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Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Up North (Stuttgart, 30th March 1991)

Visit Bill’s online store for exclusive and signed items: https://www.shorturl.at/adnpq A period piece from some thirty years ago. This was a foundational song for Earthworks - one of our earliest, and a prominent track on our first album. The ‘North’ in the title refers to the north of England, known among many things for its collieries and the brass band tradition. When we had coal mines, every one seemingly had a brass band, and Django’s E flat ‘peck horn’ is evocative of that. I had the chordal movement in the drums (sounds weird writing that), and asked Django and Iain to write a top line for it. It’s an evocative, nostalgic melody. This was good time for me, although wrestling with the emerging electronics was not something I relished. If I was going to get to grips with programming synths and linking together complaining bits of kit with MIDI, I was going to need a payback. I spent months with hexadecimal code, and it was a heavy ride. But eventually the results came and could be spectacular: ‘Industry’, ‘Waiting Man’, and ‘No Warning’ from King Crimson; Stromboli Kicks’, ‘Bridge of Inhibition’ and ‘All Heaven Broke Loose’ from Earthworks, for example. As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, in the 14 or 15 years I was actively onboard with early Simmons electronic drums, I guess I gave rise to no more than a couple of dozen compositions that were absolutely a function of electronic percussion, and whose charm arose uniquely from that instrument. At about one a year, that’s not a great output, given the time it took. But I don’t regret a minute of it. I was driven by both the necessity and the desire to find unlikely things to do on a drum kit, and Up North was part of that. Django, Tim and Iain were encouraging, and brave enough to stay the course, sure in the knowledge at least that was going on behind them would make them sound different. The ease and facility with which current players use more streamlined versions of hybrid electro-acoustic kits is something to behold: guys like Jojo Mayer, Andy Gangadeen or Thomas Strønen. But we could do worse than to remember Thomas’ mantra: “Everything is possible, but everything isn't necessary”. Too right, Thomas. #earthworks #electronicdrumkit #billbruford #drummer #tamadrums #kingcrimson