James Bond

Frosty Roses © 2023 Nadia Cripps, Andrea Brennan and Hannah Busse
Nadia Cripps (music, piano)
Andrea Brennan (lyrics)
Hannah Busse (vocal music, vocals)

Lyrics
It was Spring when you planted me roses
In the yard where the sun shone bright
I watered and tended them every day
They were the light of my life

Petals so tender and vibrant
Scent so sweet, it melts my heart
Like the gentle kiss from my darling's lips
And the promise we'll never part

Seasons turn even if we aren't ready
And cold grips til you give up the fight
A love life taken too early
Like frosty roses covered in white

Petals once tender and vibrant
Faded sweetness that breaks my heart
Like one last kiss from my darling's lips
The broken promise we'll never part

It was Spring when you planted me roses
In the yard where the sun shone bright
Like you, they were the light of my life

Frosty Roses - 50/90 collab

It's quite mysterious why some things seem obvious to our understanding. I guess that worms and insects may have a totally different perception of what is obvious. And, as we learn to see, the set of what seems obvious to our minds may also evolve. And we may even be obviously wrong...

== LEARNING TO SEE ==

No, light does not lie.
Light is truth, by definition,
and photons never lie.
But lone photons say nothing at all.
When Hubble tapped the dark sky
it sensed photons one by one,
slowly generating the image
of a deep field immensity.
And some saw galaxies there,
because they had learned to see.
They saw galaxies in all those bright dots on that dark photograph.
That was obvious to them, yet not for me.
And I trust them. 
What else can I do?
I know how often I'm blind to what I'm looking at.

Right now,
I look at you in this quiet evening, 
wondering how much we learned to see.
Is it obvious to you how much I love you?
Is it obvious to you?

Learning To See (based on Anastasiya Ihnatovich piano piece)

Fields Of Ecstasy

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
529
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku529-a-distant-mountain/

2024-02-22

A Distant Mountain ( Naviarhaiku 529 )

UnBoxed March 2024

[ d o w n l o a d a b l e ]

Blindfold Test #1

RoundtheBend disquiet0635

There's something very special about the making of a song. Sometimes its lyrics given music, or music given a voice of it's own. This time it was probably even more special. I wanted to show my daughter how to write and record a song. So I wrote some lyrics practiced some and recorded it while explaining everything I was doing. I told her that words are magic, and you can use them to shape the world around you. You can use them to hurt people, make them sad, make them laugh... but ultimately I hoped that she would use her words wisely to uplift people's spirits. In turn it would shape her world for the better. That if she used her words to harm others, those words would harm her in return. If she used her words for good, it would shape her into the beautiful woman she is meant to be some day. I hope you all find this song as beautiful as I do.

Lyrics:

Beyond the wall
There lies a story
A love so deep
It was buried
Beneath 
The old oak tree
And in the trunk
Their names were carved
Beneath the old 
Oak tree
Their names
Forgotten memories

And you say, 
Nothing last forever
And I say
You’re wrong
Because just because
We’re gone
Doesn’t mean our love
Won’t carry on

Beyond the wall
The cries of warring
The blood would seep
his to carry
Burden
Heavy as an oak tree
Where in the trunk
Their vows were carved
Beneath the old 
Oak tree
Their vows
Begotten Children sing

And you say, 
Nothing last forever
And I say
You’re wrong
Because just because
We’re gone
Doesn’t mean our love
Won’t carry on

The Old Oak Tree

Hammersmith

Recorded, mixed & mastered 09 Mar 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

Process notes
This is my Danelectro 12-string electric guitar in four similar variations in Live 12 Suite.

Each variation is through Live's 2x12 Near On-Axis amp preset and my own channel strip, including compression, sometimes high. I quantized these pretty close to whatever grid I was using at 76 bpm, if that matters to anyone. Use them as you would like!

Variation 01 - three notes, stretched out a bit in the Texture warp mode, with one note stretched a bit more. Live's overdrive is on here at mid-high frequencies.

Variation 02 - five notes, I think I left the speed alone here. Just put it through Beat Repeat in mix mode, my second-gen deconstruction of their Deconstruct preset with some fading decay, a 12 tone octave  and almost 100% chance of glitching.

Variation 03 - sped this up, slowed it back down and re-quantized this a few times. Then I used the newer Live distortion device, Roar, and edited/adjusted their Alien Symphony preset.

Variation 04 - I left the speed alone but applied reverse and fades to this one. This one is through the Redux at 4 bits and 11.7 kHz at a modest 20% wet.

Further variations will probably work their way into a future Heatsink track when I am ready to compile my next album under that name. 

Artwork: From the LIRR or somewhere in NYC or the Upper East Side, 09 Mar 2015 

©2015,2024 Jim Lemanowicz - music distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED

This original version of "Four Variations for Left" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0636: Left (1 of 3). The Assignment: Record the first third of a trio

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Four Variations for Left (disquiet0636)

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Four Variations for Left (disquiet0636)

Jimmy Lem