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FTAL Attraction EP

by Foci's Left

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Put the pen to the paper, dismantle the furniture Like then rebuild it again, my mind comes flat packed Ready to unwravel, my bills, my beauty, you dazzle innature. A rose in the dessert wind. Always right-tracked creature. Meditation on integration, what we all ask for Sometimes deserts us, as soon as we deserve us Considerable frippery in E flat, slippery, a B-sharp The ecstascy of the world a polluting fragrance Like a rose in the dessert winds. You bring the teabags, I'll select the coffee Together we caffeinate, exploratory, my beauty You dazzle innature. Like a Valentine's payslip A check of roses in the vase to be kept. A rose in the dessert wind, never casts the first hail.
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Your eternal soulmate / Your girl E-lane / My best friend Michael / The Astral Plane / repeat / repeat / My best friend Michael, star - star / His gir E-lane / On the nature of sunlight, your girl E-lane / Daddy is home, Mummy creates / The Astral Plane / Einstein creates / The Astral Plane / Time comes / Light comes Daddy is home / Mum has refrained / Mummy's refrain / On the nature of moonlight / The Astral Plane / Max Star right star, blue book in my pocket / The Astral Plane, wise star / Two wise men ya ja ya / The Astral Plane / Aid stars' name / Buxta, Elle star / The Astral Plane The Astral Plane / Mummy loves her children / Mummy is home / On the astral plane
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"Wow, love it! The closest to Jandek I've ever heard!" ~ Nils Frahm, Erased Tapes.

"Man this is sooo good Mick. I am lost for words dude!!" ~ Daniel Crossley, Fluid Radio editor.

"On first listen it reminds me of Mark Perry's early forays into the avant garde" ~ Jonathan Tait, www.subvertcentral.com admin, SC Recordings owner and published Wire magazine letter writer in concern of Meredith Monk.

Patience, objects, human philosophy and communication - all subjects making up the six tracks on my second EP. Foci's Left is the production name of Muttley, aka Mick Buckingham, whose "Spillage" EP on "Audio Gourmet" (Wire advertised) in 2010 became very popular. I self-admitted myself to a mental health institute in September 2012. Two weeks later I was moved to where a recording studio lay. The story is: the first three tracks were recorded in one day, as one take improvisations, whereas Staind's "It's Been A While" (Vocal Cover), "Out Patient (The Rhizome Clinic)" and "Speech In Order To Think" (recorded 13.12.12 and featuring a mysterious baby's voice saying "Alright Dad") were two take improvisations of voice and environment as an instrument outside mental hospital (keyboard, passing acoustics, and magical proxy) into my Cowon J3's mic.

The title is an ode to:

"For The Ambient Lovers...review and mixtape archive 001"

subvertcentral.com/forum/showthread.php?56404-For-The-Ambient-Lovers-review-and-mixtape-archive-001

...which is the only place you will find this rehosted, a topic with 50, 000+ views to date.

Merry Xmas, hope you enjoy it - this represents the rawest Foci's Left music.

"Still no grindcore, but here at least is a demo that makes you think about what constitutes music. Aiming across five tracks to reflect a trip through a mental hospital, the EP feels decidedly off-colour throughout, the music disjointed, the lyrics fractured, the whole thing starting off unravelled and never gaining any semblance of coherence. Which, pretty much suits the central concept. 'In Patient' for example, sounds like someone with absolutely no prior experience of music, instruments or the concept of singing, being forced at gunpoint to write and perform a Michael Buble ballad on a detuned piano. The rambling, stream-of-consciousness lyrics paint disturbingly incoherent pictures, 'Out Patient' concluding with the line "It's out of your control, like a freak on a leash", though it's never clear how much the lyrics reflect the singer's own mental state. None of it makes any sense and as far as widely accepted notions of music go, it's random in the extreme, but compared to the polished, conformist crap we heard earlier, we're rather taken to it."

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released December 29, 2012

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Foci's Left Oxford, UK

Specialising in wide ambient music. Releases sidestep the norm, since 2010 on labels inc. Wire magazine advertised Audio Gourmet, SoundFjord and Omni Music.

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I am an unemployed, mentally ill musician with schizo-affective disorder, using music creation as therapy :)
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