MUDDLIN GEAR, by JAMIE LIDELL

MUDDLIN GEAR

by JAMIE LIDELL

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mynameisemes The only one album from Jamie that I will actually want to buy! Completely different than the next ones! Favorite track: Said Dram Scam.

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Muddlin Gear is the debut solo album from Jamie Lidell, recorded in 1999 and released in 2000. Twenty years later we're chuffed to make it available digitally and to give 100% of the proceeds to a great cause in these difficult times. Two bonus unreleased tracks when you buy the album.
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Scroll down under the track titles for some comments and misty memories from Hardy Spymania and Jamie himself.
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*100% OF REVENUE FROM SALES GOES DIRECTLY TO FARESHARE, helping to fight hunger and food waste. Please give generously if you can! It costs FareShare 25p to redistribute a meal, so every purchase will buy at least 16 meals for those in need.*
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1.	The Entroscoper 01:03
2.	Said Dram Scam 02:49
3.	The Eèp 04:42
4.	Ill Shambâta 03:54
5.	La Scappin Rööd 02:56
6.	In Inphidelik 05:42
7.	Silent Why 04:18	buy track
8.	Da Doo Doo 01:47
9.	Daddy's Car 04:05
10.	00..0 05:06
11.	The Cop It Suite 08:00
12.	Dröön_99 11:43
13.	*Daddy No Lie 02:00

about

HARDY:
It was 1999 and, in old Brighton town, you could still secure white hot sonic alloys of the highest grade from the very best, as everyone had to pay their rent. I'll give you a grand if you deliver us an album. Of course, I knew I'd love it. Jamie was an unmatched performer and had a chaotic, noisy, one man improvisation show that teetered on the brink of collapse. What I didn't expect was the huge range of the album. Listening now, twenty years later, I still think it sounds amazing and fresh.

JAMIE:
Muddlin Gear will never be repeated.
I couldn’t make it again if I tried. Like sonic marmite it causes extreme reactions even 20 years on. I’ll put that down to the fact that I put some real unrefined confusion and searching into this. It was my music for the ears of Spy and Ra.
That time in my life wasn’t smooth and the music will always shoot me straight back to the fiery headiness of Brighton at the end of the 90s.
Much respect goes to Cristian Vogel and the gang at no-future. I couldn’t have made this LP without them. The studio that I shared with Cris was incredible. Just blew my mind to have access to his collection of machines. In a way this record is the sound of my mind and sonic universe expanding to fit the options in that place.
Speaking of which I owe a huge debt to my pal Pablo Fiasco. I was his room mate during this time and he heavily inspired me to go way deeper than I would have dared. We listened to amply Sun Ra and Can which I think you can hear buried in the muddle.
There was a lot of getting wasted, getting lost, getting deep. I was singing into trumpets, making music entirely from a 50s tone generator and sometimes painstakingly cutting micro sounds individually into place. It took me weeks to finish these tracks. There’s drone music, clicks und cuts, some sun ra doo wop, some noise jazz and a touch of R and B.
Probably the most honest record I ever made in terms of wearing all the outfits at once.
I was buzzing to make a record for Spy. I always held Hardy’s music taste in the highest regard. He introduced me to Dilla, Fela Kuti and so many other incredible worlds so I wanted to hand in something that packed some oomph.
So here we are again 20 odd years later.
I hope you’ll spread a little muddlin on ear. It’s full of life like a sonic yeast.
You’ll likely like it in small doses.
:)

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released November 6, 2020

Written and produced by Jamie Lidell, except *written by Sun Ra.
Art & Design by Pablo Fiasco.
www.fareshare.org.uk

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