We have a new single coming out called TANG . Its from an album that will be released 11-11-22 on Compact Disc and digitally called IN A MISTLY.
Yes, 11-11-22. We thought about industry standards of release
times for vintage players, (or any kind of player) was it too soon for us to bring out an album? Was it
the right time of year?
11th-11th – Gough Whitlam dismissed and Ned Kelly Hanged!Perfect TANG!
I wrote it during the long Melbourne lockdown when Clare Moore and I were doing regular online shows - 130 to date - and churning through a lot of material. It really kept us in shape for playing and learning, adapting, arranging, writing and recording music.
I started out with two chords, a C and an F. Both containing B and E notes in them. Then I worked out a change from A# to Ab to A and the chords wanted to be played in a really "new wave" style . All down strokes wth the pick. On the beat. I had been playing my guitar with an MXR Phase 100 pedal as I really wanted to get the sound that Keith Richard had on the Stones album Some Girls in 1977/8. That was their reaction to punk and their last really great album.
I thought it should have a really propulsive, straight ahead beat like those 70s German new wave bands and the bass a lot like the early Cure.
We started to rehearse it with our band, the mistLY, but the travel restrictions got in the way of rehearsing, let alone recording. In 2021 we started recording but this was one of a bunch of songs that needed a band approach. Guitar, drums, bass and vocals. So we didn't try it for the album we made that year - last year - Everything Was Funny - as that was more about songs than a sound. More about recording experimentation as well.
At the end of the year the travel restrictions eased and we booked a couple of days at Soundpark. It was mid December and everybodys availability was then being caught up with seasonal things, as they do at that time. So it turned out that not everybody in the band was available and the studio was also being heavily booked into the following year as well (as people came out of lockdown in the same state of mind - eager to record) but I was writing more songs all the time and I just wanted to get stuff down so Clare Moore and I went in and recorded a lot of material with drums, guitars and bass and vibes and piano.
TANG was one of the songs from that session.
In late March we got together with Stu and Stuart and recorded four songs for the album. Four that we had first rehearsed a year or two previously.
Mastered by Gerry McGough.
Cover image by Tony Mahony. A new wave beat with fuzzed and clean guitars.
Worrying, dischordant chords phased and downstroked. Chorused bass. Blocked piano.
Upbeat though, full of mad energy. Tang! “all tanged up! Nowhere to go! The mouth all silted up! Closed!” Whats it about? Screen life. Screened life. Virtualized stuff. “TANG - loaded up with TANG
tanged to the gills
but I ain’t in the water
I’m in the TANG - full of TANG”
Written by Dave Graney. - Copyright Control First single from the 2022 rock album IN A MISTLY which is to be released 11-11-22.
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