Music

January Egg Race Dream by Thomas Truax

Tom Jenkins | Tuesday 1 February, 2011 12:43

Following on from Darren Hayman’s ‘January Songs’ project, New Yorker Thomas Truax has set himself the slightly less demanding goal of writing, recording and releasing a new track once a month, throughout 2011. The idea is to produce a ‘living, mutating album’, influenced by the ‘changing of the seasons… dreams, personal and world events as they unfold’. His first offering is ‘January Egg Race Dream’, a slightly sinister, spoken-word piece about the cruellest and most preposterous of all school sports day events – the egg and spoon race.

As an aside, it’s a wonder he has time to make music at all, what with a sideline in inventing unusual musical instruments, such as the amusingly named ‘Hornicator’ and the ‘Stringaling’ – what appears to be a small bongo, attached to a tumble dryer pipe. All tracks are available for free, for a limited time, via Soundcloud. Catch him at The Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus, on February 20th.

Thomas Truax – January Egg Race Dream by snipelondon

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