Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

Crystal Haze is Pt1 of a Pop-Rock Opera Jean & The Plasticine Machine - the first serious attempt at a concept album in 3 decades. Inspired by the literary work Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, these works will take you on a musical roller coaster, with the songwriting rule book torn up, re-written, then torn up again and tossed through the window...

1. Sugar And Poison 3.12

2. Shooting Star 3.05

3. Shake It Like That 3.54

4. Shout It Out 2.58

5. Sunblind In Vegas 4.11

6. Shine (enter Jean) 5.32

7. The Plasticine Machine 4.24

8. Say Hello 3.27

9. Crystal Haze 2.28

10. Schizophreen 3.59

11. Come On Within 4.10

12. Don't Walk On By 4.19

13. Sunshine
14. Life Revised (Jean's Ascension)
15. Convalesce

Any budding stage / screenwriters are welcome to collaborate on this project

Tracks 3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,15, 16 recorded entirely on Mac iBook. Tracks 1,2,12,13 recorded at The Gunnery Singapore. Track 8 recorded in a campervan in a car park.

"Speed is like a dozen transatlantic flights without ever getting off the plane. Time change. You lose, you gain. Makes no difference so long as you keep taking the pills. But sooner or later you’ve got to get out because it’s crashing, and all at once those frozen hours melt through the nervous system and seep out the pores".

— Withnail & I

An extract from Part 2

"Wind down the windows, close all the doors
Turn on the lights, got my foot to the floor
I'm burning through state lines following stars
On a trip round the moon and a journey to Mars.... and I'm free

Through the Golden Gate we'll drive this car
On a savage journey to the heart
So wind down the windows- I'm going out my mind
Chasing the white lines and knocking down signs... but I'm free"

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Friday, 4 January 2013

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