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Whispering Foils

from Whispering Foils by Kev Hopper

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The tune started out as a saw idea - sort of corny hammer horror - very grim and terminal sounding. After a while the tune began to evolve and split up into a guitar part and saw part. When I played it to Janie she added a few chords and harmonies. It then went through a long gestation period were it was all reorganised into 3 discrete sections and the marimba, vibes and flugel were added giving it a lighter, more cloak and dagger feel. It ends with the sound of ropes clinking away on boat masts - that’s my favourite sound in the whole world. The original inspiration came from several idyllic childhood summer holidays at a rented bungalow in Humberston Fities near Cleethorpes. I used to fall asleep to this sound. Incidentally, this is exactly the same bungalow as Robert Wyatt mentions on his ‘Schleep’ album sleeve notes. Recording this sound proved difficult as I couldn’t really organise going up to Humberside. In the end a friend of mine, Ian Hockerway, recorded the masts at the ‘poor-man’s marina’ in Brighton.

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from Whispering Foils, released January 1, 2000

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Kev Hopper London, UK

Over the years I've been involved in three bands: Stump in the 80's, Ticklish in the late 90's and 2000's and Prescott since 2012.

In addition I have made over a dozen solo records; most of them available here.

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