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Dubstar Preludes, Vol. 1

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Dubstar Preludes, Vol. 1 --- 2020-09-25

iTunes digital retail version. "What do you call it when you complete a song, forget about it…then it re-emerges somehow, years later when you think you’re writing something new? That’s what you’ll find in the Dubstar preludes, the precursors. The original songs that were the unconscious starting points for new, often completely different songs. Most of these tunes didn’t have titles, there wasn’t time. They only survive on cassettes, scraps of notebooks, sometimes even Minidisks (I LOVED Minidisks). Luckily, what I lack in photos and diaries I can more than make up for with a huge archive of my writing that stretches back to the 1970s, covers the entire Dubstar era and much more. There are a lot of these tunes. So the Dubstar Preludes are a curio, a minor release, a glimpse at a different road that a songwriter could have pursued. Many of the completed Dubstar tunes are what happens when you get a second chance to pick a thread. The preludes are the original silk. I hope you enjoy them." ~ Steve Hillier More information available here: https://www.stevehillier.net/dubstar-25/2020/9/24/dubstar-preludes-volume-1