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I thought I had lost my friend (2021)

by Mark Dalton Griffiths

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I originally recorded a version of the track in 2008, the non vocoder parts created on the Wiard 300 Series and MXR Pitch transposer. I was always unhappy with the vocoded part so I finally re-recorded that in 2021 and re-mixed the synthesiser parts.

The original notes for the track read "The text for the track came from a dream recorded 30/6/2007. It is only a part that appears to deal with the fragmentation of the self into a number of personas, hero, scientist, servant and victim. It’s no co-incidence that the personas are within a graphic novel, they are literally “paper thin”."

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The vocoded lyrics are something like

"I was in a garden

I thought I had lost my friend, I was afraid I had lost him.

And then I found him, finally, trapped in a black and white graphic novel.

He was a between the wars butler, but he cannot remember who he used to be before.

He was part of an expedition to Africa with an aristocratic group, but the expedition had failed.

His face appears in one panel.

Yet another scene panel shows one of expedition members, Werner von Braun, dead in the plane crash,

Now my friend appears as superman, but he is only in the garden we started from.

Now he can only exist as a fantasy figure, in this one place.

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released May 8, 2021

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Mark Dalton Griffiths UK

I'm a UK based synthesist / electronic composer musically active since the late 70s. Mark Dalton Griffiths is the name I use for my more experimental releases.
I started in the world of experimental free jazz and music concrete working live and with tape. I now use Modular synthesisers, field recordings, vocal recordings, acoustic instruments and digital processing to create my music. ... more

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