“Star Setter”
by Sky Sunlight Saxon
2005 song
Following on from the "Little Red Book" of the same style, Sky Saxon is again (or still) fried out of his brain in Transparency‘s third song, "Star Setter". Over a soft day-glo Bo Diddley beat Sky begins his thing, already in mid-flight:
Flying high in a robin-egg sky
Flying high
Well I’m eight miles high
And indeed he is. Keen Sky listeners will be able to instantly detect the change in his voice from, say, "You Gotta Ride", the CD’s leadoff track that, while, floating and strange, was at least sung with some focus. "Star Setter" sounds like a psych-garage band from 1966 with the 70s-era Sky Saxon of Yodship on vocals.
"Star Setter" (its title based on some aimless riffing Sky does about a “jet setter”) is about floating, about being high. What apparently happened is the Lighter band recorded a groovy little jam, enlivened as ever by a Daryl Hooper-esque soap-bubble keyboard, and told Sky to just free-form over it. There’s a magic to the end results – it may be simplistic and druggy, but it’s honest.
And where else but "Star Setter" can you get the invincible line “she has a mane just like a lion, I just wanna stroke her”?
