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Tact Salon

by Normal Shed Uses

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1.
Bootless 01:19
2.
Wool-Stapler 01:10
3.
Glabriety 01:10
4.
Weasand 01:04
5.
Saturnism 01:15
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Plain Over 01:07
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Dandiprat 01:02
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Overbrim 00:59
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Sennight 01:09
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Otherwhere 01:11
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Pouncer-Box 01:05
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Furbish 00:56
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Quick, the 01:02
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Dispraise 00:58
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Love Apple 01:10
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Camelopard 01:03
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Peccant Peeler 01:10
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Nubbing Cheat 00:57
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Ambuscade 01:12
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Sippet 01:15
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Circumjacent 01:06
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Crinkum Crankum 01:15
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Small Beer 00:57
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Husbandman 01:06
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Herbary 01:12
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Lief 01:05
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Mooncalf 00:54
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Orts 01:06
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Sea Coal 00:55
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Yciept 01:14
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Intelligencer 01:06
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Bethink Oneself Of 01:04
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In Sooth 01:08
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Kirtle 00:57
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The Morrow 01:40
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Thereunto 01:19
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Lordling 01:13
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Nithing 01:08
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Hereat 01:08
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Pismire 00:51

about

Normal Shed Uses approached Tact Salon by downloading 220 chords from a muso website and printing them out. They then cut them all out individually and put them into a hat. It was decided that no chord would be used more than once and that all the songs would be (roughly) one minute long. They figured out that a classic length 40 minute album could be made up from four sets of ten songs, each comprised of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 chords without repeating a chord. The chords for each song were drawn from the hat and subsequently discarded, as was the tempo and time signature of each song.

Scott started by laying down guitar tracks for each track, followed by Alan’s Fender Rhodes piano. They then both added various other instruments - sax, trumpet, flute etc...

The finished result unsurprisingly sounded like jazz, confirming the duo’s suspicion of how jazz musicians work. Although they did actually perform the entire album live with vocals, they decided to release it as an instrumental album, allowing the listener to improvise their own lyrics over it.

credits

released June 30, 2020

All songs written by Alan Holmes and Scott Saunders
Scott Saunders: guitar and other instruments
Alan Holmes: piano and other instruments

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Turquoise Coal Wales, UK

Turquoise Coal started in 2012 as a depository for archive recordings of north Wales music. Later that year we became a record label and have released several vinyl LPs, CDs and downloads. Some can be found here, and will be continuously added to over time. All our releases by Spectralate can be found on the group's own site (see link below). ... more

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