I wrote this song as a tribute to love that endures beyond this world as we know it. My best friend lost his battle with cancer several years ago, but as I often think of him I have envisioned his parting moments with his dear wife by his side. This is just my thoughts on it, I won’t pretend to represent the actual intimacies that would possibly have transpired, but I do have a good idea of how much they cared for each other, and still do.

Craig Durgy (vocals & guitar)
Nat Daniels (piano, bass and production)

Lyrics:   Summer Rain by Craig Durgy

Time slowed down to greet me, to carry out my light
You caressed me sweetly, always there right by my side

And as my eyes conceded, that leaving you I must
Despite your tears that pleaded, I just rose out into dust

I became an angel, you held to my sleeve 
Now the summer rain will
Let you know I’ll never leave

Yes, I became an angel, the moment that we kissed
Through all the years of loving you
That brought me here like this

Now the dust has settled, life and love go on
Raindrops on a petal, and you know that I’m not gone

In this life we’re flowers, but it’s only life’s cocoon
As fresh as summer showers, forever love can bloom

And, I became an angel, you held to my sleeve 
Now the summer rain will
Let you know I’ll never leave

Summer Rain

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little?) – at: disquiet.com/0530/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-pr…mally-viable-music/

A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development (Wikipedia).

So, in my opinion, create a procedure/methodology that allows you to create/test something that will naturally be developed further with future steps.

And, therefore, what is the simplest/most comfortable and most relevant starting point to create this path?

In my case:
1) start working with samples and various granular samplers (Frame 2 and Frame 3, by Peter Dines, in Reaktor eg.)
2) always working in a heterodox way, use stochastic/random midi generators to obtain a score, which can be used as it is, or distributed among various instruments / sounds. Of course the choice of instruments in this case is crucial, since we are not within a precise and codified musical form.

This is the method I used for this track.

MTH 02 - Disquiet0530

Atmospheric track between floating sounds and sequenced passages. The raven samples were taken in the "Nationalpark Bayrischer Wald" in Germany.

Towards The North Star

A Bridge Over Elephants

Composition In Db Major

Diamond: An original song by;

Skaface    -   Rerelease

Blue Summers

No vocals yet, but they'll hopefully be in the box soon with Mrs Moag and myself.
Pour mes amis Francophones, c'est une reprise d'un "classique des variétés françaises", années 70,
le reconnaissez-vous ?
https://soundcloud.com/the-acoustic-grill/tracks

mOag - cOming "sOme day" tO the acOustic grill

lyrics:

This is about the great molasses flood
occurred in the north-end neighbourhood 
of Boston.
On January 15, 1919
a large storage tank filled with tons of molasses
burst
and the resultant wave rushed through the streets
killing 21 and injuring 150.
The event entered the local folklore
and residents claimed for decades
afterwards
that the area still smelled 
of molasses
on hot summer days.

HEXOMINO

The Area Still Smelled Of Molasses

source: https://soundcloud.com/gaspardcanine/sugar-bear-slices

A Bridge Over Elephants

Chris Wagler

Recent comments

Regotas

Liz Dicker

Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka Composer

Nyla K

Related tracks