Back When We Were All Machines

Quiet intro: 12 seconds.
Acoustic and gentle: 40 more seconds.
Then drums and bass kick in, until almost the end.
Quiet ending: the last 20 seconds. Does not fade out.

Watch the YouTube music video here!

Music by Cindy Kallet
Lyrics by Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen

Cindy Kallet - guitar and vocals
Grey Larsen - anglo concertina and vocals
Paddy League - bodhrán (sampled)
Izzy Maxwell - additional sounds and manipulations

Music recorded and mixed by Grey Larsen at Sleepy Creek Recording, Bloomington, IN
Mastered by Mark Hood at Echo Park Studios, Bloomington, IN
Arranged by Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen with Izzy Maxwell

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Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen, internationally acclaimed touring musicians, were in bed one morning (the same bed), waking up to news on the radio, when all of a sudden they were yanked from slumber by an unremitting rat-a-tat-tat musical barrage sandwiched between program segments. The mechanistic din penetrated Grey’s morning fog deeply enough to cause him to half open his eyes and murmur, “Makes me feel my robot roots . . . back when we were all machines.” Cindy, by now fully awake, with antennae ever alert to life’s pithy moments, swiftly and secretly captured these words on a dusty scrap of paper excavated from the bedside table. Soon after, she had cast his mumbled morning musings as the chorus of a new song, "Back When We Were All Machines."

They then sent the song to their friend, musician and studio engineer Izzy Maxwell, who gave it a tasteful industrial, other-worldly musical touch.

Eventually, it had to happen, and it did: you can now view the (in)famous online video in which the musically adventurous acoustic duo explores their robot roots on the rocky coast of Maine.