Of all the acts upon the diverse roster of
talent at Nice Mind Records, by far the most curious and ill-defined are The
Support Band otherwise known as Support Band.
The Support Band (aka Support Band) are a
nebulous entity, a bit gassy and shapeless. Certainly out of shape. They don’t
tend to talk as such, but if you can tune into them you can sort of guess what
it is they are trying to communicate.
I’d heard of their existence a few times
before the first time that I actually encountered them which was in November
2019 at White Gables Recording Studios when they kind of just presented
themselves unannounced although they did have a very familiar feel to them, if
you get what I mean? That they were always here, just unnoticed. They actually
have a bit in common with wombles as they like to use things that are lying
around, although the rubbish that the Support Band use tend to be bits of sound
that are left lying unused by Nice Mind Records artistes. So it was in November
at the inaugural session of White Gables Recording Studios that The Support
Band presented themselves.
Now, what I’ve disclosed about The Support
Band so far, may make you feel a little unnerved by the gaseous entity, but
there really is no need to be. It’s a truly benign organism. I get the
impression that they can be relied upon in a time of crisis to fill in when the
label needs a hand and thereby the audience. I do know that they respond well
to the burning of myrrh, so I have to make sure I keep stocked up on that for
whenever they feel like summoning themselves. They were very happy that the myrrh is from Mount Athos which they communicated to me is a great place to hang out.
For NICE004, which is the first
Nice Minds Records release to be recorded at White Gables, The Support Band
found an unused instrumental acoustic guitar progression of mine that I hadn’t
done anything with and they strangely morphed it into a spacious, healing sound aura which they impressed upon mine and my label partner’s minds should be
named in honour of the broth that we had fed them. (Most of which I cleaned up
later as they can’t really eat properly). Cob was broth’s supplementary piece
of music that they left us with to put out to an unsuspecting public as the
label’s first release recorded at White Gables Recording Studio. The recordings you hear on NICE004 are as they were presented
by The Support Band in the studio in real time, as we understand it. I’m not
sure how they understand time...
I don’t really know what else to say about The
Support Band. They’ve since done something very strange to the already a bit
weird Telstar which opens the label’s monthly podcast. I’m not sure where they
picked up the submarine that they put on that... They do seem to keep popping up to lend a nebulous hand with label duties, so I'm sure it won't be too long til you hear of them again.
Thus ends the blog on The Support Band NICE004
which counts towards part of your 5 a day.
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