Laudanum Forest music is inspired by the sounds of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, today and tomorrow.
Monty Python,
dreams,
Star Trek,
Ritchie Blackmore,
I Claudius,
anxiety,
Benny Hill,
true love,
the graveyard scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
vodka,
youtube, ...
Discography
The Asylum
1.
Snail 04:24
2.
The Asylum 04:27
3.
The Witch 07:37
4.
Scrooging Away 04:58
5.
Once I Came 03:49
6.
Checkpoint Incarnation 04:45
7.
Only One 05:46
8.
Breeding 04:28
9.
A Second Part Of Time 06:45
The Asylum may sound very familiar although there is nothing that sounds like it. That is because the familiarity is not really in the songs, words, tunes, but in the feelings that we recognise. There is the darkness and light, there is fear and courage that comes from despair and there is hope that knows it has lost but still shines its quiet naïve light. There are all the things that we can't name.
Agnieszka Holm
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Digging the Basement
1.
Hard Way 04:19
2.
Female 03:50
3.
Sticking In A Muddy Black Pool 03:09
4.
Sweet Pink Flowers 02:27
5.
Wrong Day 03:04
6.
More Guts 03:00
7.
Fake The Pain 03:35
8.
Maureen 04:05
9.
Take Care 03:32
10.
Catch Yourself 02:56
The songs on “Digging the Basement” represent our past and our second lives.They where played by Side Traffic, IZL and Mondegreen: 3 names this band had during its existence (1996(?) – 2008) and Zeno, an older band Pat and Naf played in before they joined Side Traffic.
Here’s a list of the song in order of their “birth”, based on when they were written. 1) Take Care (Laudanum Forest): It’s about focussing on the basics in life. 2) Wrong Day (Laudanum Forest): it’s about nothing whatsoever. 3) Catch Yourself (Laudanum Forest): It’s about trying to feel happy about breaking up. 4) Fake the Pain (Laudanum Forest): It’s about trying to feel sad about breaking up. 5) Sweet Pink Flowers (Laudanum Forest/ Tony Torfs): It’s about the majority of mankind: the mentally ill.
6) Maureen (Laudanum Forest/ Tony Torfs): it’s about a pretty nurse (who used to be in the army if you like). 7) Female (Laudanum Forest/ Tony Torfs): It’s about conservative boy schools and about women being the root of all evil. 8) Sticking in a Muddy Black Pool (Laudanum Forest/Rajesh de Waal): It’s about a disabled guy using his handicap to seduce girls. 9) More Guts (Laudanum Forest): It’s about news correspondents making career on the misery of disaster victims. 10) Hard Way (Laudanum Forest/ Tony Torfs): It’s about fugitive bandits and their girls back home.
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6) Maureen (Laudanum Forest/ Tony Torfs): it’s about a pretty nurse (who used to be in the army if you like).