Band Spectra: heavily inspired by an overdose on the toxic news cycle!

Band Spectra is the moniker of UK musician & producer Robert Manning. The Anchoress has teamed up with Band Spectra for a politically charged new single Human Reciprocator which is released through The Music Federation.

The new single has been inspired by West Germany’s 1970s Krautrock movement, coupled with the vocal expressiveness of David Bowie’s Low album and is the first single to be taken from Band Spectra’s forthcoming debut album.

Says, «Human Reciprocator, the first song written for the album, started as a primitive idea: a 909 motorik beat; a driving Moog bassline and Leo Abraham’s cacophonous experimental guitar saw the tentative beginnings of what (18 months later) translated into the perfect hostile foundation for Catherine’s powerful and veracious political lyrics».

Lyrics:

I’M A TRAINED ORATOR

A SKILLED MANIPULATOR

I WAS BORN INTO THE RANKS

WHILE YOU WERE BRED FOR FOOD BANKS

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WANT FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

I AM A NATURAL LEADER

YOU ARE THE TRUE BELIEVERS

I SEE THEM SCRAPING ON THEIR KNEES

THEY RECOGNISE I’M THE ELITE

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WORK FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

I’M A PUBLIC SPEAKER

FORGIVE MY MISDEMEANOURS

MY MASCULINITY – A CRUTCH FOR MEDIOCRITY

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO BEG FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

I AM A NATURAL LEADER

YOU ARE THE TRUE BELIEVERS

SO DON’T LISTEN TO RUMOUR

(WELL DRESSED LIKE THAT WOULD YOU BELIEVE HER?)

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO REPENT FOR A THING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

I HAVE ALL THE DATA

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

I HAVE FRIENDS IN SUCH HIGH PLACES

THAT MY PRIVILEGE ERASED IT

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO ANSWER FOR A THING IN MY LIFE

I CAN RADIATE IT

I WON’T RECIPROCATE IT

I WILL ASK OF YOU THE THINGS I’LL NEVER EVER EVER DO

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WAIT FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

I’M A SKILLED ORATOR

A TRAINED MANIPULATOR

I SEE THEM FALLING AT MY FEET

THE MAN THE WOMEN WANT TO MEET

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO ASK FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

WHILE YOU WERE BRED FOR FOOD BANKS

I WAS BORN INTO THE RANKS

I SEE YOU SCRAPING ON YOUR KNEES

YOU RECOGNISE I’M THE ELITE

NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WAIT FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

«Human Reciprocator was heavily inspired by an overdose on the toxic news cycle, ruminating on privilege and abuse of power in politics, deception, hypocrisy and the slow slide into a Britain steeped in poverty and a cost of living crisis while a political elite bluster and lie their way through a decade in power. Growing up with periods of my childhood relying on free school meals I am increasingly horrified at the proliferation of reliance on food banks while those in power become ever more detached from the realities of the working classes. Human Reciprocator is a reflection on the current state of affairs«».

«Band Spectra began as a therapeutic endeavour following a passing recommendation by a neuropsychologist to use music as an aid to try to combat a decline in my health as a result of Multiple Sclerosis,” adds Manning. “Recognising the frustrating lack of visibility and significant barriers faced by disabled musicians within the music industry and with the help of Arts Council funding, I made an album of remote collaborations during a challenging period of shielding, with the intention of celebrating and raising awareness of disability and diversity».

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