Hi Rita, thanks mate. He's an artist and I have so much respect for what he creates yes. Sorry the late reply!!

Agreed. Thanks BB.

Thank you my friend and same to you.

Ha yes, thank you very much, survived new year too! Was in bed by 11 pm, not much of a party animal these days. Appreciate your ears Manuela, my regards and hope 2023 treats you well. Chris.

funnily enough, I sent this track to Pseudoble (Ian) and he said exactly the same thing. I'd never heard them but checked them out, pretty cool. Thanks a lot, love your music by the way...

I second that!!!

Hi Jonathon, thanks a lot. Well you know the source material was pretty cool. But admittedly, when I hit upon the combination of the two treated guitar tracks I thought it sounded pretty nice. Happy New Year!

Late getting back to you sorry! Yeah, I never knew of that music under that genre/name, but liked a lot of the bands you mention and which probably fell under that umbrella. Not so hard to get good guitar sounds with the virtual amp software etc available now. I think you'd have to be a purist or a professional to still be using mic'd amp cabinets?

Hi CCC, waz up? LM woldn't let me post the link to it in the comments, but here it is:

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/229439

Thanks for listening mate, Chris

ha, no way, soon as I heard that original track of yours (at least a year or more ago) I loved its mood of gentle melancholy and regret. I knew I wanted to do something with it, but singing didn't work. So this, after all that time, is what we've ended up with. I'm just glad you like it. Hope you're not freezing over there!! Happy new year bro.

That's very true actually, shouldn't take those feet for granted! Thanks Wayne.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate that comment very much. I spent a bit of time on the drums. I'm sure I don't need to tell someone like you about production cause you're way ahead of me, but I wanted them to kind of lead it and sound big. So I double tracked them, put some automated light flange on one to try to get a bit of movement, along with the usual compression and EQ and on the other I put on D16 Frontier limiter cranked so it distorted a little, and blended them together. That's pretty hi tech for me!!

You're right there, not really a song. You should check out some of stokes's other work, particularly the tracks he's been doing lately. I almost don't think of them as music myself, they're as much theatre or drama as anything else.

I haven't actually done a great deal of collaboration, for one thing I struggle to get any time for doing my own thing. But I'm definitely open to giving something a go. Still going to be busy with the tyranny of 'work' in the New Year. Actually I'll be about as far away from anything as it is possible to be for all of January, heading down to one of NZ's subantarctic islands! Then things won't really slow down until autumn. But you're welcome to hit me up anyway. I really like your vox and lyrics, they made quite an impression on me when I first heard them. Definitely inspiring. so keep at it my friend!

Yo Paul, thanks man, yep I think Mike likes it, which is great. HIs track was beautiful in its own right, have put the link in reply to CCC's comment. Happy new year man.

HI Michael, Xmas eh? busybusy stress stress, my wife takes it very seriously indeed! Thanks for listening mate, all the best and happy new year, Chris.

Thankyou my friend, I always appreciate hearing from you. By the way I checked out your utube of your latest, very cool indeed.

ah yes, brother Mike is from somewhere else I think. Cheers and happy new year Maj.

Very kind mate, but I think stokes can take the majority of the credit. The original track was short but very sweet.

No, better to gaze on y wonder at the stars.