what's been recorded and what not...
A short introduction to some of CN's recordings from 1999 to 2003 by Lara Levan.
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2003 |
Dog E.P.
With a total length of more than 70 minutes Dog E.P. is not really an EP anymore. Amongst strangely nice semi-acoustic and electric guitars there comes along this weird organ. And not that Nova had left the organ's unique sounds somewhere you might've expected them - he as well lets the organ player perform whole songs only with his instrument plus analogue effects. |
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Band: CN (vox+gt); Lara Levan (ac.gt); Bo Hamon (organ); Henri C. (gt); Cris Street (ape piano). erbmoh ,noitnevni s'avon kralc era sretcarahc lla |
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Tracklist: 1. Lean on me 2. Bo Hamon #1 3. Dead Ends 4. Don't Call 5. Short While 6. Bo Hamon #2 7. Waiting for Jenny and the Dog 8. Got out to go 9. Darling, I think 10. Into the Canyon 11. Bo Hamon #3 12. Golden's Piano Girl |
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2003 |
Acoustic Recordings
This small but very intimately sounding six-song-CDR was recorded in CN's (at that time) quite messy room in the backyard of some very rotten house in East Berlin. + + + not available anymore + + + |
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2001/ 2002 |
Dead fish I best
After moving to Berlin Boris [Klabunde], Mirco [Koehler, Fuse-Empire] and Clark declared Fish (no symbol, no band - just that animal in the water) to be one of God's greatest gifts to mankind. This, the consequently switched their nutrition, and the conclusion that fish to be eaten is dead fish, made Clark wanting to name his new record 'Dead Fish is good for your health'. It figured out that neither Boris nor Mirco would be able to remember the name of the record correctly and Clark took the printed layout of the cover and threw it away. Weeks later he found that sheet of paper which now read 'Dead fish I good'. |
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2000 |
Outtakes
First thought - best thought. Thank God this bullshit isn't right. Clark once told me that his first thought by starting the recordings of 'Outtakes' was to re-record some of the songs already bound together on 'Good Morning, ...'. In his eyes they weren't recorded straight enough - which wasn't that wrong, but... Well, but juvenile and easily led he couldn't let his hands off from recording new ideas and very soon about 30 new songs were put on tape. Not letting loose the thought of re-recording older songs, he "merely" released 'Outtakes' as a fine compilation of outtakes. For that the very first mixing from 2000 sounded a bit poor sometimes, the whole record got totally remastered in 2002. |
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1997 to 1999 |
Good Morning, Francis B.
This first of all Clark Nova Records includes as well very early recordings on two-track as the first four-track-recordings CN ever did. Never again he has put such a huge amount of tracks on 4.75 millimeters of tape with such a transparency. (One reason of course might've been the brandnew recorder which until its retirement in 2002 had recorded more than 500 versions of more than 300 songs. i estimate this machine has made it about 800 hours of working time - without ever being cleaned at all!) |
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