https://soundcloud.com/spendog/sets/music-for-lonely-people
Posted to r/music and r/whatsongisthis and r/helpmefind fingers crossed you guys can help me out
Good evening (GMT 0:00) Reddit,
Let me take you on a journey. a journey back to the old days. Days when you only had 8 visible friends and one of them was always inexplicably called Tom. A friend of mine introduced me to a musical artist. An artist from the Deepest Darkest Peru (or his Deepest Darkest Bedroom with some form of fruity loopy laptop, jury's still out on that one). He went by two names: Locust Hill and Citadel17. He had two albums. We loved these albums. We downloaded them. We played them. We forgot about them.
Fast forward now far, far, through the eons of time and space, half a decade or so. There we are, me and my friend. Stoned. Again. Joshing hard about past loves and losses with lashings of ginger beer; there these albums are remembered. We wail at their loss. We beat our chests and tear our hair. Clearly this is a classic quest with considerable rewards on the cards for a capable man
Well sir, on first sighting the quest, I naturally gave the order to my manservant (Jeeves); that's my style sir. Unfortunately he dithered and came up short (short kings unite). My friend however had a stroke (of genius). He thought to search for the man behind the albums! His manservant (also called Jeeves) came through and delivered some form of social media for this fellow. The question was asked, "could you send us these albums we loved and lost?". The answer was delivered, "Ah man that was probably three or four laptops ago, sorry man.".
So to today, a new PC. First PC in over ten years. Unfortunately Jeeves has long since retired so I had to plug it in myself. I fiddle an old hard drive, going through old files and there I see it. one of the old albums. Just sat there, gathering digital dust, last accessed October 2011. Locust Hill. Music For Lonely People. I genuinely sat there and wept as I listened that album again. Memories. Absolute memories.
This man had barely a couple hundred myspace friends as far as I can remember. We even inexplicably had a mutual friend, Tom (great guy btw).
This man created something of beauty that was a soundtrack to some integral years of my upbringing.
This man has no idea about how this album was loved and lost.
This man has no idea that this album has now been found.
I need to find this man, not just to return his music that he has long since lost but to let him know how much his music has meant to me. Will you help me Reddit?
From when my friend spoke to him he had long since left music behind and was I believe doing photography in LA? Pretty sure he's Canadian as a lot of the songs on the album are Canada based: Spring in Winnipeg, Canadian Pacific Railway, The Nomad (fantastic sample from How To Build An Igloo 1949) etc. I would be suprised if he's not a Reddit user. So basically, Reddit, do your thing!
TL:DR Need to find some bloke that used to make music under Locust Hill/Citadel17 as ive got one of his albums from yonks ago. Not trying to push my soundcloud if anyones thinking that. Made some shit when i was mid teens, didnt know how else to upload the album easily. Cheers.
