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as if (1997)

by nev clay

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IDST 02:22
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short 02:04
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You've been flirting with the Reaper, since you discovered cider at the tender age of 12.
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rails 03:13
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all change 00:17
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demons 04:33
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rest 03:55
will there be a time when I stop changing shape long enough to learn to love this mask that I'm wearing? will there be a time when you stop changing shape long enough to let me understand what you're feeling? Will there be a time when I've fallen so far I can rest for a moment and be silent?
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as if 01:04
if there's a reason for this, if there's a purpose (as if), if there's a meaning, you're it.
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all i start will end, a piece of paper and a pen all you start will end, you said we could be friends all we start will end, these broken bones will mend and then we'll break them all again

about

This album was recorded at Time studio, The Buddle, Wallsend, by Mick Lambert, between April and Dec 1997, and released under the pseudonym I'd been playing under for a couple of years, "Brenda System". Originally an unwieldy 19 tracks, of which a good friend said "it'd make a canny EP", I've trimmed it to a manageable 35 minutes and twelve tracks (plus the bells ringing in the middle). Foolishly, i didn't use a click track when i did the first take, but thanks to the sterling efforts of Phil Tyler on drums and a select cast of friends, it sort of turned out alright. There's still traces of Rufus Beer on tracks 1 and 4.
Cover photos by Jonathon Wells-Lee - the Zippo I'm holding was a gift from a friend just before he ordained as a Theravadin Buddhist monk, with the words "I won't be needing this any more".

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released January 1, 1998

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thanks to Dave Maughan for remastering this, Spring 2018

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nev clay Newcastle, UK

Nev lives near Newcastle and until 2018 was a mental health nurse. He's been clarting around the local music scene for 30 years, and once supported Keith Emerson out of ELP. Cover photo - Stan Bonnar concrete hippo, Killingworth, Newcastle, photo by Narbi Price 3 Jan 2023. Secret guitar tuning: CGDGAD ... more

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