EDIT// I thought this could fit the theme of outsiders! :)
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I have always loved sojushots' amazing illustration "let down your hair", and now it inspired me to write this song. It's a bit darker than the original story of rapunzel, just like the illustration. The same story, different ending! :))
I would love love love loove it if someone would add some accordian or strings to this song, you know, to build it up bigger, and then maybe in the final verses also some drums..... it would be awesome...... ;)
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Here are the lyrics:
A man came across this old tower one day It was straight like from a book he once read He lifted his head up and saw this young lady And here's what the lady said:
CHORUS "Moi je m'appelle mademoiselle Noir Et comme vous pouvez le voir Je ne souris, ni ris, ni vis Et c'est tout ce qu'elle a dit"*
The man was so scared he could only run away He ran to the town and then said: "I just saw a lady with the longest dark hair And I think she's a living dead!"
The people, so scared, took their guns and their swords They ran to the tower and then They saw the pale lady and felt a great fear When they heard how she said it again:
CHORUS
The people, they knew what this all was about She was clearly a demon from hell They decided to set her long hair on fire In the end it would burn her as well
But the lady was no demon she was a lonely soul Just like in that book they once read Still waiting for her prince while her hair was on fire The one last time she said:
CHORUS
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(*"Me, my name is miss Black And like you can see I don't smile or laugh or live" And that's all she said.)
Enjoy <3
//CHORDS were requested:
verse:
C#m, B, E
C#m, B, G#
chorus:
C#m, G#m/B, Amaj7
C#m, B/D#, A, B
E, G#, A
A, B
C#, G#, C#, G#
C#, G#, C#
Here's to Thursday, the misunderstood and underrated Hero, my favorite day of the week :) Everyone who agrees, join the jam! Some sexy saxophone to the last verse and grooving bass and drums from the second verse are desperately needed... Anyone in? ;)
Lyrics:
Thursday you are my favorite
You are the promise, you’re the hope
The other days might say
You’re only blocking the way
from the weekend, but I don’t think it’s so
’cause you are the breath before the break
you're the sweetest wait
Thursday you are my hero
You are the strongest of them all
When other days might rush,
you do your job no matter what
So gentle, yet so tough
You’re not as wild as Friday
Maybe not softer than Sunday
But still so sweet
Thursday you are my favorite
You are the promise, you’re the hope
When everyone complains,
You stay strong and show the way
Oh where would I be without you!
’cause you are the breath before the break
you're the sweetest wait
An old song close to me heart :)
Have you seen my old self?
I think I must have lost her
I wonder if I cost her
Her life?
Have you seen my second self?
She seems to grow younger
More delicate then ever
But never better
I am recycled cells
I learn to like myself
More with each iteration
Where is my restore point?
I found an old sore point
All disjointed
My file corrupted
Where is my replacement part?
I need another new heart
The other ones beat was
Interrupted
I am recycled cells
I learn to like myself
More with each iteration
I’m an experiment
Each trial is a test
Constant re-calibration
Little song I wrote and RECorded this morning-after-xmas. It's a genuine question, I still don't know...
The rhyming creation myth by wirrow and Metaphorest. I tweaked the words just a little, and my draft of the text is resourced below. And here I recorded a reading of it. There's already been lots of great readings of this poem, and I hope there are more to come. I think it might be cool to mix a grand multitude of voices together to tell this story.
The next thing that probably ought to happen is for visual artists to start drawing specific parts. Pick a stanza you like, or even just one line and turn it into any sort of image. Maybe pretty soon we could have a bit of a storybook slideshow going, which is usually an important step in big animation projects.
this was a few months in the making, and I'm very pleased to upload this as my 500th RECord :)
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okay, so there's quite a lot of things going on here:
the MIDI drum kit & percussion, distorted bass keyboard, and SLICER guitar are my original contributions.
the SLICER guitar parts are bits of guitar experimenting that I picked the most appropriate bits from and looped.
the audio of Joe is taken directly from his original video RECord.
the most unique thing about this mix is that, aside from the 3 edits I made to space out his differents parts of the speech, his audio is RAW AND UNEDITED - neither Joe's speech or my drums (which were made before the concept to put them together was made) were set to match one another - quite the happy accident there.
the distorted sounds you hear throughout the mix are actually Metaphorest's voice - her different vocal parts from "Weapon" in fact - spliced, stretched, and distorted
her voice appears elsewhere in different forms throughout the mix (she's the feedback you hear at the end)
the horns were the last addition. they RECorded their parts without hearing this mix, or even knowing how they would sound in it - which makes their seamless inclusion all the more surprising.
(big thanks to Marybeth & Kat for taking the time to RECord their parts for this)
I hope you enjoy this.
Robo J
This beat was made from the car sounds I recorded that you can find in a ZIP file in the resources below. I just love environmental music!
Drum Kit: Volkswagon Jetta
90 BPM
