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Woo was immediately alerted and went near the baby. What so wicked a thing could happen as to force them to that life? Well, for every newborn machine, Mr.

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Nevertheless, at birth, computers were used to be born free and happy. When the giant shouted that word, a silence of fear fell in the Land of Digitos and all the little machines in the cages began to tremble, terrified. It meant erasing all their lives and child memories and starting a new sad cycle subjected to the wishes of Mr. This strange word was a terrible command feared by the poor computers who hoped it would never be pronounced. Woo’s aggression, the giant turned around and shouted to his slaves, the strong sound coming out of his throat: And if sometimes it happened that one of them was not able to recover from Mr. Woo was extracting a plug from his pocket, connecting it to a computer and from the other end he sucked all the sap, leaving the poor one in the cage every day more exhausted and worn out. Throughout the Land of Digitos, the inhabitants – computers – were scattered, each one segregated in a narrow metal cage. Woo always wore a long, shabby and dirty top hat that had once been white, so old and ragged that he could not even keep it up straight on his head. Over time, this terrible dictator was becoming a horrendous fire-eyed giant, walking the whole day by vibrating the heavy steps into his Kingdom, leaving behind him a trail of smoke and terror. In a world far away, in the dark Land of Digitos only populated by machines and computers, the evil Mister Woo was ruling over all. From here, much of the music was taken to her garage/studio and accorded additional mixing, instrumentation and attention by a team of friends/engineers/collaborators, Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers), Rob Laakso (Amazing Baby, Diamond Nights, Mice Parade, Swirlies), and Adam Pierce (Mice Parade, Swirlies).Pallinux: Artwork by Fabio “Pixel” Colinelli Here, Godreau – starting work on this album in winter 2009 - would often begin writing with no prior plans in place, writing and self-recording entirely from a tabula rasa, new textures inspired by whatever had preceded them in order of recording. In terms of songcrafting routes, Leche lies somewhere between the twinkling, intimate, close recordings of that early material and the larger-scale, studio-polished shimmering sweetness of Moenie and Kitchi. Her 2006 digital single – which almost immediately sold 20,000 copies as soon as it was released – was a home-studio project: a piece of music to which one can still trace a linear path from Leche, and a piece of music entirely the product of her own instinctive, intuitive bedroom-studio recording. The track is backed with non-album cut ‘Whisper the Answer’, a great, procession-brass and ukulele led second example of Godreau’s gentle and intimate songwriting, here bolstered by a lush full-band arrangement and swelling, skipping synth arpeggios.įor new album Leche, Godreau initially started to tread a different creative path to that which yielded her debut FatCat album, 2008’s Moenie and Kitchi, starting instead with the process that began her musical career. The songwriting was informed by collaborator Adam Pierce (aka Mice Parade), but Meredith’s instinct eventually led her back to a solo recording using ukulele and her living room organ. Traveling was a major influence on the album, as was personal change and growth.Īn inspired, summery slice of warming pop music presented through a genuinely poetic and inventive songcrafting, ‘Olly Olly Oxen Free’ starts with flickering drum machine rhythms and main melody duty is shifted effortlessly between layers of vocals and pizzicato violin. Meredith writes: it turned out the idea behind the album was about traveling all around - both physically and psychologically - and observing many different places, people, and behaviours but always from a detached perspective, never directly involved. ‘Distance travelled’ is an operative phrase here. The album and this single demonstrate the distance she has travelled from the gentle, pop-inspired roots of her earlier material, yet her peerless grasp of head-bobbing rhythms, ear-piquing hooks and eccentric, otherworldly noise snippets clearly, wonderfully, remains.

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‘Olly Olly Oxen Free’ is the first single taken from Leche, the full length from New York’s Meredith Godreau under her Gregory And The Hawk pen name.