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Spiderworks

by Øystein Sandsdalen

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1.
Incantation 02:54
2.
Three Themes 06:21
3.
Doorway 01:05
4.
Darbari 05:35
5.
Minor 9th 03:54
6.
Freeze 01:04
7.
The Bedroom 01:03
8.
Dreamland 01:19
9.
Vision 01:56
10.
Tool Shed 02:24
11.
The Janitor 01:02
12.
Branca 01:00
13.
Stinger 01:08
14.
Love Theme 00:48
15.
Woodland 06:03
16.
Clearing 01:57
17.
Lantern Party 02:37
18.
Winter Road 02:49
19.
Embers 04:33
20.
Ballad 04:38
21.
Old Railroad of the Mind 02:13
22.
C's Theme 03:05
23.
The Sled 03:24
24.
C's Blues 04:24
25.
Snowstorm 01:52
26.
Beat Jazz 02:44
27.
Tension 01:18
28.
Neon Mood 01:57
29.
End Credits 02:58

about

Spiderwoks is a collection of poetic bits and pieces collected over the years, becoming an assemblage of tracks to a soundtrack for a movie that never was.


1. "Incantation"
Like the title, this is meant to summon a spirit.
Open "Darbari"-tuned sitar, all strings strummed.
Home recording from the 2020s.

2. "Three Themes"
Sitar again, thru overdrive and delay, with western zither,
tuned after Glenn Branca's "Slow Mass". The zither track
plays thru laptop speakers, a round metal cake box lid,
covering the speakers, gives it a more metallic resonance.
Home recording from the 2020s.

3. "Doorway"
One of the three themes with a bass guitar playing a simple
goth riff. The Sitar track is played back, the bass is
just acoustic, played against a table for resonance.
Home recording from the 2020s.

4. "Darbari"
A slight attempt to play an improvised Darbari intro.
The "Palace Raga" is very similar in ways to the
"Laura Palmer's Theme" opening synth riff, that's
what drew me to it.
Home recording from the 2020s.

5. "Minor 9th"
This is the chord I use the most with Le Corbeau, I know
a lot of variations of this chord on the guitar. Here it's
just strummed as an ambient drone. Musicman tube amp,
'66 lipstick Jaguar, reverb and overdrive. Originally used
for an ambient instro version of "Night Stroll".
Inspired by the "Dirty Boots" intro.
Metronomicon loft, 2007 or 2009.

6. "Freeze"
Maybe it's just me, but it's so satisfying that these sounds
come out of only one guitar tracked once. Screwdriver-
trick, finger-cymbal circling the off strings. Lipstick Jaguar.
Spendless studio, 2012.

7. "The Bedroom"
Stolen title, the follow up to "Freeze" with one more
guitar in weird tuning, vibrato arm slid over the 12th fret.
Lipstick Jag again. Spendless studio.
Also from 2012.

8. "Dreamland"
4-track cassette. Recorded and mixed by Kenneth Amundsen. Without
the bird sounds. Silvertone 1457 and Kenneth's flat top.
Written 2002, slush-season lower Markveien.
Recorded 2006, beautiful Nordstrand in winter.

9. "Vision"
An unused guitar intro for what was supposed to be
the third Le Corbeau record. Reverb and amp
overdrive, Lipstick Jaguar, Metronomicon loft.
Sunlight thru clouds of exhaust in the 1980's.
Fog on a hilltop.
From 2007.

10. "Tool Shed"
Tried to make the music of lights flashing thru
a skeletal toolshed wall at night. Three acoustic
guitars, all with screwdrivers under the strings at
either 5th or 7th fret. Kitchen recording.
Coming of the virus, was it early 2020?

11. "The Janitor"
Double bass and noise-guitar with metal on the
pickups, and screwdriver under the strings.
Spendless recording, twenty-tens somewhere.

12. "Branca"
This is my very short Glenn Branca tribute,
with pump-organ and noise guitar.
It's based on the opening notes of "The
Ascension".
From around the same time as "The Janitor".

13. "Stinger"
Just a classic horror movie "stinger" track.
The big sound is a cowbell scraped along
an iron bar, I can't remember where the
microphone was, in my hand? Same noise guitar
set up as in "Branca" and "Janitor".
Same time and place.

14. "Love Theme"
This is what a love theme sounds like to me.
Pump organ, same session as "Branca".

15. "Woodland"
An Eko twelve string flat top, two toms,
cymbals, brushes and mallets, a Silvertone 1457,
and a Rickenbacker bass.
Supposed to be kind of foresty.
Twenty-tens, a Spendless recording.

16. "Clearing"
An opening in a forest. Home made cake boxes
banjo with a lot of untunable strings, on a weak
metal frame.
Early twenties.

17. "Lantern Party"
Old 8-track cassette recording. Fuzz Rickenbacker
bass (Ibanez "60's Fuzz"), drone Jaguar,
and screwdriver acoustic guitar miked with tiny
earphones in between the strings on the guitar
head.
From 2000 or 2001.

18. "Winter Road"
Same time, same recorder. Bumping and tapping
a switched off drum machine with digital delay,
earphone miked. Telecaster Deluxe and Rick bass.
2001.

19. "Embers"
Around the time of "Winter Road", trying to sound
like the Cure with a kind of shoegaze ambience.
Tele Deluxe, Rick in treble position, 8-track cassette.
2001.

20. "Ballad"
Unused guitar idea, sort of ambient, sloppy
6/8 strumming. Really happy about those
chords! Metronomicon loft, maybe 2008.

21. "Old Railroad of the Mind" (solo recording from
my time in Night Falls Fire)
Destroyed piano as bass, snare, toms, tambourine,
three guitars. Pretty much improvised, I don't
do that so often.
Spendless studio, probably 2012 or 2013.

22. "C's Theme" (solo recording from
my time in Night Falls Fire)
My only tune with a specific person's name
in the title, my son's mother. Best love so far,
this is her theme, the original version.
Spendless studio, end of 2012.

23. "The Sled" (solo recording from
my time in Night Falls Fire)
Brush stick drums and big guitars.
Lipstick Jaguar times two, acoustic
slide twelve-strings in the background.
2013, I think, a Spendless recording.

24. "C's Blues" (solo recording from
my time Night Falls Fire)
It was over, I was alone in Spendless again.
I can't remember exactly when. The instruments
were, Silvertone 1457 fuzz lead, bending the head
and neck for those harmonics, Jaguars in the
background, Musicman bass tuned low, chimes,
brush stick drums.
A lot of improvisation here too.

25. "Snowstorm" (solo recording from
my time in Night Falls Fire)
It's not about coke, just a musical impression of
a real life snowstorm in all it's glory. I borrowed
a home made tuna fish tin can crazy fuzz pedal
for this one, two guitars and drums.
Same time as C's blues, only much happier!

26. "Beat Jazz"
Based on "Tainted Love", "Creepin´" by
The Starlighters, and Gil Mellé.
Double bass, 4 bongo drums, a bell, tambourine,
a cymbal, finger-snapping...
Mid twenty tens, I'm sure...

27. "Tension"
Following up the kind of "beat jazz" from before,
a double bass funk build up, which then goes into...

28. "Neon Mood"
Third section of that double bass session, with
a bongo beat, brushed hi-hat, and other things
from "Beat Jazz". Neon can be beautiful, a lure
of the city...

29. "End Credits"
Drum machine and one guitar track, backwards fake
chimes. Part of an 8-track cassette session called
"Day in Darkness" from the early 2000s. These bass notes
are found in so much music and they always catch me, even
in styles I don't normally enjoy.

Will there be more Spiderworks in the future?
The bits and pieces are maybe there, but they need to
prove a kind of long lasting coolness beyond being
played to death a few times. At least to me...


Thank you!

Øystein Sandsdalen

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released November 20, 2023

Øystein Sandsdalen is a self-taught musician and artist. He made his first experimental guitar things at 16, and in 1997 he and his band The Jaded, opened up for Mogwai in Oslo, Norway. He has played in numerous other bands, such as Thee Unmist, Angora Static and Serena Maneesh. Le Corbeau is his current project.


All music by Øystein Sandsdalen

Mastered by Ernst Van Der Loo

Cover image by Carsten Aniksdal


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