Paul Johnstone

Manx expat now living in Totnes with a bunch of soft-focus lilac uniorns with stars on the ends of their horns.I play guitar, bass, percussion, sing, and make funny noises with whatever I can lay my hands on. I currently play with Fatlab and occasionally the Tholtan Builders whenever I get back to the Island. I've also been known to write music for theatre companies.This is a page I set up to put out some material I've kicked around over the years. There is no rhyme or reason to any of it, but it's good to get it out there.About these tunes:UNDERWATER HEARTThis recording was my very first attempt at using a recording studio. I invented a very sick tuning for this piece. DADFC#D, for anyone who can be arsed.LANDED BEATSOne of my early attempts at, er, dance music. Written for a theatre performance but never used. This was at the end of my degree and I was in the process of going insane.HUMSLICERI created this piece almost entirely (apart from one blip, one thud and a drum roll) from a vocal recording of the ridiculously talented Miriam Kisters. It was originally used as a live backing track for a vocal improvisation piece performed by Miriam.NIGHT TRAIN TO LUXORFergus Ryan, my sometime partner in crimes against music, recorded several hours of soundscape footage using a minidisc and a set of binaural microphones designed to look like headphones (sneaky, but christ they're good mics) whilst on holiday in Egypt.Late one night/early one morning, Fergus and I fastfowarded and rewound the minidisc recording to get that stuttering/sliced effect, then recorded the results. These recordings were then chopped up and arranged using ACID. The piece describes a journey through Luxor, onto a train and then into the countryside.If you can be bothered, stick out this one out. It gets good after about 3-4 minutes.