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I come from the clouds

from we wuz curious (2008 mistLY masterpiece) by dave graney

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“We wuz curious” is , lyrically , probably the most autobiographical work by Dave Graney with 5 of the songs starting with the perpendicular pronoun “I”. It is also very much a “band” album with each player of the Lurid Yellow Mist collective contributing music for a song .
Within the songs, looking outwards , you could say in one place that its a
jazz/r&b album, elsewhere its pumping electro , over there “yacht rock” , elsewhere, wailing post punk. Lets call it a pop album.
“ I come from the clouds” is where Dave Graney lays down a bragging blues with a film noir twist. “I’m the man from nowhere/ I’m a tail dragger”. The music could have come from Graney and Moores first band , The Moodists and is perhaps the noise thats always been heard by them way underneath all the soft and sexy sounds they’ve drawn around them over the years.

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I come from the clouds
I’m comin’ from the air
My feet seem to have never touched the ground
I come from the clouds
I talk of operational matters
I spill the beans
I come from the clouds
my footprint is airborne
light on my feet
my trail is in the sky-
the wind blows me
I come from the clouds
out of the sun
it’s a scam
It was important for me to cut through
I come from the clouds
I was a chance then
All the doors and windows were open and the car was moving
I come from the clouds
I’m the man from nowhere
I’m a tail dragger
I’ve been around- not around you
I’m here now
I come from the clouds
I speak through a fog
a lurid yellow mist
accumulated myth
I come from the clouds
nothing is relative
I kicked a goal
I ran from the players and towards the crowd
I never stopped
I found myself in a strange and quiet place
Its what I wanted I guess
a foreign land
the future
I come from the clouds
always, even to myself
I can’t help it now
old photographs ,old songs
Insects trapped in amber, loaded with the future
I wanted to escape into the open-
I come from the clouds

credits

from we wuz curious (2008 mistLY masterpiece), released October 9, 2013
players involved
Dave Graney, electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
Clare Moore, drums, percussion,vocals
Stu D aka Stuart Thomas, bass, vocals.
Stu Perera, electric guitar.
Mark Fitzgibbon, piano.

mastered by Greg Wadley
Cover illustration by Tony Mahony.

Recorded September 2007 at Sing Sing South.
Engineer Adam Rhodes.
Mixed at the Ponderosa October-November 2007 by Dave graney and Clare Moore
Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

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Dave Graney and Clare Moore were once in the Moodists, singer and drummer respectively.Then there was the Coral Snakes and and now Dave Graney and the mistLY.
Stu Thomas on bass since 2004 and Stuart Perera on guitar since 1998 ... more

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