its been humdinger

its been humdinger humorous because between all the various insanities, we have got more work done. Its Orpheus on the Sidewalk being re-recorded, on top of the old digital live work from Les FouFounes Electriques Live Performance 1991. Now Christ, that was a long time back. Relative, relatively speaking of course. We got those old ones out, and thank god they were digital (thanks to Maurice's skills of the time) and it is not so bad to hear them & redo some of these. The problem is Pat's voice on some of them is not, and was not, at the time, what I hoped to hear. She leads at the edge of breakdown, in some songs, or pomes, call them what you want, whereas Angela's voice is always inside of another warmth. Pat appears to lose control, but didnt; it comes across more as hysteria, at least in the Orpheus texts.
In other texts, her voice is a measured perfection of love and hate, desire and its bellicose double.

but ifshe were to say the words that Angela or Brigid do, as she did at that time, because Angela was not available, it dont work. Its like lettuce cannot never become , what shall I compare it to, lettuce can never become, I don't know, pears. It's not right to draw this analogy, so I will stop , now.

It is and remains a difference. it's like two different women's bodies, their voices,their desire, their sex.

In any event, the thing is looking positive and if it keeps up we might just have three recordings that work combining new and old.

Layerd voices , layered. Layers. One thousand layers.