SWAMPSONG		MIDI	MP3	MP3
1.	Key-In 1	2.09
2.	Key-In 2	1.27
3.	Waitwood	1.45
4.	Swampsong 1	11.47
5.	Trail	1.01
6.	Pianoforte	1.40
7.	Spacewater	1.26
8.	Harmonious	1.45
9.	Arpeggious	2.31
10.	Oscillations	1.49
11.	Swampsong 2	6.12
12.	Mellodious	1.05
13.	Silent Spirit Glides during a warm afternoon on Taros-3	4.54
14.	Modulations	2.03
15.	Sequence 1	0.55
16.	Co-Chordination	2.09
17.	Tape Run	0.48
18.	Sequence 2 & 3	3.42
19.	Metamorph	1.07
20.	Stringed Dream	1.12
21.	Sadness	1.23
22.	It Was?	2.29

* This album was originally recorded in mono and has been post processed for stereo using Goldwave,Cool Edit and Nero software.
Track layering has been done by overdubbing using ULTRA and SHARP cassette tape recorders.

Instruments used

• Compute-A-Tune
• Home-made electronic oscillators based on 555 timer chip
• AM modulator ["Funny Talker"]
• Electric guitar and Maplin Wah/Fuzz pedal
  

Personnel

Lee Borrell : Keyboards and Oscillators,whistling,anything that acted as a drum
Carl Borrell : Electric and Acoustic Guitar and Oscillators

History

Swampsong represents the earliest recordings made using electronic circuits to make sound and the earliest monophonic membrane keyboard the "Compute-a-tune" which was capable of holding sequenced notes in memory as well as being able to alter timbre.Mine is still functioning to this day and has been "circuit bent". This album was highly influenced by early Tangerine Dream and at this time neither of us were musically trained and the equipment was limited and highly variable which is why pitches do not remain where they should be,nevertheless some of the tracks stand as testimony to early experimentation and after being processed for stereo can sound more impressive than they did when originally recorded.
At one time my ULTRA cassette recorder had a resistor box put into it's remoted switch socket to control its speed - which is why eventually it started not keeping pitch and then gave up the ghost altogether. The tracks that exploited speed effects have disappeared into history.

Swampsong was loosely based around the atmosphere created by Tangerine Dream 's "Stratosfear" which featured a track called "3am at Swamp in Okefenokee",their rather bizarre titles created track names [such as 13] on Swampsong and the idea of being near a swamp is what Swampsong [Track 4 & 11] were meant to represent. Listening back I am impressed by the sound of the jeep aaproaching and the plane flying over at the beginning and end of Swampsong2.

Track 10 is a zillion overdubs of oscillators until they sound like radio noise.

Track 14 is a sequence stored in Compute-a-Tune played through an AM modulator resulting in the ring-modulated sound..

Track 19 was loosely based on TD's "Through metamorphic rocks".

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