I hope that Houdini will repay your efforts with more detail and intrigue at each listening. Think of it as being like a restless dream-filled night if you like. The vocal for this was originally recorded for a short film where it appeared unaccompanied, but I knew even at that time that I would probably resurrect it and elaborate on it further. The voice belongs to Eva Trout's Bek Jean Stewart and her beautiful melancholy rendering sets the album up beautifully I think. Click here 2.
Some thoughts are better brief.
It's based on an incident told to me by a friend. On the later instrumental part of the track I used for the first time in many years my very first synthesizer which I still have and will never give away. The vocal was performed by Mark Callahan who I think was quite bemused by my strange phrasings and melody but nevertheless went on to provide a perfect interpretation of the idea. Radio Egypt Painters occasionally look at a work in a mirror to get a different perspective on composition and colour, and with that thought I set about creating this track. The vocals are snippets of Bek Jean's voice flipped backwards and arranged to make melodic sense.