you were deep inside that thought: (strangely)(emotional) track by track and Live Dates happening from this weekend.

<a href="https://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/album/dave-graney-and-clare-moore-strangely-emotional">Dave Graney and Clare Moore (strangely)(emotional) by Dave Graney and Clare Moore</a>

Our friend Barry Adamson did a remix of a track from (strangely)(emotional). I gave him a playlist of the songs and asked him to choose one to work on and he picked I Said No To Myself. Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett did amazing backing vocals on the song and Barry took the rhythm instruments out from the start to just lead it in with those beautiful vocals. Will Hindmarsh also put together a video clip from various clips I gave him. Shots of us over the last few years in Sydney, Kiama, Ulverstone Tasmania, Darwin and Port Campbell in Victoria. Thanks Will and thank you Barry!

We did a great interview with Glenn Williams at MAINFM in Castlemaine about the album. He asked us a lot about our film music work which was nice.

Excellent interview with Dave Graney by Giacomo Bianchino for THE STRAYING MORSEL.

Some notes on the songs on (strangely)(emotional)

All instruments played by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Dave Graney, guitars, bass, autoharp, harmonica, vocals.
Clare Moore, drums, vibes, keys, percussion, backing vocals.

Joined by Shane Reilly (Lost Ragas) pedal steel on the opening track, Dave Wray (aka Frank Bennett) on tenor and soprano sax for three songs, Genevieve Fry on harp on one song, Will Hindmarsh (aka Twinkledigitz) and Emily Jarrett on backing vocals on two songs and Catherine McQuade, bass and mixing on another.
Mastered by beats / hip hop producer and drummer Plutonic Lab who had collaborated with Dave Graney on the homage track GRACE TAME IS PRESIDENT in 2022.

Back In A Day
Dave Graney vocals, guitar
Shane Reilly, pedal steel

Drop D tuning. I hear people say "back in the day" and often wonder what day they are talking about. The song says "better to say back in a day..."

Family Gatherings I
Dave Graney, nylon and steel string guitar, bass, vocals.
In open D tuning. A song about my uncles and aunties and their kids-my cousins-all visitng for a few years when I was a boy.

My Cancellation Came Through
Dave Graney, nylon string guitar, vocals
Clare Moore, keys,
Dave Wray, soprano sax

Open G tuning. Just a whimsical song about getting cancelled and the peace and quiet that would come with being in that state.

Creative Creep
Dave Graney, steel string acoustic guitar, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, bass drum, percussion
Dave Wray, soprano and tenor sax, congas

A vintage drum machine and kick drum beat with keys, sax and acoustic guitars. Swinging like a ragtime pop tune. “Don’t fence me in! And get in too! Let me be! Let me be! A creative creep! Ya standin’ too close to the flames!”

I kept hearing about all sorts of "creep" in economic reportage. I also kept hearing about "creatives" and the like. Talking about real estate agents and advertising people.
Also cooks and wedding planners. Brian Wilsons father, Murry, did box him in the ears.

Love Story
Dave Graney, electric guitar, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, piano, percussion
Dave Wray, soprano sax, congas

Thanks to Dave Wray for playing so much great sax, again! Lyrically talking about first romantic and sexual struggles.

I Said No To Myself
Dave Graney, electric guitar, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, percussion
Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett, backing vocals.

I am in awe of people with self discipline and the ability to keep to personal plans , diets and exercize regimes. A song about an inner voice, and who it is speaking to. Or who is speaking? Or who is hearing?

Ice Bergman
Dave Graney, electric guitar, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, drums, vibes, percussion

Recorded at the sessions for In A Mistly. Written and played a few times during our 140 Lockdown live streaming shows. A swinging jazz R&b groover 6/8 time . The chorius is "I'm gonna be old in the end times" but I didn't want to call it that and Clare came up with the Bermanesque title. Or Iceberg-esque title?

They Walk Among Us
Dave Graney, electric guitar, vocals
Clare Moore, drums, organ, percussion, backing vocals
Catherine McQuade, bass and backing vocals.

Recorded at the sessions for In A Mistly. I intended it to be a short instrumental theme to be used a few times like "Night Theme" on Iggy Pop' and James Williamsons's KILLCITY album. I kept hearing and seeing "sovereign citizens" yelling across the internet fields. I wrote a lyric about "florin entities/bitcoin buddies/shilling villagers, guinea townfolk..." etc . We had worked on a soing with Catherine McQuade and she offered to mix a track and this is whaat happened. She played bass and sang B/Vs and mixed it.

He's Talkin' To His Base
Dave Graney, six and twelve string electric guitar, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, percussion.

I had been working on this since the first Trump election and finally found an album for it to land on. A lot of guitars, using an R&B chord shape that Stuart Perera showed me.

I'll Cluster It
Dave Graney, electric guitar, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, percussion

Possibly the most actual (strangely)(emotional) track. Music worked out from a 2012 track called KING OF THE DUDES. I added some more guitars and Clare put some keys down. Lots of gutteral sounds. Lyrically talking about very personal stuff. I dont mean emotions (though it is strangely emotional) , I mean habitual ways of behaving and seeing the world. Patterns and clusters. "I put all my clusters in a row/ I'm neat/ I like patterns..." "walk out of the door-any door/ and turn right. No! the gate! That's the way into town from my old place..."

I'm Already Missing The Lockdown
Dave Graney, nylon string acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals
Clare Moore, piano, percussion

Open G tuning. My old nylon string guitar. One of several songs alluding to the pandemic and its attendant lockdowns. We had about seven in Melbourne. An incredible moment that everybody on earth shared. So many things happened. In Australia, it included a trial run of a Universal Basic Income. So many things were revealed to us!

Poor Covid
Dave Graney, electric guitars, vocals
Clare Moore , synth bass, keys

I thought the title sounded like an old folk song. Like Tam Lin from Fairport Convention. I thought I could write a song being sympathetic to Covid. In some ways like NAS voiced a gun on his early song I GAVE YOU POWER. A cool beat from Clares Ensonix MR61 keyboard and a bluesy groove frm my guitar Some squelchy synth coming in at the end.

You Were Gaslit For This
Dave Graney, six and twelve string electriic guitars, bass, vocals
Clare Moore,piano, percussion
Will Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett, backing vocals

A song built up from a drum loop I found on the sessions for The Dave Graney Show album which we did in 1998. I played a suspended chord on electric twelve string and Clare played that Hitchcok Movie sounding descending run on the piano. I ddoubled that on another guitar and then spent a few nights playing with some delay pedals on the guitars. I also flew in some of Will and Emilys vocals from I Said No and effected those as well. We recorded the coda on realk drums and guitars and I tried to get it to merge or morf into that.

Madly, Softly, Hardly
Dave Graney, electric and acoustic guitar, bass, autoharp, vocals
Clare Moore, vibes, drums, percussion
Genevieve Fry, harp

Drop D tuning. We kept writing and forgetting entire songs during this last few years of Covidly affected interior life. I kept working on this. Lyrically its a long story. A nine or ten minute song. You should listen to it. A song about getting older and mad fevers of nostalgia that get into a person. And all the time you are losing sharpness and power to see or feel or understand.
When we begaan to tour again oiutside of Melbourne we drove into Qld and NSW in our van. At one point a gig was blown out and we didn't want to drive back to Melbourne so we found a FARM STAY and put up our tent by the side of a river at Port Macquarrie. We stayed there for about five days. I kept hearing a particular bird call and tried to record it on my ZOOM. The birds and insect sounds that open and close the track (along with beautiful harp ny Genevieve Fry) come from that moment.

Family Gatherings II
Dave Graney, nylon and steel string acoustic guitars, bass, vocals
Clare Moore, keys, percussion
Dave Wray, soprano sax, congas

Two versions of this song on the album. This has more instruments and lyrics. I kept working on this and one day Clare said she preferred it as just acoustic guitar and voice so thats how it first appears. Then it returns with more musical colouring. Rather like we opened our 1997 album THE DEVIL DRIVES with Clare's instrumental song THE OBLIVION SEEKERS and then ended it with my lyrics added as it became the title track.

I started a SUBSTACK for different kinds of writing and content.

Its called Players Please.

Playing shows

May 3rd Agrestic Grocer, Orange NSW https://theagresticgrocer.yapsody.com/event/index/806127/live-agrestic-dave-graney-clare-moore

May 4th Baroque Room, Katoomba https://events.humanitix.com/fbdaveclarebaroque

May 5th Stag And Hunter, Newcastle https://stagandhunter.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/506df3f2-87c3-4886-b1e5-5c820ecf986d

May 10th Lyric Lane , Maylands Perth https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/cde423b8-dc29-4cef-b7ea-c31160848d0f

May 11th Duke Of George East Fremantle https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/dave-graney-clare-moores-album-strangelyemotional/163211

May 18th Northern Arts Hotel , Castlemaine https://events.humanitix.com/graney-and-moore

Thursday May 30th The Bearded Lady, Brisbane
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/dave-graney-clare-moore-new-album-strangelyemotional-brisbane-tickets-884680612527

Friday 31^st May the Majestic Theatre, Pomona Qld

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1210325