Project: alphabets
Series: Album a Month — Month 11
Release date: 2009-11-29
Archive location: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/NOV09
Tracks: 15 (16 files including one .asd session reference)
Format: MP3
The most historically significant of the monthly albums. NOV09 contains two track titles that would become defining names in Colin’s legacy:
“bliss body” — A track here in November 2009 became the name of a memorial concert held in 2018 after Colin’s death: Bliss Body: A Tribute to Colin Ward. The phrase originates here, nine years earlier.
“run it run it fantasia mixx” — The earliest known reference to Fantasia in the archive. Fantasia as a named event/concept dates to at least November 2009, predating the first vaulted Fantasia (2012) by over two years. The track name suggests Fantasia already existed as a running concept by this point — the “mixx” suffix indicating an ongoing series or recurring event rather than a one-time thing.
“run it run it hrt throb mixx” (track 15) is a parallel mix, suggesting NOV09 was being used as a space to develop the Fantasia sound: mix tracks named alongside the regular tracks.
15 tracks in total, the album’s range moving from nova brrrrr open (the cold December ahead) through shiva body (Hindu deity of destruction; a body made sacred) to puke up hugs (physical intimacy and nausea held together), closing with the bliss body slow-down and the hrt throb mix.
Track Listing
- nova brrrrr open
- shiva body
- hits and flutters
- bouncipears
- moves bursts insides guts (duplicate track number in archive)
- chop hair new news
- pill cause be
- bliss body
- run it run it fantasia mixx
- puke up hugs
- floats and sensuals
- melt down up
- snow slipping
- blssbdyslowdscrwd (slowed/crowd edit of “bliss body”)
- run it run it hrt throb mixx
Archive Notes
- File dates: 2009-11-29
- “bliss body”: Track 8; nine years later became the name of Bliss Body: A Tribute to Colin Ward (2018 memorial event). The phrase almost certainly took its name from this track.
- “run it run it fantasia mixx”: Earliest archive evidence of Fantasia as a concept/event; predates the vaulted Fantasia 2012 by 3+ years
- blssbdyslowdscrwd: An abbreviated title — “bliss body slowed (crowd)” — suggesting a performance version or edit
- Duplicate track 04: both “bouncipears” and “moves bursts insides guts” carry the same track number; one may have replaced the other
- .asd file present for “shiva body” — session reference from a later (2016) Ableton session, suggesting Colin revisited this track years later
Archive: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/NOV09