Harry Houdini was one person who wasn't taken in - he created several spirit photos of his own and then showed everyone how it was done. Mostly the voices captured on these tapes imparted fleeting and cryptic one-liners, sometimes in several languages in the course of a single sentence. Not a lot of them make sense. So as we pass into the computer age, it seems logical that the spirits will adopt the digital technology as their means of communication. Anyway, to come to the point, I figured there was an opportunity to create a piece based on this idea when one of my text files got corrupted during a disk transfer.
Incantation is the result.
In keeping with my interest in the state between sleeping and waking, I submit this little portrait of an Incubus. If you know the works of Marc Chagall you might recognise some of the images in this song which is the most overtly dream-influenced track on the album. The snippet of dialogue near the begining is from a bizarre religious propaganda film from the fifties, which manages to have some of the most appalling acting ever committed to celluloid. The trains were recorded not far from where I actually heard them as I woke at 4.15 am. The exquisite vocal was performed by Robyne Dunn .