HUMMING
From the album 'Portishead'
[6:02]
LYRICS:
Closer
No hesitation
Give me
All that you have
And it's been so long, that I can't explain
And it's been so wrong
Right now, so wrong
Naked
My thoughts are creeping
To late
The show has begun
And it's been so long, that I can't confess
And it's been so wrong
Right now, so wrong
Is it all as it seems
So unresolved, so unredeemed
If I remain, how will I know
And it's been so long, that I can't be sure
And it's been so wrong
Right now, so wrong
CREDITS:
Written by
G Barrow/B Gibbons/A Utley
Musicians
C Deamer : Drums
A Utley : Moog
COMMENTS:
B moive suspense. Dave
A hard track to finish. Geoff
More theramin fun for all. Adrian
Inspired by an old sci-fi film. Geoff
We worked on this beat for ages. Adrian and
[conductor] Nick [Ingman] put the strings
together, and then we put them on cassette
and worked it like a normal sample. It's a
weird thing - it ended up sounding like a
sample from a record, but we know what we
went through to get it right. It's satisfying
that it was actually our music and not
somebody else's. Geoff
Humming starts off like the Day the
Earth Stood Still, an old sci-fi film. And I
wanted to do something that was more
straight-up in a sense of beats. We ended up
having about 15 different arrangements for
it, we spent ages in the studio literally
just rearranging it and mixing it. It's an
odd one. I really liked it when we initially
did it, then I didn't like it in the middle,
even though it was Adrian's favourite track.
It's going to take a while for me for it to
grow because what happens when you spend so
much time on something you just lose
interest. I'll most probably listen to it in
a year's time and say that's alright. At the
moment it's difficult to talk about because
every time I talk about it I just think about
those 15 arrangements. Geoff
