Rectangles

Despite the somber mood of this track, you should still be able to find a few 'touches' of blue across it … hopefully.

With a touch of blue...

With A Touch Of Blue

A track made with all Brian Funk instruments!!!

Roll North

Just a short and simple piece only using 4 adjusted presets of Brian Funks - Baby, Baby Grand Piano sample pack

Brian's Piano

From the album Rectangles by Brian Funk. 
Available August 9th, 2023.

Is it greedy if I want a chance
Is it greedy if I need another try
I’m walking alone to you again
Weakly and out of stride 

I was above it
I was above it
I was above it
I was above it

Waiting on the high road and I stay away
Straighten out on the sidelines what I’m hoping to say
3,000 hours then I call you up
And I guess you don’t need me around

I was above it
I was above it
I was above it
I was above it
I was above it
I was above it
I was above it

I Was Above It

From the album Rectangles by Brian Funk. 
Available August 9th, 2023.

Figure out the mystery
The trigonometry
What’s first will soon be last
Some kind of crooked math

You will supply the map
I will carve out  the path
Like all of the other times
Other times

I’m looking I’m looking I’m looking for you
I’m looking I’m looking I’m looking for you

Looking back on history
Turn a win into defeat
You get the starting lap
I’ll have the final laugh

Inner demon is a saint
Fall in love with what you hate 
Like all of the other times
The other times

I’m looking I’m looking I’m looking for you
I’m looking I’m looking I’m looking for you
I’m looking I’m looking I’m looking for you
I’m looking I’m looking I’m looking for you
Look out

I'm Looking For You

From the album Rectangles by Brian Funk. 
Available August 9th, 2023.

Who’s that coming here 
I need answers
I need evidence that everything will be fine
We got one time left in this lifetime
And I need my time over you

And I know that it isn’t easy
And I know that it isn’t easy

My mind’s made up and I know it’s wrong
I got nothing left not even you
I want one chance then I’ll give it all back now
Let me have just one more chance here with you

And I know that it isn’t easy
And I know that it isn’t easy

So don’t blame me 
If I’m crazy
I’ll let you know
I’ll let you know

Don’t blame me 
If I’m crazy
I’ll let you know
I’ll let you know

My mind is made up on this subject
I know it’s made up on this subject
I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10 reasons not to lie
I don’t have anybody left to fight

And I know that it isn’t easy
And I know that it isn’t easy
And I know life isn’t easy
And I know and I know

So don’t blame me 
If I’m crazy
I’ll let you know
I’ll let you know

Don’t blame me 
For being crazy
I’ll let you know
I’ll let you know
I’ll let you know
I’ll let you know
I’ll let you know

It Isn't Easy

From the album Rectangles by Brian Funk. 
Available August 9th, 2023.

I don’t wanna wait 
I just go
I don’t wanna risk 
Missing Out
I was alarmed at what I saw
That the end was so near

Will you write me
Will you call me
Will you miss me
Now that I’m gone

I don’t wanna leave
I just stay
I don’t wanna lose sight of you
And I was alarmed at what I saw
That we reached the point where there’s no comeback

Will you write me
Will you call me
Will you miss me
Now that I’m gone

Would you miss a beat 
Would you get right back up
Would you rearrange
Would you visit my grave

Would you call me
Will you write me
Will you miss me
Will you miss me    
Now that I’m gone

Now That I'm Gone

From the album Rectangles by Brian Funk. 
Available August 9th, 2023.

You ought to know where I’ve been
Though I’m an honest man I never win
Look at me I’ve atrophied
I’m a shell of myself
You wanna make it here 
You’re going up for sale 

Wrap Me Up in Gold
Wrap Me Up in Gold Come on
Wrap Me Up in Gold
Wrap Me Up Wrap me in Gold honey

Anytime I try with anyone
They all have buried heads in crazy stuff
I remember men had integrity and they fought for truth
Are we unprepare and are we through
 
Wrap Me Up in Gold
Wrap Me Up in Gold Won’tcha
Wrap Me Up in Gold Come on
Wrap Me Up in Gold

Cuz you’re hypnotized
By a rectangle
And we’re all right here
But we’re all alone

Wrap Me Up in Gold come on
Wrap Me up in Gold

Wrap Me Up In Gold

From the album Rectangles by Brian Funk. 
Available August 9th, 2023.

Can we get a little peace sign on the side, you mind
I’m looking back and seeing that it’s a part of you I know
Well I had a little in and out of body experience tonight
Where I had to float around drying off and cold, alright

Try and Find Me Will You
Try and Take me with you

Get a little bit closer to the road 
I figure if I’m not there yet then I can go back alone
Is your human nature awake today
Looking back I guess we’re all a fraud, oh no 

Try and Find Me Will You
Call Out to Me 
Try and Take me with you
Try and find me will you go
By me and decide that there’s nothing here for you

Try And Find Me

To the sky and beyond. A tune inspired by and written only using the sounds from the Brian Funk SK-1 Ableton Pack.

https://brianfunk.com/blog/casio-sk1

SKybound

My son Corm made the pads, bassline, and beat around an old melody of mine! 
So sick!

Undaunted [Corm Cut]

A groovy tune with a fun switch-up. I was listening to a lot of Soichi Terada and Shinichiro Yokota while I made this track. You can probably hear the influence.

Loud Enough

Levels

Apophenia

Ataraxis

Hate The Crime

In a galaxy not far away, around a dying star, lies the orbit of a feline fortress- a planet just for us!
In a race against the expanding outer layers of our sun, we must open every portal until a brand new world is won. 
What evil may come?

Cloaked claws, powerful paws,
Veiled in magic mystery, our incantations rise.
Cloaked claws, this is our cause!
Be it fate or destiny, our future is in the sky.

Cloaked Claws

My mom and I loved potatoes so I was thinking about the way in Dia de Los Muertos you pay homage to those we've lost along the voyage and thought I'd find a way to get that into the song. The intent of this song was to relate to the general malaise we can experience at times after we've lost someone really important in our lives like our moms.  Sometimes the malaise has no strong emotion to it, just a sense of emptiness but you can take away your own meaning to any song....  


Haven’t slept so well since my mom died
Tried to eat french fries, my stomach just capsized

All the news just came too fast
Couldn’t make it last, we have a beautiful past

All these memories flow, like an ice floe
Like a lost boat, never coming home

Ballerina slippers stored in a basement bin
Remembering when, you had dreams

High above, the petrichor rain
Angels sang, to the moon
Blue heron swoon, searching for food
Sorting pebbles, and beads, odd trinkets to the sea

Of lives, lost in hate, a perfect escape
For insecure rage, tumbling down, a mountainous wave
Carrying all our ancestors, safely to their enclave by the sea

Milk and honey, an apple seed,
Pomegranates ripen, olives brighten
Our garden glistens, nobody knows what it’s like when no one listens
To what we’ve seen

Haven’t slept so well since my mom died,
Guess I’ll eat french fries, my stomach’s half its size

I carry the pain in my back now, under my heart now,
from my neck down to my toes

Planted roses in your name, tulips bloom, every spring
But things just aren’t the same, hold my heart, in a sling

Carry forward what you taught me,
Mensch to be, in your eyes

Haven’t slept so well since my mom died,
Guess I’ll eat french fries


haven't slept so well since my mom died

Musician, Producer, and Educator from New York. 
Host of the Music Production Podcast. 
Author of 5-Minute Music Producer. 
Berklee Online teacher. 
Ableton Certified Trainer.

I Was Above It

Brian Funk

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