THE SUPERIMPOSERS: October 2011

Sometime during the ever lasting tweak of our first single ‘Over The Bridge’, more new tracks were beginning to take shape, slowly but surely.

SIDE A

‘Would It Be Impossible’ became the second Superimposers 7” release and would prove to ‘have legs’. We realised we had something going on with this Superimposers lark although Would It Be Impossible nearly didn’t happen at all. The idea started with a sample from an LP found in a dusty Dorset charity shop, released by some far flung Asian artist that no-one seemed to have heard of, especially us! Dans weekly root through his local thrift store found him digging deeper and crossing fingers that the next Readers Digest record would contain the ultimate break. One record in particular caught his eye but never quite made it back to the studio. Until one day felling sorry for it he thought that

1) it needed a home
2) it had been sat there for quite sometime
3) the CBS label was all in chinese typface
4) the girl on the cover was pretty
5) it actually could be quite good!

Thankfully, contained on the album were two separate samples on two different tracks that seemed to fit together and were in the same key! There was a rather eerie sound to these loops, you could tell there was a great song dying to break out. So we chopped the samples up, arranged them adding instrumentation & FX. The Roland Space Echo also came into play at this point which you can here at the end of the track. It adds a sense of Psychedelic urgency! The Fender Rhodes begins to get used in full effect, adds to the overall sound and acts as the sonic anchor. For the first time we felt really confident that this song & music was finished!

It was released, once again on a limited run of 500 copies, found its way onto the Wall Of Sound, ‘We Love You’ compilation that year alongside the likes of The Scissor Sisters and the track continues to be The Superimposers anthem to this day. We always enjoy playing it live and if you were ever lucky enough to pick up an original copy with the blue background and white lino cut Swan, then like us you’d agree it is a beautiful and (now very rare) thing to behold!

SIDE AA

The Flip Side to this single was ‘The Lovely Sky Boat’. Here we had a challenge. This was one of the first attempts at constructing a piece of music without the heavy use of samples which up until this point, was an idea we hadn’t really entertained. The song was inspired by Alice Coltrane and the lyrics contained are inspired by and reflect our feelings towards this incredible woman. The whole process of this track was built upon in a new temporary Wonderfulsound home (Miles' home actually) an emergency set up whilst waiting for a new studio space to come up. There have been many since then!

Miles personally laboured the mix down in between inspirational visits to the Jerusalem Tavern and you could just hear that ‘this was the one’. It was quite a magical moment and became a firm favourite of our new and ever growing catalogue of songs.

Our second 7” single was complete and within weeks of it being in the shops we began to hear it broadcasted on Sean Rowleys Joy of Music show and a BBC live session followed tout suite... which of course is a whole different story altogether.

So as a gift from Wonderfulsound to you...... we have designed the "Would It Be Impossible" ringtone. "Amaze your friends as it loops seemlessly!"
DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE RINGTONE HERE
(instructions: drag and drop into your ringtones folder while your phone is connected to i-Tunes & Synch then select ringtone on your device)

Next up, single number 3………"Rainbows" / "Heavy Sigh"

Monday, 31 October 2011

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Thursday, 13 October 2011

The Wonderfulsound Libraries October 2011

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

WOULD IT BE IMPOSSIBLE ..with Free Ringtone!