NEW EP - 'NARCOSIS' - CD/ ON RED EYE thru POLYDOR
 

- Ordinariness in music, often caused by mundanity of motive (eg. money) is an ennervating fact of life that drains me dry. More and more I feel compelled to provide an antithesis for the aridity of what I hear around me, and to this end, I have finally put together my own 24 track studio deep in the bowels of Surry Hills: Cumulative Buzz. Here with my co-hort, the Serpent, manning the knobs and buttons, we have delved deep to come up with this disc, the first of my "solo" records to be made in a "real studio".

- 'NARCOSIS' because the prevailing mood is sleep, but not the sleep of oblivion; rather the sleep of improbable and unforseen thoughts that flows and floods and does what it wants, just on the edge of unconsciousness. You may laugh to know that most of this record was made asleep. I dreamed it up and it fell onto tape in viscous liquid drops.

- 'SOMNA' (the Latin and Swedish word for sleep). In the nonspecific future where sleep has become a currency and insomnia a punishment.

- In 'LIMBO', between sleeplessness and slumber, our protagonist plots his subconscious revenge.

- 'SLEEP WITH ME' is a dream of a French film on a hot Sydney night. Frogs croak out the rhythm track and samples provide dopplegangers; and you should try to understand.

- 'FALL IN LOVE' in which a friend of mine needs a big hit of lurve to stop his plummet into the abyss of slumber. It's a sad story but true and it happened to someone you used to sleep with. Were you really in love? Can you still tell the difference?

- Finally, in 'SPACE', half awake, the whole universe nods off, leaving our hero sinking in a pool of his own drowsiness and the strange scenes awaiting him in it's depths.

- The music was recorded spontaneously over the course of six months whie the studio was in various stages of completion. The music virtually wrote itself and went wherever it wanted.

- I trust this EP accomplishes something of its ambitions and retains the heaviness as the onset of sleep approaches. Listen to it in a soft and comfortable place and give in.
 

STEVE KILBEY     1991