"Marc. The robots got into the liquor cabinet again."

- Ableton
- Arturia Buchla Easel V
- OBNE Reverse
- QuBit Surface
- Make Noise QPAS
- QuBit Data Bender
- Vermona TwinCussion
- ALM/Busy Circuits Pamela's New Workout
- XAOC Devices Tirana
- Mutable Instruments Branches

Kreis

Rough mix of basic tracks, with David Gans producing, Bob Myren on lead and bass guitars, Dan Brodnitz on piano, and John Hanes on drums, plus backing vocals from David Gans, Bob Myren, and Dan Brodnitz.

Engineered by Jeremy Goody of Megasonic Sound.


Saint Lucifer
(c) 2022 At Swim-Two-Birds Music

verse 1
I dreamed I saw Saint Lucifer, alive as you and me
He offered me a 2 x 4, sweetened naturally
He handed out some anagrams then left without a word
A deep sharp silence followed him
The loudest ever heard.

verse 2
Now, I don’t care for Lucifer. You know that to be true
But I don’t care for anyone ’cept me and sometimes you
I wish that I had never seen that wretched holy man
‘Cause now I’m stuck here in between
The good and righteous plan.

chorus 1
Oh, Saint Lucifer! Time for you to go
Oh, St. Lucifer! Finish up your show
Oh, St. Lucifer! You done it this time, man
Oh, St. Lucifer!
Don't come ’round again!

verse 3
I dreamed I saw Saint Lucifer along the shoreline drive
I offered him a 2 x 4. He didn’t look alive
I handed out some alibis then left without a word
A deep loud silence followed me
The saddest ever heard

chorus 2
Oh, Saint Lucifer! It’s time for you to go
Oh, St. Lucifer! Let’s wrap up the show
Oh, St. Lucifer! It’s bigger than you, man
Oh, St. Lucifer!
Never come again!

chorus 3
Oh, Saint Lucifer! Time for you to go
Oh, St. Lucifer! Finish up your show
Oh, St. Lucifer! It’s not about you, man
Oh, St. Lucifer…
We all doin’ what we can…
Don’t come ’round again

Words and music by Christian Crumlish.

Saint Lucifer - rough mix 3 - work in progress

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The world’s population is ruled by a social credit system called "The Julia System". It impacts everything from what travel systems you can use, what music you can listen to, even where you can buy groceries. A low score is very difficult to recover from just as a high score takes work to maintain so neither is a final determination of one’s fate. Unable to sustain the growing global population, this social credit system was put in place by the Earth Governing Organization and adopted by every governing society on the planet. But something has gone wrong. The Julia System has been compromised by a nexus of evil that is intent on destroying the rest of civilization and is led by a Russian man named Ferlinger. The story arch will follow the actions of the resistance. Led by Mr. Trout (the boss), Ms. Mays (a strategic spy), Candy Bigwood a mechanical genius, last but not least,  Sol and Dee-Rob the two ultimate saviors of the planet and its habitants by entering into the belly of the beast and destroying the system of oppression, restoring wonder back to the world.

Echoes of Control Volume 1

Shadows Of Deceit

Memory Lane
© 2024 At Swim-Two-Birds

Words by Peter K. Hirsch
Music by Christian Crumlish
Arranged by Christian Crumlish and Bill Cassell

Produced by David Gans.
Engineered and co-produced by Jeremy Goody.

Personnel:
Jeremy Goody: bass
Christian Crumlish: ukuleles and vocals

Memory Lane - rough mix 2 - work in progress

A stripped down take on the 1984 tune by Leonard Cohen. Although structured as a love song it was in fact inspired by the Holocaust. In a 1995 radio interview, Cohen said of the song:

	'it's curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin," meaning the beauty thereof being the consummation of physical life, the end of existence in that form and of the passionate element in that consummation."

Shadows Of Deceit

EPICS Group

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