Silent Partner (song) with David Downes

This is one of a series of songs I wrote with David Downes during and shortly after my student years in Wellington. We started with a looped keyboard sequence which David applied wonderful transformation to, keeping it alive throughout the song. It evolved into this dark fable of an old friend arriving at an isolated house on a rainy night.......

We approached a drama student at Victoria University to read the text. I can only recall his first name - Eric.

Whiel I came up with the opening sequenced material, the process of creating this song (from my perspective) was one of staying out of David's way as he applied his tastes, talents, impeccable timing, and studio wizardry to the material. He was amazing to be around and, I understand retrospectively, very tolerant of my 'creative lag'.

Our fellow students found this a disturbing creation, as do I now.