Again, I thought it was a pretty good song (though the lyrics are a bit embarrassing now, to be honest). But I always wanted to digitally freeze the vocals, something I simply couldn't afford back in the day. This time I got a cheap freeze pedal, but then discovered that it didn't cut out the original input. After spending far too long fruitlessly attempting to mod it to do this, I used a brute force approach of recording it, shutting off the input and then editing out the mixed part. With razorblades. None of your fancy DAW editing here. Crude, but effective. Listen carefully to the end of the last one and you'll hear the tape slipping as the recorder was shut off. I decided to leave that in just for kicks.
As mentioned, the other big change was adding the intro, which was actually inspired by a very old demo of the song when I wasn't entire sure where the babbling should go. I liked how it sounded and decided that it would make a good intro if I ever revisited the song.
lyrics
Return to Babel
(Original recording appears on 'A Day at the People Factory', 2005)
He
He loves
He loves to see you
He loves to see you suffer
He wanna see you suffer
We suffer
We
We will
We will return
We will return to Babel
Return to Babel
Return to Babel
I
I come
I come to claim you
I come to claim you, human
I claim you, human
I come to claim you
supported by 6 fans who also own “Return to Babel (2014)”
"There is lambswool under my naked feet..." - those words always come to my mind while listening to the first bars of "Wide Of The Mark". There's undoubtedly quite some "Genesis" heritage to be found in the music on this album. However, the band that is most closely related to "The ID" is certainly "IQ", which is among the favorite bands and artists named by both Peter Albrektsen (gtr, kbd) and Tim Pepper (v, kbd). So the similarity of the names "ID" vs. "IQ" is obviously not purely coincidental. Being a long-time admirer of the creative output of "IQ", this album inevitably reaches my heart. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
The hard-hitting, genre-agnostic songs on the latest from Dan Webb were inspired by conversations he had with a wide range of musicians. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 18, 2023
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With its debut album, this young band from Vienna follows the footsteps of honorable Austrian prog masters like "Matter Of Taste". The music on this concept album is not of the kind I'd call particularly innovative - it travels pretty much on well known roads paved by many others long ago. However, these youngsters do it in a highly pleasant way, skillfully avoiding the pitfalls of pseudo-progressive phrase rehashing most of the time - certainly more successfully so than several of their experienced grand paragons of prog. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)