Apprentice Green by flakebelly

Apprentice Green. The name of my student band all those moons ago. Around 2003 or so I demoed a bunch of songs, the first I had written way back when in the misty mists of time, when I was but a short-trousered wee nipper. A hoarder at heart, I've held on to those demos like tattered bits of string, lumping them from place to place and filling many a kitchen drawer with one-day-surely-to-be-useful sketches.

Toiling alone in the home studio from October 2022 to February 2023. Recording. Mixing. Mastering. 4 months to reckon with a lifetime of threads. 4 months to re-tool half-remembered tunes, to scaffold scantily clad melodies & re-flesh the uncloseted skeletons of unfinished business.

It is unashamedly psychedelic. Rocky, folksy, jazzy, shoegazy & sometimes just plain weird. But always, I hope, beguiling, bewitching & bewildering.

It starts with a breath in and ends with a breath out.

37 & one half minutes. 10 songs.

Tracklist

1.	TimeBomb	3:15

2.	What The Thunder Said	3:38

3.	Caution	4:20

4.	Nightspiders	3:58

5.	Waterline	3:07

6.	Plackwitch On The Bettigown	2:08

7.	Great Buckets Of You	3:29

8.	Bellwether	4:54

9.	Raggy Doll	3:59

10.	Butterfly Brain	4:48

Credits

released November 1, 2024

All songs written, played, recorded, mixed & mastered by flakebelly. Except 'Caution': written by flakebelly & Alan Rogers. Original cover image by Benjamin Beach.

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