Robert Wyatt
Summer 2013
towards the end of the 20th century, Tomoyasu sent me a message asking something like:
“do you have any piece of new material we could work on”—–?
I did have. Brian the Fox was an un-placed, un-worked basic idea I had.
unusual for me in that it had no strict tempo, and the words were an attempt to write a text even shorter than a Haiku!
(I just recorded it directly onto tape at home, on cassette, no ‘production’.) the music ending was improvised – the delay before the final chords was me trying to choose the final few chords…
I sent this to Tomoyasu and Tomoko.
they have enhanced the idea beautifully”.
“Received a tape from Robert Wyatt in 1998. The title was “Brian The Fox” and four takes were recorded.
We chose one take from it and started working on it.
I first dubbed layers of sounds to it and Takaaki Han-ya took over the piece afterwards.
The piece was dramatically changed and completed after a total of two years.
I became aware of more possibilities for the piece sometime after we finished the work.
That was the beginning of this long journey.
The second one was an instrumental version and the third one was a short vocal version.
Then, I completed a suite with a story (eight takes) and the new version is still developing at the moment”. ~TH
An EP is available on iTunes, and a full release is scheduled for 2015.
More info on the Project’s website and Facebook page.