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Awake Asleep
from Impossible World by Wilfred N & the Grown Men
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“Awake Asleep” is a song I was eager to let people hear, so I put it out on a digital (limited) album preview release titled “We’ll Get There First” in 2019 … the first-release of songs from the upcoming full album by Wilfred N & the Grown Men – “Impossible World”. In 2020 I made the video for “Asleep Awake” using footage from the Sulphur Mountain Gondola in Banff, Canada and the stunning Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland.
I remember how this song came about. I made and recorded the instrumental bed and then sat in front of my mic one night, very quietly, and just ‘said the stuff I said’ pretty much in one motion. I like working like this at night, very quietly and close-mic’d with the headphones fairly cranked. It feels like you’re in your head.
Time spent over the past two-years-plus has been rather odd. For no apparent reason – I don’t feel I was directly affected by COVID – my creative life became quite disjointed. The album “Impossible World” seemed to take ‘impossibly’ long to complete, although it was on the verge of being complete for the whole two years. “Awake Asleep” pretty much chronicles a year of nothingness.
I was awake. I was asleep. Nothing ever happens
