about five minutes, the machine went up a pitch. Then there was an immediate stench of burning rubber, a flash and everything went black. I haven’t dared tell my family.

Anyway, it’s a coincidence and it’s in no way romantic. Bags, as in wastebags, are called poser in norwegian. And vacuum cleaner is called støvsuger. suger is sucks. Støv is dust which in a way is stuff. And there is more. It’s in the open, you figure it.

Ergo vacuumcleanerbags = stuffsuckerposer

Sometimes stuff sucks. Some things are there to suck. Live with it.

It’s all good.

 
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Happy Buoy featuring Isabella Leroy

A version Isabella Leroy and I recorded in Silvertone the summer of -05 I believe. Kind of an act of haste in retrospect, we planned to record 7 songs in two days, the session still has its moments.

For instance a lengthy discussion with the studio owner whether the title Spend Some Words could pass as correct english. And as always the perfect pitch of Isabella, always on the money. Though I feel on this particular track the technicians seem a little too infatuated. Not much guitar here.

Still. Here it is, it is what it is and it’s live.

 
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Broken Circle

This is the straight up un-effected version of a song from the last millennium. I love to sing, hate to hear it, but this ain’t all bad.

 
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Call The Cavalry

The way best way to celebrate christmas. Making music

 
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Smoother

This is a song about friendship.

Trust me, good people are out there. They probably just don’t want to be on TV.

 
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Equinox - Skrell - Live (Gleng 1990)

Yet another out-take from the Kulås-concert, playing support for the local blues-rock legends Aunt Mary. A fun but a bit odd experience. Aunt Mary, a very pleasant bunch of musicians, had quite the fan base from their heyday years in the seventies. Quite a reputation as a live-band, when they did the occasional gig, people traveled far to catch them live.

As for ourselves we were just starting to establish a following having recently released our first EP, Skrell, doing, I think, our first gig in Sarpsborg
Now, Kulås is kind of shaped as an amfi-theater but with a large, leveled bullring in front of the stage, and the stage is about 30 cm high. Long story short, you could see tumbleweed rolling over that empty space. Everyone was, of course, chillin’ in the grassy slope.

But I remember there were like ten-fifteen die-hard fans right in front of the stage, sitting I think, this was in the afternoon, and banging their heads. Good people, we had a lot of fun. Yelling in the afternoon, in public, it feels good. And that’s what all the shouting is about. Enjoy.

 
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Happy Buoy

It’s coming on.

 
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Peculiarities

This tune was actually performed by Equinox live at Klara Pub, Fredrikstad, way back in the mid-nineties and it’s just been lying in the back of my head since. I think it’s a fun piece of music. Just a raw mixdown, don’t expect major soundscapes. I know my heart is in it. Enjoy.

 
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Equinox-House Of Wonders

Live-at-gleng-1990

 
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This Is It

Me and Isabella Leroy sitting by the dry-dock at FMV in Fredrikstad the summer of -05. Recorded on a tiny BOSS harddiskrecorder using the internal mike.

Terrific weather, I just quit my job, some beer, some wine, some music will be fine.

 
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