CARPHEAD is a new idea by a noisemerchant by the name of John Saunders. The noises made by John Saunders are the product of over 25 years of composing and rejecting most of his material, purely because he is never happy about most of what he does. But, occasionally he does come up with the odd ditty that he is proud of, and this page is the manifestation of these rare occasions. There is no history musically to speak of, so CARPHEAD will spare you the blah!
The songs entered so far (except for ’Another World’) are from a mini album or EP as we used to call them in the olden days, called ’CONKERS’. The third piece of music is actually called HANG GLIDING WITH VERTIGO not V..................... as the player suggests.
The album title ’CONKERS’ came about because the recording period spanned from autumn2005 to autumn 2006. The cover artwork is a little bit of friendly plagiarism based on the cover from an excellent British band...they know who they are! My workmate of nearly 30 years, Mervyn, produced the artwork. Just a thought that some people reading this may not know what CONKERS are, here is a brief explanation :- CONKERS is a game traditionally played by school children in the U.K. at least(though not so often due to safety restrictions nowadays). It involves knocking Horse Chestnuts, or Conkers, out of a tree by hurling a big stick. Then the Horse Chestnut would be drilled or pierced through the centre to accomodate a length of string, or preferably a bootlace threaded through and ingeniously knotted at one end to stop the Conker from flying off, provided that the correct end of the bootlace is held. The game would involve bashing the tops off of each others knuckles by swinging the Conker in a downward direction, though I believe that the original idea was to make contact with your opponents Conker and try to smash it into pieces to win the game. The victor would then add a number to his Conker i.e. a 1er or 22er or however many times that Conker had beaten another. I remember swapping a Woodbine from my packet of five for a 99er, though in hindsight I think that I may have been duped, that Conker didn’t even have a hole drilled through it! Some of you may think that wasn’t a brief explanation, but in my opinion, though admittedly biased, the subject of CONKERS deserves a greater coverage.
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For those that are interested, I have now started a sister site called INSTRUCARP which shall feature instrumental tracks from my past, but again in re-recorded form. There is a tune on Instrucarp from this page, but soon all will be new ones.
