I once got a package of tapes from Ken Clinger. A package of tapes in a shoebox. Tapes wrapped in old socks. This package arrived this week and it’s filled with CDs with homemade covers. Ken has a naming system for his CDs he’s been using for years. A naming system no doubt invented to catalog his prolific work. He has KCollab (up to volume 28), and KC (which is for solo work) and KCM (which is music without voice). Something like that anyway. And there are lots and lots of collaborators on these CDs in this envelope stamped with Marge Simpson and Atticus Finch.

Oh, I’m actually one of the co-conspirators, having supplied a Ken a backing track for his song, “Clinger & BF Baker – Rainbow Serpent“.

While driving home yesterday I was inching through traffic and listening to something of mine when a big construction truck came squeeling up, lumbering past me. The sound it made fit in perfectly with what I was listening to. It was some kind of huge cross between strings and horns that was awesome.

I really wish I had something to record it at the time.