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Sketches Vol 2 [Expanded Edition] - Recordings from November 2012 to January 2013

by Michael Tee

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Sketch2 14:51
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Sketch3 14:51
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Sketch4 14:04
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Sketch1 12:40
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Kilometres in the sky 12:48
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The rites of untitlement 12:58
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Barbes-Rochechouart 14:04
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Slippery along 12:14
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Glorious drone 1 05:14
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Glorious drone 2 06:58
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Glorious phaedrone 04:14
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ICU streams 05:20
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Processed piano drone segue 02:46
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Foreground to background 35:45
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Foreground rehearsal 3rd Jan 2013 21:52
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Foreground rehearsal again 3rd Jan 2013 18:04
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Foreground rehearsal 8th Jan 2013 22:23
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Unused guitar drone bed 1 15:00
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Unused guitar drone bed 2 05:36
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Remastered recordings from 2012-13
[Duration: 4 hours]

Most of the sound pictures that I assemble, me thinks are just like ‘crappy craft’ pieces. Always my intention is more to make amateur artefact than purposeful art. I make them for myself. They are all experiments, just mucking about; but not what I would call ‘experimental’ in genre.

Yet they are experiments because I am experimenting things for the first time, trying out different blends.

There is always a prior notion at play. Intertextuality. Unconsciously copying and influenced by all music I have ever heard.

I have honed my crappy craft since 1976 when I did my first ‘remix’ on a couple of shitty old tape recorders of the Beatles ‘Revolution #9’ with the assistance of my sister Angela, I just can’t help myself, I just make them. Lots of them.

Just writing songs with words on guitar or keyboards, is pretty boring for me. And who would be interested in my purile reflections on the human condition, tee hee ?

It's a pretty bold assumption to think anyone would be interested.

The world has enough singer songwriters with ingenuine sentiment and facile social analysis already.

So these soundpictures are just about sharing under articulated 'feelings' where the listener completes the performance, if they can be bothered listening. Rather than conveying a 'message' for consumption.

I think that my soundpictures are never really finished pieces. Just an incomplete sketch from a moment in time. Most likely as suggested earlier, an emotional response or a feeling about what is going on around me at that time. Sometimes my biography leaks into the music, or a distortion thereof.

Sometimes I recycle and shapeshift them into other constructions, usually as loops.

I often forget that I have made them and at a later stage rediscover them with new ears. At that point, when I cant remember how I made them, and I become more like a listener, they sometimes start to sound more like art than crappy craft artefacts. In August 2022, my friend Hamish reminded me of these pieces. So I listened with new ears.

I was inspired enough to put together this new expanded compilation of these sketches.

These particular ‘sketches’ are from the period November 2012 to February 2013, recorded soon after we finished a Scattered Order (SO) tour of Europe in November 2012. It brings together three A Cloakroom Assembly (ACRA) releases Sketches 1+2 and Background to Foreground, which for some time have been languishing in the dusty ACRA archives.
There are also some additional unreleased recordings and loop components from rehearsals in January 2013, recorded in preparation for a Frosty/Shane Fahey/ ACRA mini-tour of Melbourne in January 2013.

I started recording the basic parts for Kilometres in the Sky, The Rites of Untitlement and Rochechouart at Charles De Gaul airport in Paris in November 2012 and on the plane back to Sydney. I also recorded the ambience of activity at the airport and incorporated this into the sketches. When I listen to them, I can hear France calling and happy times.

Most of the loop components were recorded just prior to the SO tour. So I was playing with them during in between gigs on the SO tour. However, ‘ ICU Streaming’ was recorded much earlier in 2012 at St Vincent’s Hospital, during my bedside vigil with Fiona.

The Guitar Drones are recorded in January 2013, in preparation for the Frosty show with Shane Fahey, but I didn’t use them.

I think I had a bit of a thing going on at the time with how jazz-fusion had lost its way in the 1970s, too many notes and cymbals. So I think in my mind this music is like art-damaged jazz-fusion, played with all thumbs, poor execution and lots of intuition. In probably draws a line from the fusion like bits on Another Green World ( yeah Percy Jones !) and the electric Miles Davis 1968-74.

In terms of my biography and context. This period was a tumultuous time for me and my family. I had just finished a tour of Europe with Scattered Order, by partner Fiona had just recovered from her sixth brain tumour, was feeling OK and urged me to go on the tour. But soon after I returned it was pretty obvious that the seventh and final tumour was on its way. Our two boys were in their early teens. We were all fatigued and devastated by sustained grief.

Somehow at night, whilst my family slept, I would retreat into a world I could control. Of music and academic writing, sometimes fuelled by a restrained fondness for single malt whisky. I forgot to mention I was also doing a doctorate (which was finally completed over ten years).

So I guess, most of this music is kind of like my own form of ‘blues’ music, full of a great sadness and happiness.

Michael Tee/Coffey August 2022

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released August 6, 2022

Noises by Michael Tee / Coffey
Post Production by Michael Tee / Coffey
Recorded at Charles De Gaul Airport, up in the sky, live in Melbourne and the Warriewood Swamp November 2012-January 2012
Photo by Michael Tee / Coffey from an untitled video experiment in 2007.

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Michael Tee Newcastle, Australia

Michael Tee/Coffey no-longer hides behind the ACRA moniker. So this Bandcamp site is now an outlet for Tee stuff, Ya Ya Choral, Frosty, Tee/Marshall, Space Therapy Robinson et.al. Michael Tee/Coffey co-founded the post punk msquared label in 1979 and was a founding member of 'legendary' noisemakers Scattered Order, A Cloakroom Assembly (ACRA) and the much misunderstood Ya Ya Choral/s (YYC). ... more

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