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The Ballad of Canon Fulbert

Bono was in South Africa this week to join those paying tribute to Nelson Mandela at Tuesday's memorial service.

'In Ireland,' he says, 'A wake is never without humour but it's fair to say we lean heavily on the melancholy… one thing I love about Africa is they accompany the departed with dancing, lots of it, and music full of joy.'

On Thursday, 'Ordinary Love', the song the band wrote for 'Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom', was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and today the band wanted to share Paul Epworth's new version.

'We think Paul Epworth's mix is a very soulful, uplifting one and we hope our audience will agree,' says Bono. 'Nelson Mandela's life and times meant more to me than I can ever tell you, I would need a hundred songs to do that… but this complicated little love song to Winnie and South Africa is the one that landed on our lap.

'I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for believing in us and the film. This is truly a great honour.'

Ordinary Love (Paul Epworth Version)

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Third of September

Please excuse the meows where real words should go.

Jamuary 2025 - Day 2 - Cats

Kind of a 12 bar dark shoegaze thing that came out of nowhere

Jamuary 2025 - Day 3 - Pitch Instability

Added violas this time and got it done in under 2 hours!

Jamuary 2025 - Day 4 - Upgrades

Poor time management left me needing to just crank one out. A little slap bass, one of those weird "hollowed out" beats, and here we go.

Jamuary 2025 - Day 5 - Slinky

Quick one before I travel. Cellos and violas, yadda yadda yadda

Jamuary 2025 - Day 6 - Reendtroducing

A little under the weather today so keeping it in the box. Just a little something that all came together from playing with weird instruments.

Jamuary 2025 - Day 9 - Sideswipe

I made this track initially with my friend Neal (not on FAWM) who does sound design. Thought of doing something experimental with world music and Neal's sonic stuff. I did the piano/ chimes, a bansuri flute (a nod to Neal, who's from India) and ethereal /outer space (?) Gamelan (I grew up in Indonesia). And then @splittybooms here really sprinkled some magic here with voxx, percussion, otomatone sounds and effects!

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[ keywords ]
scifi, post-cyberpunk, reminisce, rooftop, restart, makeshift, gadgets, scientific

[ inspo ]

- zootopia
- Crescent City
- music festivals in the 2010's
- lofi art
- model UN
- childhood dreams - nom tunes

[ story ]

it's the year 3000. we're going to to the suburban areas. they might not have Neon City's shiny and new scyscrapers, but they are still built on remnants of abandoned cities. there aren't really countries anymore after the Big Flood and the Variant Plagues wiped out more than half of the population in the year 2500. though most knowledge of everything is backed up by cloud since 2025 with AI, countries still fell, and the remaining people from different nationalities gather have decided to come together for survival, trade and protection.

everything in this Zone is also now becoming high-tech, but overall was still significantly cheaper to build than Neon City. the mutated, colorful foliage that's been let to grow with the buildings created a unique atmosphere, as if nature is still trying to take over the world. race and cultures blend together, but also still really the value the preserving and treasuring what has been passed down to them from their predecessors and ancestors.

Someone sits by the Stream, looking into the entrance of the underwater village part of the Zone. People have found a way to build and live there too.

Monsoon Whispers (with @Splittybooms and Neal)

So much confusion
When autumn comes around
What to do about October
How to smile behind a frown?
It's hard to settle down

It's so bemusing
Will they cancel the parade?
We marched each October
Now they say we were never even saved
We must be very brave

Shall I rewrite or revise
My October symphony?
Or as an indication
Change the dedication
From revolution to revelation?

So we're all drinking
As leaves fall to the ground
Because we've been thinking
How October's let us down
Then and now

Shall we remember
December instead?
Or worry about February?
Mourn our war-torn dead
Never seeing red?

Shall I rewrite or revise
My October symphony?
Or as an indication
Change the dedication
From revolution to revelation?

Pet Shop Boys, My October Symphony

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