"Sketches" for Two Weeks of Spring

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Sketches for Two Weeks of Spring 25:29

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This track contains the original acoustic demos for the pachyderm album 'Two Weeks of Spring'

Tom Jarvis:

Havana, Cuba, December 2013 : This is where it started . . . sat at a kitchen table waiting for the landlord, the Jackal, to arrive to fix a broken toilet in the apartment, listening to the beat outside on the crossroads of Jesus Maria and Habana - boom-cha-boom-cha, boom-cha-boom-cha - a rhythm powered by car batteries and pedals- boom-cha-boom-cha, boom-cha-boom-cha - a constant pulse pumping the blood . . . the front door was slid open onto a narrow street illuminated by the type of moon Chuck Berry sung about - yellow, low and large, like a fat ass sat in the sand . . . a dog was barking somewhere up in an alleyway nearby and a public phone on the corner rang until it was cut off by a voice screaming 'dime' . . .

Then the songs arrived. A procession of ghosts entered through the door drunk on rum and exited late in the night through the windows, now as melodies and rhythms . . .

I rewound my cassette player and listened back to the music I had recorded. OK, here we go, I thought, and then I finished my drink.

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released September 25, 2014

Recorded in Havana on a Sony Microcassette-corder M-560V with a Prima acoustic guitar.

December 2013-January 2014

Photo by Annie Billington

MAKING OF: TWO WEEKS OF SPRING'
twoweeksofspring-blog.tumblr.com

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pachyderm Montreal, Québec

pachyderm is a rare alliance between an Englishman and a Frenchman – Tom Jarvis (guitars/vocals/keyboards/bass) and Nico Braesch (drums/percussion/vocals)

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