Indian Summer by Laughing Sun

Words by K.Staple Music by G.Davies/K.Staple/P.Kay This arrangement by Laughing Sun Recorded 11th September 1985 at 31 Cowick Lane, Exeter, UK

Ken Staple: vocals, then bongo George Davies: acoustic guitar Pok: bongo, then lead guitar

INDIAN SUMMER Burning incense on the breeze Floats out of your room Falling down the corridors of yesterday Feel it in the air Maybe it’ll be coming your way

Carry me away Indian summer Carry me away It’s been so long Carry me away

Standing on the doorstep Dancing round the room Rainbow dancing showers on the lawn Never thought at all That it would ever fade away

Carry me away Indian summer Carry me away It’s been so long Carry me away

Passing places full of you No longer seems to be Too far behind, too far away to see If I close my eyes I can sometimes drift away

Carry me away Indian summer Carry me away It’s been so long Carry me away

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Laughing Sun - Cander (1985)

Cander is the name of the earliest surviving recording of Laughing Sun. It is a Wud Dictionary term meaning ‘a meeting of friends after a long time apart’.

Here are the considered musings of the Pokstar on the subject of Cander:

“These recordings document a September 1985 cander between Pok, then Simon or Fooog Dinboffin and George a.k.a. Fedax Si-Hulmin. These are sessions where songs written down a couple of years by then were given an arrangement, however primitive our attempts to capture them.

These are teenage ravings at the centre of Pok’s world view, about girls (She’s Beautiful), decadance, paranoia and teachers (We Know You Well), vision and fragility mission statement (Wanted to be a Singer), the loss by genocide of the native Americans and general early eco lament directive for that generation written 1983 (It’s a Blue Sky Don’t Hold No Rain):

“What have we done to the Mother Goddess Gaia? Why can’t we nestle in her warm aching bosom?”

Indian Summer is a delicate evocation of its subject by George and our friend Ken. Ken sings and George plays acoustic guitar while Simon Pok plays idiosyncratic bongo then lead on Ken’s black Shaftesbury electric.

This was the start of collaborations becoming Laughing Sun, which shone briefly through 1985 and 1986, doing a few gigs around Devon and the Glastonbury ’86 Travellers’ Stage followed by early Ozric Tentacles (Jumping Jon remembers this!).

This period is where we are finding our sounds, following a scent or something, heading for what would become. The simple, pretty uni-chordal We Know you Well is a Mark Drower rhythm style rendition that pursues its theme relentlessly but continuously changing and it is a gas to hear it again.

More early formulations to come.”