“I'm normally not a big fan of spoken word music. But I love your voice, and I think it would be fantastic to have you doing a spoken word thing on this track I have, if you’re into it.” ..was a message from Martin (The Home Current) to Peter. Around successive midnights over the next six weeks the tracks from Martin flowed and these good friends made enjoyable work of shaping words around music, and melding both into the audio scenes that make up this unusual project of which Unfortunes is the very first issue. With the first 10-track target reached, neither had any clear idea of quite what they had made, and probably still don’t. It came together without any theorising. Something in the connection kept sparking and lighting up the next step.
But any deeper reflection on the origins and mechanics of this creative process will surely lead back to the storytelling glow of cinema. Martin is a lover and collector of film soundtracks, and Peter has long been reminding Martin of the filmic flavour of a wide region of his music and its potential destination as part of films as yet unmade; Peter is a cinephile whose love of watching films takes away much of the little time he has to spend on making his own music. Martin has threatened to kill Peter if he doesn’t release more music. Unfortunes is a compromise that will keep Peter alive a little longer.
Released: 29/01/21