remember all the times I felt that natural impulse, always sudden, he did lead me to the guitar or keyboard almost like someone is headed by hypnosis or somnambulism, put your fingers on the instrument and come up with something that somehow made sense. Then prepared a tape-usually not a virgin, I got to clear up old tapes original Heroes del Silencio my mother-in dual-deck cassette player to record everything that might happen. Play, rec. The chords and arpeggios repeating loop for seven, ten minutes, and the wild gushing melody unknown; phonetic arbitrary mixed with real words with appropriate stitching end up in the letter. The thrill of rewind and listen to something you did not know very well where he came from, and the odd relief on how I've got something of the chest, whatever it was. I miss him very much. Now, I am glad and what hurts me, all my metaphors and my sensibility, the gift by writing about music of others.
In January 1998, full album mix Moon Pix, room Cat Power, Matt Voigt engineer was listening to the final tracks to shape sequencing album, in the beginning and finish. Chan Marshall began playing piano in the recording studio to accommodate a simple variation of La, and Re, and unexpectedly found itself in the wonderful process that I improvised and narrated before she lived there hundreds of times, although I wonder how many with the clarity and radiating 'Colors and the Kids' . Legend has it that at some point, having found four ideas to words, asked the engineer to press the button and what we hear in Moon Pix is \u200b\u200bthe first shot, six and a half minutes that could be doubled without us knew it because in those simple two chords Marshall covers a warm feeling of nostalgia.
"I could stay here, become someone different
could stay here, become someone better
is so hard to get around the city
because I want to say 'Hi 'everyone
is so hard around town
because I want to say' I love you 'to everybody "
The juxtaposition of the terrible loneliness coming to adulthood happy memories I have of three people (Two of his best friends and her niece) erected a sense of desire to regain the carefree spirit of the days of childhood and adolescence ( "I find on the beach? / We roll up the jeans for the tide caught us by below the knees ") and have about who wants, which can only evoke by the noise of children (" should be the colors and children makes me feel alive / because the music bores me to die ").
published in September 1998
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