Editing An Eagle in Your Mind - bocpages

{{Infobox Song|
| name=An Eagle in Your Mind
| runtime=6:23
| appearson=[[MHTRTC]]}}  

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==Comments==

*All of the percussion on "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]]" was created using cut up samples of [[Michael Sandison]]'s girlfriend's voice ([[Interviews#2002-07-01:_Remix|Remix Magazine, 2002]]).
* A video (made for the [[WATMM video contest]]) was created for "[[An Eagle in Your Mind]]" by "[https://on-go.bandcamp.com/ Jesse Anderson]" using stock footage sampled from Tatsuo Sato's anime film "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385586/ Cat Soup]." This video also offers an interpretation of the vocal sample heard during the track.

==Samples / Lyrics==

The song samples the documentary On the Tracks of the Wild Otter (1983). The sample can be heard at around 26:40.

<nowiki>all atop of the santcus
high above the sea
a safe place on all counts
a great place</nowiki>
*At 1:53 an unidentified speech sample (thought by some to be the voice Welsh actor [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535053/ Philip Madoc]) begins narrating a story. It is difficult to understand, but thought to be the following:
<blockquote>
"the holts are nearly always close to sea<br />
fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs<br />
all at the top of a sand edifice<br />
high above the sea<br />
a safe place for cubs<br />
we wait, tense<br />

we're disappointed<br />
she leaves her [?] loaded by others of us<br />
the holts are evenly spread<br />
about 500 meters apart [?] or so they advertise"''
</blockquote>

* Another variation is as follows:
<blockquote>
"Holts are nearly always close to the sea,<br />
fallen boulders, old ruins, and cliffs,<br />
all atop the sand edifice,<br />
high above the sea:<br />
a safe place for cubs.<br />
We wait ... tense. We're disappointed. <br />
She leaves her [?] to look for [others?]<br />
The holts are evenly spaced, about 5 meters apart, <br />
Only enough to fool the passers-by, or so they advertise<br />
I love you"
</blockquote>

* [Simon Wilkinson] suggests similar words, with a few minor changes:
<blockquote>
"She leaves us [wait?] [loaded for others of us?].<br />
The holts are about 500 meters apart,<br />
And of use only [?] pass us by, or they [advertise?]"
</blockquote>

* [Simon Wilkinson] also points out that the voice sounds similar to that of Welsh actor [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535053/ Philip Madoc] (heard very briefly here at links Simon provided: [http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/misc/main/fivetoeleven1988.rm], [http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/misc/main/fivetoeleven1988b.rm].

* Thanks again to [JimE] for noticing something else:
<blockquote>
"there's a background sound throughout the song which could be "sweat-sweat" (in the first part of the song), with  "tension" coming in later. It's hard to recognise as speech, but it could well be; one of the interviews says that the "percussion" in the track was constructed using the voice of the girlfriend of one of [[Boards of Canada|BoC]]."

* A voice that sounds like a black male singing "No" fades in at 4:35 and continues throughout the song.  (Sounds like another 70s/80s disco/funk sample)  At 5:27 A scratchy sample saying "Yeah" is played forward, then backward, then forward again, with some additional scrubbing in between.  At 6:00, "Yeah" plays again, but only once.
</blockquote>

==Trivia==

*This track's title is referenced in "[[Sunshine Recorder]]" on [[Geogaddi]]

== Videos ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id= xf66Lmrqk00|width=300|height=300}} {{#widget:YouTube|id= UVMh7r0LHW4|width=300|height=300}} 
(skip to 26m40)

== External links==
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMh7r0LHW4&t=26m40s On the Tracks of the Wild Otter]

== References ==

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Music Has the Right to Children tracks]]