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SINGING FOR THE PLEASURE OF THE DAYDREAM

by GWILLY EDMONDEZ

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1.
Monkey 1973 03:54
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2.
Beast 04:03
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3.
Jealous 03:05
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4.
Blind Fishover 06:40
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5.
Music From My Mother 01:26
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6.
Stripes 03:39
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7.
A Feather In The Shepherd's Bed 05:30
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8.
Long Live The Silence 02:04
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9.
Castle 03:15
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10.
Moon Sheep 06:57
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11.
About My Swimming Pool 03:53
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12.
Bed Bath 03:50
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13.
Crawling Down The Passage 04:14
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14.
The Kissing Gate [Closing Title] 03:33
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This is a break-up album, recorded during the summer before Gwilly started at art college, September 1984. It was recorded spontaneously in uncomposed first takes (the only part reworked and redubbed is the guitar solo on 'Moon Sheep'). It was made over several weeks as what had been the first steady relationship (18 months) for both came apart gratuitously in slow motion. While these songs were recorded, Gwilly was working in parallel on a composed/rehearsed album (also a break-up album concerning the same break-up) with Owen Powell. The Economy of Islands by Gwilly Edmondez and Owen Powell will also be posted here.

Singing For The Pleasure Of The Daydream was conceived and packaged as a solo album by Gwilly Edmondez in 1984, which is to say ‘solo’ as distinct from the total-improv/free music/proto-Wild Pop band Radioactive Sparrow and a couple of dwindling rehearsing projects Gwilly was a part of. But it was never ‘released’ as a public-facing emission; rather it was kind of a letter/essay/proposal for what could be made out of the Radioactive Sparrow experience (by then four years in) recontextualized into some kind of more formalized (which is to say multi-tracked) condition. It got passed around a bit among people he was doing other projects with. At the centre of all these projects was Gwilly’s garden shed where all of this album was made; Radioactive Sparrow and those other bands would store their gear in said shed where all recordings and rehearsals took place, which is why Gwilly had a drum kit and some extra keyboards (the Moog, bought for 50 quid in 1981, and the guitars were the only instruments on here that belonged to him).

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released August 31, 1984

Credits:
Gwilly Edmondez – all instruments, sounds and voices, except:

Dai Cox – drums on tracks 1, 7 & 9
Jon Boyes – bass on track 1, guitar on track 9
Brother Niklus – drumming on track 13

Recorded in Ewenny, Bridgend, July-August 1984

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