With the new moon of 15 June comes the Dark-Side Mix of A Hard Lesson, by Tchad Blake.
The new mix is available to hear now – LISTEN HERE
It’s a quirky, strange and long track but it’s a journey. It’s about trying to find a place, your place, how you fit in. I’ve enjoyed playing with old R&B and folk references as well.
It’s one of those songs that has been in the ‘almost’ category on a couple of earlier projects but it’s had to wait 30 or 40 years before actually hitting the surface. Sometimes things take time – most people do stuff a lot faster – but I have no problem with understanding my own process. Some things will mature and evolve spontaneously and some will just stay hidden-away in a box until their moment in the light appears.
This has had such a long history and I think the number of people who’ve contributed to this at one time or another probably outnumbers all the contributors for the rest of the album. I’ve enjoyed so many of the things that people have thrown at it over the years that it’s been ‘assembled’ if you like, a bit like a jigsaw.