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Alice in Ultraland
Runtime: 5:29
And it’s back into psychedelic jam band mode again. Named after the track’s harmonica player, Billy ‘the Onion’ Jones, the piece is funky psychedelic blues, led by Mikey Rowe’s hammond organ and moog melodies, especially in the groovy descending chorus melody and Gary Lucas’s slide guitar. It’s the exact opposite of what I want from music, really, but I actually really enjoy this track. Even the almost overbearing clutter of so many instruments doesn’t bother me so much here. It’s very hard to hear any FSOL in the track at all – little in the way of obvious processing or odd samples, other than the delay-coated outro – but it does its job really well. Billy himself was a chance meeting in a Swindon pub, Gaz having been to see Gary Lucas perform with The Magic Band: a moment of serendipity.
Credits
Written by Cobain/Dougans.
Produced by The Future Sound of London.
Engineered by Stone Freshwaters, One Man Band of Cosmos, His Motherness and Yage.
Additional recordings at the Mikey Rowe Sound Laboratory, engineered by Mikey Rowe.
Harmonica, guitar and bass recorded at Lighterthief, engineered by Stu Rowe.
Cobain/Dougans: Sounds/guitars/synths/FX twists/SoundPROK.
Tim Weller: Drums.
Mikey Rowe: Hammond, moog.
Gary Lucas: Acoustic bottleneck guitar.
Billy ‘the Onion’ Jones: Harmonica.
Stu Rowe: Electric guitar, bass.
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