Days without sleep
New songs: (Phase one)
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Electric Lines (3.44 MB 3:44)*
March Of The Time Bandits Pts 1&2(4.77MB 5:12)^
Electric Lines (Second Take) (2.43 MB 2:38)*
The Amazing Swine Flu Song (1.78 MB 1:56)*
Feed Every Soul (3.55MB 3:52)
* Recorded 06/12/2009.
Dylan P.-Guitar on Electric Lines/Lee M.-Vocals/ Harmonica/Perc.
Lee M.-Guitar Vocals on Swine Flu Dylan P. Background Vocals Percussion
Early takes of songs.
^ Off the upcoming soundtrack-oriented album DEATH:The Infomercial
Electric Lines: We both pretty much had fallen right into this song. I asked Dylan to come up with some guitar, while I flipped through my notebook. My thumb ended up finding itself upon this page of a recent poem about Electric Lines comprising the sky/world we exist. This was after recording a song called "She's Chain Smoking" which was created in the same manner. The melody just crashed in on the first version.. This is how we usually come up with a tune, Pieces will just mold together and we'll add more upon each take. The second take came out well, but I had this itch, having to record another version. Well, we did and the first song posted is the third take of this song, recorded on a picnic table 06/12/2009. This tune was by far the funnest to record, next to "She's Chain Smoking."
Lyrics to this song are posted here
March Of The Time Bandits: The intro piece has been sitting around for a while. Collecting dust in a giant cabinet of yearning songs for almost a year. Some are good, some are terrible, but I always had a fondness for this one. However, the original song it had led into seemed more like a Star Wars theme song than anything else... So, Later I had come up with another track, which needed an introduction. That track became the second half of this song. The introduction very much reminds me of the beginning soundtrack to Jon Carpenter's "They Live." A sub-conscious inspiration? Possibly. Apparently, this song version was completed on 04/21/2009, while the intro was created on 03/28/2008. The song is going to be on the Death:The Infomercial soundtrack-themed album that I have been gritting my teeth editing and comprising,re-ordering and nitpicking songs for some time now. My objective to this song is for the listener to get the same feeling hearing it as I do. Almost some sort of militant fantasia with scenes being carried out to each second.. A heavy daydream. That is the point of this album it is being added to, a Soundtrack for the mind. No moving pictures needed (Though I'd love to create a film and score the music someday, If time allows.)
Electric Lines (Second Take:) This is where we were flexing and shaping the tune right after the improvised structure of the first take. I like recording this way. Over thinking and manipulating a song can be alright sometimes, but there is this stress from the universe and self that builds up so often. It needs to be released... It all comes punching out for me in a situation like this. Sometimes there will be little messups that add character to a song. Maybe my voice ain't the best, but the feeling you have from playing music, knowing you have that same feeling going through you that can't be beaten out, that truly represents the music, and finding an off-the-head home for some lyrics to reside.. well... You can't explain it really. You can take the words whichever way you would like. I put a bit into these words and there are multiple meanings. If you take the symbolism of the "walking on all fours segment," that comes from the ancient stories and tales of the Sphinx and passing the test whereas the answer is man. I could go on and on about the meanings, and probably will concisely someday, but it's always funner to at first see how other's will recieve the lyrics.. Or to see if there was a meaning that was unintentional, as that often happens and can be very, very interesting. (I still like the 3rd take better!)
The Amazing Swine Flu Song: Does this tune really need a write-Up? Haha, alright now.. It's fun when in a good mood, or it can annoy the hell out of you.. But hopefully it won't. It was blast to record at least. I didn't know what to say! But it was said. Things were still recording and we didn't feel like quitting the tunes yet. The avian flu, mad cow disease and anthrax are all getting jealous. I randomly plunged chords and Dylan tested out his new drum. I hope you remember to wash your hands (Please don't get vaccines.)
Feed Every Soul: I had a short write-up and posted lyrics to this song here
"If you can’t change your own life then you’ll never change anybody else."
Simply put, I see so many people trying to turn the world in many different a direction. Is it not insensible to tell people to change their own ways, beliefs and overcome struggles when we ourselves refuse to look into our own ghosts or skeletons in our closet? Our own little changes to self: There's always this need to let anger overtake. I've noticed it within myself lately.. To let the lower vibration of stress, fear, insecurity over run. It is really within us, to our own consent to let this takeover that allows the state of things to be in such a situation. To be bluntly put, we must get our own shit together and figure our own lives out before expecting the change to be put forward, and doing so could offer some of the best results to be seen yet. A balance, more or less, personally. How many cultures have recommended a certain balance? The thinker must think and the doer must act but having one without the other can over weigh one trait.. I'll allow myself to think upon that for a little while, and others hopefully to do so as well, before getting more into it. (From Greek, Egypt, Sumeria.. To practice the physical, the mental, the spiritual.. To never be almost too certain of yourself or ability.) Anyhow, this song is floating out among space much like the "Enter Aquarius" track from a while back, and will eventually find a home in a very, very vocal album, but right now that will be very pushed aside.
Thanks for taking the time to listen/read these write-ups,
Lee.
