Monday, August 08, 2005

Add a Large Number to (X)

During the last Add N to (X) show I went to, concerning her absence someone yelled out "where's Ann?!". In response, Steve said of Ann (the solitary female of Add N to (X)) "She wen't crazy". Somewhat intrigued I set about trying to find out what happened to Ann Shenton.

Finally I found her.


Sound capsules, wax cylinders, humming, belching, noise-colour, unlearning, Gregorian-purple, jazz pink, animal yellow, bird-black, un-classical, un-country, un-folk, un-pop, un-rock, un-expect, sapphire ring modulators, emerald envelope shapers, opal oscillators, stupid words and musique tarmac

After Add N To (X), Ann was left with a moog, a korg MS20, a theramin and a beaten up CR68 drum machine.

She scoured the land and found a home-made oscillator, a sack of old synths, a blind banjo player, a guitarist and a woman who communicated through the harmonica. She fixed the MS20 with yoghurt cartons, wiped the blood and beer off the moog, kidnapped former Add N To (X) drummer Rob Allum and set about recording 'SPRAY ON SOUND'. Written and produced by Ann, 'Spray on sound' was recorded in 1814400 seconds on a farm on the site of a disused military test site in Orfordness by a line up of Ann Shenton, vocals, synths and theramin. Rob Allum, drums. Robert Weston, banjo. David Guez, guitars. Jackie Freeworld, percussion; and Pierre Duplan, co-producer; synths, bass and vocals.

http://www.largenumber.co.uk/listen.htm

1 comment:

astroman said...

I think we can all rest easier knowing that Ann is alive, eating yogurt (love that good bacteria!) and making music...