Frozen Feet

Day #2 in the 7in7 challenge--create a song every day for seven days.

Listen for the same melody repeating three times, with different accompaniments each time it repeats. The form of the piece is AAA.

(labeled No. 2 because I have No. 1... I just haven't finished it yet. Additionally, this recording isn't great.. The goal is just to get it out there, not to master or perfect it for now :)

Things Are Not Always What They Seem - No. 2

Day 3 out of 7! 

This one has the same format as No. 2, AA'A'' or ABA', where the middle A section may almost be its own section (B). 

The left hand is the same throughout the piece (called an ostinato), so listen as the harmonies change in the right hand, but not the left. 
I wanted to use the ostinato here to explore more of the theme; if this piece were played by just the left hand, it would be a very dull piece, hearing the same texture over and over and over. Yet along with so many changes, you only realize at the end that you're hearing the ostinato much differently than you began. Things are not always as they seem at first.

Things Are Not Always What They Seem - No. 3

cosa rara

cosa rara (feat. David Sylvian)

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza • Saber Tooth Millipede

its good to take time. 

even if it takes the rest of your life. 

Take Some Time

Glasz is the new collaboration of Jim Evens (Helen Stellar) and Jonathan D. Haskell (Seven Saturdays). Their second single, All My Songs Sound Alike These Days, is available streaming December 2nd and on iTunes December 9th.

All My Songs Sound Alike These Days - Single

All My Songs Sound Alike These Days

Babel

From the debut album Light.  Available June 1, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://julianadaugherty.bandcamp.com/
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/light/1352432904?ls=1&app=itunes
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv148

It’s hard to imagine that Juliana Daugherty’s softness and subtlety could materialize amid the tumult of current-day Charlottesville, VA, but every mode of being continues in the people of Charlottesville, as it does elsewhere, despite the impressions headlines might give. Despite the societal ills that dominate our screens, private struggles still exist, and Daugherty’s debut Light gives them palatable, manageable, and satisfying form.

“I wrote this record partly to strip mental illness of its power,” Daugherty says. She adds, “There is nothing useful or beautiful to be gleaned from the experience of depression.” Though this statement seems contrary to the romantic tone of Light, it’s refreshing to hear an artist speak of their own depression with objectivity, unwilling to be charmed by the gloom. Daugherty wields her songcraft like a sword, not a diary to be buried in a drawer.

As one listens, it becomes clear that Light was not a title chosen despite the gravity of its subject matter-- romantic struggle, abject depression, and throbbing vulnerability-- but rather in service of it. Light, so to speak, comes when we give shape to what haunts us.

Light  

Juliana Daugherty - "Player"

For Yosemite - 1. A View (2016)

My guest mix for April's edition of @un1tedinflames with @mmmmalibu

tracklist: https://imgur.com/w7UDF1y

Boston Camerata - Fare Well Ye Green Fields
Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since Passed
Benjamin Britten - Spring Carol
7038634357 - A Ribbon for Red Lana
Oklou - 22
Gautier De Coincy, Andrew Lawrence King - Ja Pour Yver
Holy Other - Yr Love
Mikey Enwright - The Word
Coldplay - Reign Of Love
Cedric Madden - Heaven (Bieber remix)
Mikey Enwright - Damascus
Mikey Enwright - It's Nice to Have A Friend (T Swift remix)
Antonio Vivaldi/Max Richter - Winter: 2
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Wii Menu Music
Boston Camerata - Hatfield

For Yosemite - 1. A View (2016)

Alex Choyce

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