Zoe (Quartic Process), by The Shifting Sands

Zoe (Quartic Process)

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1.	Zoe (Acoustic Demo 2007) 03:18	info	buy track
2.	Zoe (Bedroom Emolectro 2007) 02:36	info	buy track
3.	Zoe (South Dunedin Version c. 2011) 04:16	info	buy track
4.	Zoe (California Dreamin 2017) 03:57	info	buy track

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Sometimes I wonder if there is a point to this, and if there is, what it might be. I've wondered whether I create either for the benefit of, because of, or in spite of my mental health. Do I do this for some kind of therapy? Or am I just crazy? Or was I fine until I started doing this and is this perhaps making me crazy? I don't know if it even matters what the answer is, and maybe it could be one of those option D: all of the above type answers anyway. Being monistic is a dangerous prejudice.

I haven't been productive with songwriting for a couple of years, and I am trying to spend more time on it presently, trying to get familiar with the process again, see if I enjoy it, need it, hate it, or hopefully even love it. Or perhaps hard determinism is true, and the world is a vast chemical reaction stretching out from the big bang, and I'm just some kind of determined reaction, and this is just what I am doing due to a long chain of causes that stretches back to where there weren't even chemical compounds, let alone conscious species, and this is just the way she rolls.

I think what I enjoy the most about music is the process of making it. This might seem incredibly self-serving, perhaps dull and narcissistic. And perhaps it is. I guess I find it interesting. Some others might too, one can hope, but one can never be sure. But I've here included four versions of a song that I first wrote in 2007, after my first long term adult relationship - the 18 - 23 kinda years. I say adult, but looking back now, that makes me laugh. I had a productive phase of writing after this break-up. I didn't care for much else, and I wrote many of the songs I am the most proud of during this period. In many ways I think this is because this is when I spent the most time doing it.

These four versions of this song demonstrate something about process, two bedroom demos exploring different vibes, one attempt at a semi-proper quality home recording, and one band recording in a studio in Los Angeles.

Anyway, I'm not sure if a songwriter's existential crises are really any different to anybody else's. What's the point? Is this a terrible misguided and embarrassing waste of time? Or, hey, I think I like this. Maybe I need this. Life's very peculiar, and this is something to occupy my mind for a time. That will do.

Harry Nilsson's 'The Point' is the best way to approach the first of the questions in the paragraph above. And, 'whatever' is the best answer to the second.

Here's four versions of a song I wrote and like. If you are bored or curious, you're most welcome to them. Come on in, if ya wanna.

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released January 2, 2020

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The Shifting Sands Dunedin, New Zealand

A psych-folk/ space-rock psychedelic pop project from Dunedin, New Zealand,

The Shifting Sands is the songwriting work of Mike McLeod and alternate between the dreamy and the urgent.

While the hyper-melodic jangle-pop sometimes references the “Dunedin sound”, the injection of synthesiser, sitars, violins and whatever is at hand are thrown into the mix to turn everything on its head.

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