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Tim Sinclair / Ben WinchBrothers of the Head, released 04 April 20041. Intro2. Highway3. Cruising4. Comedown5. Workday6. Suicide Pt 17. Reprieve8. Woman of Light9. Sex10. It's Not Bad11. Insane12. Confessional13. Heartbeats Pt 114. Heartbeats Pt 215. I Want it Back16. Suicide Pt 217. Credits Roll18. OutroTIM SINCLAIR plays the Internal Twin via SPOKEN WORD.BEN WINCH plays the External Twin via TEXT. (Please click on the ‘lyrics’ links or on the individual track titles to read the text. A free PDF of the original 24-page booklet/zine accompanies the download.)FROM THE PRODUCER:‘Brothers of the Head’ (we called it ‘Twins’ back then) was first pitched to me as a concept by Tim in late 2002; by the end of that year we had a grant to do it; and by about February ’03 I had set up a rudimentary studio in the spare room of mine and my wife’s house, centred around a Tascam 788 portable digital 8-track and a Rode NT3 condensor microphone. Rudimentary, perhaps, but to Tim and me these two items were utter luxuries, and luckily, inspired us to coax the best possible sounds from our junkshop menagerie of instruments.In terms of any sound aesthetic, ‘Twins’ evolved with little forethought, its eventual sonic texture being, for the most part, a product of chance and necessity. In an effort to avoid the traditions of rock songwriting – verses/choruses/melody in particular – which we felt would overpower the words and narrative, our performances were almost all improvised, and many of them first-takes. Of 18 tracks, only 4 evolved from any pre-conceived riff or chord-structure (‘Suicide 1 & 2’, ‘I Want it Back’ and the ‘Outro’) and these we originally improvised to mini-disc around a campfire. This is not to say that work progressed quickly. Perhaps it was for the best that I was inexperienced in production (a few sessions on borrowed analogue 4-tracks aside), otherwise would I really have put so much time into re-shaping and scrubbing up pieces which we had, in many cases, spat out in as much time as it took to play them? New to digital editing, I became fascinated with looping, cutting, pasting – all processes which can transform the humble, inspired but often directionless jam into something more focussed, more coherent, more palatable. High-resolution loops of crappy-sounding old instruments – whoa baby! I’ll have to admit, at first I didn’t know if it could be done – I mean, a musical about a foetus trapped in a head?! But here it is, we did it! Lucky we killed ‘em though, or you’d all be clamouring for a sequel.(Ben Winch, March 2004)CREDITS:Music by Ben Winch and Tim Sinclair, except cello and piano parts on Suicide Pts 1 & 2 and I Want it Back by Allye Sinclair.Spoken word by Tim.Text by Ben.Design and layout by Tim.Music produced by Ben.THANKS TO:Justine Shih Pearson for her outside eye; Kylie Walsh for artist photo; Allye Sinclair for musicianship and generosity; Dave Sinclair, Donovan Winch, Reed Cathcart and Andrew Noble for equipment lendage; R & R Sinclair for use of house and assorted instruments.“... we are needless to say in a skull.”(Samuel Beckett)CIP001, Cottage Industry Press

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