Laudanum Forest music is inspired by:
music of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, today, 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, ...
> THE ASYLUM - 2008
1) Breeding
2) The Asylum
3) The Witch
4) Scrooging Away
5) Once I Came
6) Checkpoint Incarnation
7) Only One
8) Snail
9) A Second Part Of Time
> DIGGING THE BASEMENT - 2007
1) Hard Way
2) Female
3) Sticking In A Muddy Black Pool
4) Sweet
5) Wrong Day
6) More Guts
7) Fake The Pain
8) Maureen
9) Take Care
10) Catch Yourself
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.
>> If you want to read the whole story about these songs, here is a document written by Naf himself!