This latest track called Hidden Agenda from the experimental electronic duo, Superhand is available now via Soundcloud and explores silence & money. Superhand is a freak-blues music group based in Cardiff, South Wales, and one of the chosen artists to take part in Wales Arts Review’s most recent series, Artists in Residence. Throughout 2017 these artists will take a leading creative role in what Wales Arts Review publishes, centring their skills on a challenging project over the course of a month. We were inundated with applications, receiving hundreds of emails about the positions, and it was no easy task whittling down all that talent to this final eleven. Our team of six editors debated long into the night, and in the end, we decided on a collection of people who we most want to work with, and whose work excites us. We think you will be excited by them too.
This is a live improvised track, using our Moog Modular, drum machines, and vocal looper. We did minimum editing on this.
The subject was about events taking place- and my feelings on our society in its current state. I’m singing in a repetitive way- and in triplets- which is just how I felt to sing. I also have some similar words to “he had a vision” as we recorded these tracks during the same night- and I was thinking about religion and faith within society.
Lyrics:
Don’t you know its creeping creeping creeping in
Silently silently silently
Not so silently
Taking you down
Taking you down down down
Right down
Don’t you know
It’s gonna suck gonna suck
gonna suck Big time
gonna suck Big time
Don’t you know you
You ought to wake up wake up wake up
They’re coming in through the back door
Breaking it breaking it breaking it
Silently silently silently coming through the back
Don’t turn around now
don’t turn around
Don’t turn around now
There’s no return
We can can’t come back from this
We can can’t come back from this
Come back from this
Silently eroding your rights
Got to stand up stand up stand up
Learn to speak up
Ain’t nothing gonna come easy
Ain’t nothing gonna change ain’t gonna be So easy
Silently creeping in the back door
They’re Gona catch you out
If you’re snoring
If your creeping around sleeping you’re gonna get caught
They’ve come in the back door
Ideology Ideology ideology of idiots
It’s a hideous idiocy hideous idiocy
It’s a hideous Hypocrisy
A hideous society
Always up
Hideous
Hideous
Hideous
Hideous
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy
Hideous
Abhorrent
Abhorrent
Abhorrent
Horror
Horror
Horror
I don’t want to see no more
I don’t want to see with my eyes no more
I don’t want to see
I don’t want to hear
Want to see or hear no more
Silently creeping in
Silently creeping in
Silently creeping in
Not so silent if your awake
We all know they’re coming in the back door
Hidden agenda
Not so hidden
Hidden agenda
Not so hidden
Not so obvious not so hidden
It Doesn’t include you
No it doesn’t include you
No it doesn’t include you
Hidden agenda
Not so Hidden agenda
Not so hidden it doesn’t include you
You’re completely excluded excluded
Excluded from the party
We all stand around
worshiping the money god
We all stand around
worshiping the money god
If you don’t have the the money
If you don’t have the the money
you’re NOTHING
Get the money PLAY the game
get the money get the money play the game
Get the get the money get the money RUN
He thought there was god
He thought there was faith
He thought there was god in the sky
He thought there was a god
He was looking down on him
He used to pray to a false god
He used to pray to a false god
False prophets
False prophets
False prophets
All Stand around
Standing around
Stand around
Worshiping the money god
money god money god
Down we go down we go
Don’t you know the game
Stand up and say
Stand up and say
Stand up and say
Doesn’t have to be this
Doesn’t have to be this way
Look out
Look out
Look out behind you
Coming coming Coming through
Coming through
They’re coming through the back door
It doesn’t include you
It’s a game
It’s a game It’s a game
You can’t keep up
You can’t keep up
You can’t keep up
He thought that there was a god
He’s thought there was a faith…
This contribution, Hidden Agenda is a track and piece by Superhand as part of the Artists in Residence series.
