28FEB2019: Polishing up a track from 2015.

02MAR2019: Pretty happy with this version...

Cool Drink On A Summer Day
words & music by Dave Read

lyrics:

This is a story about a time when the world was new
Work hadn’t been invented and there was nothing to do
We come upon a man - maybe a boy - with ambition in his bones
He’s thinking up something special: gonna polish some stones

So long, so long, the day is gone
So gone, so gone, the thought is done

I’ve got a dollar in an old suitcase
I’m gonna drive my car all over the place
I’ll burn that fossil fuel until it’s all gone
I’ll write by candlelight to finish my song

I know I’ll find you
I know I’ll find you
It’s all behind you now

The stars twinkle while they’re hanging in space
The nights are lonely, the days hard to face
I feel I’m running by myself in a race to nowhere

So long, so long, the day is done
So gone, so gone, now there is none
So long, so long, so long
I’m gone, I’m gone, I’m gone

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Cool Drink on a Summer Day

Cool Drink On A Summer Day

ham and cheese sandwiches are available in the reception area.

Music from the solo project Cosmic Address, and collaboration projects Pacific Deep (with Carl Grace), isunray (Jay Hay), and a few other collaborations.  

Synths & Drums: Roland JX-8P, System-8, D-05, TR-8 (with 7x7 expansion), Moog Sirin, Korg Arp Odyssey, Behringer Model D, Korg Modwave

DAW: Cockos Reaper, ReasonStudios Reason
Primary Virtual Instruments:  u-he Repro 1 & 5, Diva, Korg Legacy Polysix, M1, Wavestation, Mono/Poly, Synapse The Legend, Obsession, Antidote, Dune, TAL Uno LX, Arturia Collection.

#80s #retro #synthpop #synthwave #synth

Updated 17MAR2019:
An old man reliving the joys of his youth, when he was blazing trails into analog synthesis at the the Boston School of Electronic Music in the 70's - currently using Propellerheads' Reason V10 with various Rack Extensions and VSTis... 

A variety of tracks in various states of completion...

Some songs , some instrumentals, some loops or soundtrack-appropriate tunes, in a variety of "styles".

All are original compositions. All music and lyrics by Dave Read, except where noted.



Check out @BSEM for tracks made by me and others at the Boston School of Electronic Music during the 70's.

Also check out @ameebadood for tracks by me and Judy Rochat done in the early 2000's.

And now epiphany algorithm @epiphanyalgorithm : Collaborations between me and Scott Kauffman (Daughters Of Industry, Rent Me, Current Device). (Our previous "band" name "YOINK!" was being used by too many other soundcloud folks.)

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Fear No Idea!

Here is my "other band": https://soundcloud.com/fin_end

I am willing to do vocals for other artists if you think it would fit your music. If you leave me a comment or help to promote my music I will do my best to reciprocate you, and although I go through periods where I step away from Soundcloud for a few weeks, I will always come back to check on things and hopefully get inspired to write again.

Cool Drink On A Summer Day

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