hymn by Simon Aulman

Oh lordy, this and Hymen are the only two great albums I've ever made - all the other thousands I've done are trash. Probably.

This album is deliberately pitched extremely quietly - it is for those times of the night, outside, alone, way away from buildings and people.

This is another album like Hymen - short pieces of rural electronic simplicity.

All music made using a microphone, Audacity, and a "Sheffield" toy keyboard (£19-99 in Lidl), all recorded here in Southampton in the penultimate week of January 2021.

My favourite tracks are 2 and 15 - oh sigh, if ONLY music was always as easy/simple/quick/lucky as they were to make.

My previous album, Hymen, came in a limited edition of 4 copies, the first thee copies went quickly, the fourth took a bit of time. So making 8 copies of this album seems insanely optimistic - especially as I don't even have 8 followers and rarely get 8 visitors to this site in a week - so yes it's going to take months/years/forever/never to shift 8 copies - but sometimes you need faith that there are others on the same wavelength, even if it's barely anyone and they're barely anywhere. And I did enjoy looking at that little number up by the "orders" box at the top of the Bandcamp page, waiting for it to go up and go down - and for the first time in decades I think I understand again the allure of the Real - from now on all my albums will be physical as well as digital - and now I'm going to use the next weeks/months of nothing-happening by taking a short break from getting sore knees kneeling down on the floor with that low-batteries keyboard wishing I was lucky.

Photo taken by me, on the path from Lockerley to East Tytherley, January 2021.