April 2, 2006
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SWEET
F A - Only available via download, Sweet FA is a new 7-track lo-fi EP that forms part of the Sound Aid project, co-ordinated by Londoner Mike Azzopardi in his bid to do something about world hunger.
SoundAid.org is a hugely ambitious and
yet breathtakingly simple way to feed hungry people through
music. Listen to a promo trail (podcasters - please plunder!)
click a title to listen to a clip of each track, or "Proceeds of the album are going via Sound Aid to the Heifer Project, which provides livestock to help communities become self-sufficient and combat hunger. It's not just cows - they also do pigs, goats, ducks and bees. I rather like the idea that my music is enabling the purchase of a useful bee... "...The title track is a song I wrote way, way back, during an A-list rock and roll adventure in St Andrews. The sort that if you made a movie about it no-one would believe it because it would be too full of improbable cliches. The whole thing became a bit of an urban legend. Except it really happened, and more. Those who were there and are still alive will know exactly what I'm talking about. The lyric isn't about that at all, except in passing. "The original version of Sweet FA got played on Radio 1 and the BBC World Service quite a bit in the early 90s. This is a re-recording, which appears in two versions on the CD - nude a capella and a slightly rockish, slightly ambient dance version that was produced by the Dutch electronic artist and podcaster Patric Bakkenist. "Sleepwalking and Right Thing are from the Work CD I recorded in London with John Peacock. Right Thing is the original version but Sleepwalking is a remix with a new vocal on it. They are the two most Beatley songs on the album. "Blind Leading the Blind and Happening are culled from my debut album, Road Movie, produced by Zoot Money. It's the first appearance on a compilation for Blind - just felt like it would fit here. Happening was completely remixed for last year's Independent Artist Aid - Hope Never Dies (still available). "Leap of Faith is a solo offering from last autumn's home-recording bonanza. It was playlisted for 10 weeks over the winter on Radio Six International, who are great supporters of my music. It's an uptempo-ish Latin-flavoured song about unconditional love - taking that leap into the unknown even if it means you end up prat-falling and looking like a twat as a result. Which can and does happen sometimes." from Woody's blog
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