Six Scores, by Neil Campbell & Richard Youngs

Six Scores

by Neil Campbell & Richard Youngs

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140 g LP. Edition of 300.
Mastered by Sean McCann.
Printed inner sleeves & jacket designed by Devin Friesen.
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2.	Perhaps Forbidden 09:04	buy track
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6.	Not Tutankhamen 10:09	buy track

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Neil Campbell and Richard Youngs – Six Scores
(SBM021) LP edition of 300.

Neil Campbell and Richard Youngs were offered a duo gig in Leeds, and realized they had not done anything as a duo since the How The Garden Is LP over fifteen years ago. Opting for an entirely different approach, this time they decided to do “songs." There were some rules involved.

Both agreed to pick one instrument each, plus vocals. Richard chose violin, and Neil chose Casio. After coming up with six song titles, lyrics were written independent of one another. The next task was to write six scores that would be played by the other, so each would be singing their own lyrics while also attempting to play the other’s score.

For the gig, neither showed the scores to each other beforehand. Neil made verbal instructions, “sometimes elaborate, sometimes simple, that I thought might cause Richard some problems performing.” Richard’s scores were long, carefully notated pieces that, in Neil’s words, “would definitely cause me some problems, as I don’t read music. To compound it, he later told me most of them were unplayable anyway.”

Their contributions were recorded independently, without reference to the other’s playing. Neil took effort to play the actual notation as closely as he could, giving each piece a general tonality. He recorded three tracks and told Richard the track lengths, so their contributions would be the same length. They recorded three songs each in this manner, eventually mixing each of their contributions over each other so that any interaction between their playing is coincidental, with only key and track length forming the cement.

The resulting LP is suitably puzzling, a playfully rigid yet entirely absurd set of score-based songs from two of the most frequently intriguing headscratchers out there. They were also kind enough to let me include bits and pieces from the actual scores in designing the sleeves, so lyrics, unplayable notation, and printed verbal directions are all included, if you’d care to challenge a friend.

--D.F.

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released September 22, 2017

SBM021

Neil Campbell: casio, voice
Richard Youngs: violin, voice

Mastered by Sean McCann
Design by Devin Friesen

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