It was late … he hadn’t slept in days … but he had to keep going coz he just needed to know what it was that was out there.
From outer to inner space, and all the bits in between, ‘Eric Needs To Know’ searches through the sounds that inhabit these realms, and sticks them together in various patterns … sometimes random, sometimes planned, but always interesting.
The sounds can be intense in one track, and drifty in another, but allow yourself to listen to them, and you’ll hear the layers within each.
He has been producing for nearly 10 years, but only recently has started to be satisfied with the pieces he has been completing. Past outings have made it onto Belfast-based compilation CDs, and online radio, but it’s time for the chrysalis to spread it’s wings, and with his first solo album ‘Deleted & Restored & Dropped Again’, Eric Needs To Know will stand to answer those questions.
The title comes from having accidentally deleted a whole hard drive of audio work, covering about two years of production. After the initial shock, a bit of fishing around on the net found a piece of software that would repoint the flags to all the data, and thankfully with all the file names intact. Having backed up about half of the data things were looking good when the hard drive was dropped whilst moving it between two computers, damaging it irreparably and lost about a year of audio & video work ... nice!!!
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2006
Red Label
1) Inner Space
2) Quirky Keys
3) That Wasn’t An Aspirin
4) Speedle's Tower
5) An Estate Agent For Us All
6) Hey Rocky Answer The Phone
7) Falseness
8) Comets, Craters & The 4th July
9) Walk With Me For A While
10) The Pre-Dunk Jam
11) Welcome To The Land Of Oog
12) Valkries Dance
13) Saucepan Fech
Two years of building loops and snippets here and there came to a head in September 2005 when I took 3 weeks off and just sat in the studio going through everything I'd created up until then and stripped out the best parts and ideas. I then focused on creating completed tracks that felt good to me ... whether they necessarily made sense in terms of song structure, sound acocmpaniment or anything else didn't really matter.
These tunes are the result.
The title comes from having just completed the album tracks, and whilst attempting to back everything up, a wrong button was clicked and the whole hard drive deleted. After a small depression and couple of drinks, Twinkle came to the rescue with a prgoram, found on the t'interweb, that could rescue all the deleted files and put them back where they were supposed to be.
Hence 'Deleted & Restored' .. the album that almost never was.
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2007
Red Label
1) A Man Accepting Life
2) Breakaway
3) Bumps On The Skin
4) Having A Sneaky Smoke
5) I'm Tired & I Wanna Go To Bed
6) Last Minute Defeat
7) Look At The Company You're Keeping
8) Spam Quietly
9) The Earth Is Being Watched
Some of these tracks were created before & during 'Deleted & Restored', and will probably be re-visited again at some point in the future for a bit of tweaking. And then a couple of them have been created since I finished D&R.
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2006
Red Label
1) Bob Meet An Experimental Composer
2) Wally's Tune
3) Cherry Blossom On The Electric Grand
4) Chicago 1971
5) Fat Boy Remix
6) Head First Into The Marmalade
7) V&A Shhhh
A mish-mash of some of the other tracks completed to date .. again probably will be revisited at some point in the future for additional tweaks.
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It's one solid track & not broken into it's indpendent tracks ... so no forward winding unfortunately.
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2005
N/A
1) Human Resource - Dominator
2) Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner
3) Travis - Baby Hit More One Time
4) Goldie - Inner City Life
5) Lou Reed - Walk On the Wild Side
6) UFORB - Towers Of Dub
7) Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
8) Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
9) Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
10) Blue Jam - 4 Foot Car
11) Jimi Hendrix - Foxey Lady
12) Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
13) Morrissey - Every Day Is Like Sunday
14) Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
15) Dj Vadim & Sarah Jones - Your Revolution
16) Screamin Jay Hawkins - Heart Attack & Vine
17) Louis Armstron - Mack The Knife
18) Specials - Ghosttown
19) Star Trek [German]
"I just wanted to do a mixture of some of my favourite songs, and put them all on one CD .. and this is what came about."
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2005
Red Label
1 - Bob's Sounds
2 - Did you Say Rock
3 - Bob's New Sounds
4 - Chicago 1971
5 - Bob Says Advanced Technology
6 - Farting Chipmunk
7 - Hold Up Bob
8 - Radio Flick
9 - Irish Sea Shipping Forecast
10 - Radio Flick
11 - Long Wave Orchestra
12 - Radio flick
13 - Bob Funk
14 - Radio Flick
15 - Station Debunk
16 - Bladder Jazz
17 - Station Debunk
18 - Sugar Overload
19 - Reagan's Alien Threat
20 - The Start Of The Invasion
21 - The Aliens Are Coming
22 - Earth Is Being Watched
23 - Lt's Go Back To Bob
24 - Radio Flick
25 - Weather Lady
26 - Radio Flick
27 - Long Wave Welsh Choir
28 - Radio Flick
29 - Bob Makes An Important Point
30 - Saucepan Fech
"I wanted to have a go at getting to the Red Bull Music Academy in Rome in 2004. You could either do a mix, or do a collection of tracks that you had produced. So I put together a mixture of samples from podcasts they had of Bob Moog, from the year before's masterclasses, and mish mashed them a bit, then through in tracks that either I, or the Men In Speedos, had done for Red Label. It was called The Moog Story, & unfortunately I didn't get selected, but maybe another time."
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ART TRAIL, CORK
In 2005 Cork was the European City of Culture and Art Trail, a voluntary Arts organisation, were in their 10th year, and were hosting Soundworks for it's second year.
They presented a program of international, European and local artists, composers, writers, theorists and performers.
St Vincent's Chruch was the Open Submission venue for the selected international artists, one of whom was Gawain Morrison otheriwse known as 'Eric Needs To Know'.
Below is a series of photos showing all the 'speaker sculptures' that he created for his submission.
The concept was a look at the language used in creating electronic music and the dual terminology that exists for these words inside the music-making community and those outside it.
From 'Delay' to 'Envelope' there are terms that have very different visual connotations when used in the 'real' world and this was a humourous sequence of pieces showing those alternative views placed on top of a range of speakers as plinths.
