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Freak Scene

by The Silver Panda

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Freak Scene 05:08
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2.
Summer Babe 03:23
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3.
You Made Me Realise 05:13
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4.
She Rides The Waves 02:37
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So Stark (You're A Skyscraper) 03:57
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River Euphrates 02:50
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Alcoholiday 04:35
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Half The Time 03:57
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Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside) 03:39
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10.
Teen Age Riot 06:30
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[The Silver Panda : ]

"FREAK SCENE was our project to keep us sane over the 'lockdown winter' of 2020/21...

It started with us deciding it would be fun to make a record together... And then by chance Raphael hearing Sonic Youth's 'Teen Age Riot' again for the first time in many years, and saying, "this is such a great song", and then picking up his little orange 1/2 size Spanish guitar and saying, "It's basically a bossa nova...", and Maree adding a harmony...

Which began a journey through the noisy guitar records that Raphael loved as a teenager in London, but which Maree, right through the other side of the Earth in NZ back then, had never heard...

We wanted to find musical richness beneath the grunge, of which there was plenty... All that noise is musical richness itself of course...those saturated guitars are so beautiful... But what's left if you take them away?

So we assembled a set of songs - all from that magical, silvery age of '88-'92 - and set about turning them inside out...

We made a rule that we could only use what we had in our little flat (which luckily includes recording equipment and quite a lot of musical instruments), and we would do everything ourselves... And another rule that we'd only use acoustic instruments (to make our versions as different as possible), which we only cheated on with the bass guitar (which is semi-acoustic, ok?) and a sprinkle of Clavinet on 'Teen Age Riot' (which is also semi-acoustic, so don't get pedantic!)...

Mika, who was 5 years old then, established herself as our manager, insisted on choosing the band name, and added a couple of essential vocal contributions of her own..."

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1. 'Freak Scene' - Written by Joseph Donald Mascis Jr.
- Original version by Dinosaur Jr., 1988 (single A-side) -

2. 'Summer Babe' - Written by Stephen Joseph Malkmus & Scott Kannberg
- Original version by Pavement, 1991 (single A-side) -

3. 'You Made Me Realise' - Written by Kevin Shields
- Original version by My Bloody Valentine, 1988 (single/EP A-side) -

4. 'She Rides The Waves' - Written by Chris Cooper, Ian Masters & Graeme Naysmith
- Original version by Pale Saints, 1989 (from the EP, 'Barging Into The Presence Of God') -

5. 'So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)' - Written by Stephen Joseph Malkmus & Scott Kannberg
- Original version by Pavement, 1992 ('Trigger Cut' single B-side) -

6. 'River Euphrates' - Written by Charles Thompson
- Original version by Pixies, 1988 (from the LP, 'Surfer Rosa') -

7. 'Alcoholiday' - Written by Norman Blake, Brendan O'Hare, Gerard Love & Raymond McGinley
- Original version by Teenage Fanclub, 1991 (from the LP, 'Bandwagonesque') -

8. 'Half The Time' - Written by Evan Griffith Dando
- Original version by The Lemonheads, 1990 (from the LP, 'Lovey') -

9. 'Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)' - Written by Kevin Shields & Colm Ó Cíosóig
- Original version by My Bloody Valentine, 1988 (from the LP, 'Isn't Anything') -

10. 'Teen Age Riot' - Written by Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo & Steve Shelley
- Original version by Sonic Youth, 1988 (from the LP, 'Daydream Nation') -

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credits

released September 16, 2022

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MAREE CHOIE vocals, clarinets, baritone sax
MIKA MANN vocals
RAPHAEL MANN vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, percussion, ukulele, kalimba, glockenspiel, Clavinet

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Produced & arranged by Raphael Mann

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