Impasse midway mockup 2002 — A Shift & the Clouds've Lied

demos on the run

I remember this February night: 

	I made this mockup at the end of an insomniac session from my Edmonton AB basement studio.

The day started downtown — a morning physical with a Canadian immigration department doctor. 

Next stop, a recording studio meetup to see if they could transfer the data from my then-new Roland 2480 to discs that I could send to NYC for remote mixing.

I still hadn’t studied the operating manual & was in a rush.

The rush lasted until sunrise when I left town in an all-nighter daze, but with songs, intended for Impasse, in a collection to overthink while driving alone. 

	The below version of A Shift is a first draft recorded in 2000 on my Yamaha MD8 after I released The Hill.

The twelve-stringy & The Clouds’ve Lied is a Roland demo from 2001. 

	When I returned home with three weeks left until my May 16 deadline at the transfer studio, I re-recorded A Shift in a lower tuning on the Roland & retrofit & The Clouds’ve Lied with nylon guitar, vibes & let a faint harmony disappear.

I passed the physical, but didn’t really give the manual, or a few other impulses, a deeper read for another decade.

A Shift — midway demo:

& The Clouds’ve Lied — midway demo: