Download and stream at https://theemptyorchestras.bandcamp.com/track/old-devil-redo-acoustic-demo

2021 Demos

Old Devil - Live Demo

Download, Stream, and read lyrics at https://theemptyorchestras.bandcamp.com/album/forever-is-nothing-healing-spirals-up

Bard's Tale of Earthbound in Eb (Sound Stone Redo) - Band Demo

I challenged myself to write, record, mix and publish one new song every month between February 2017 and February 2018. I wrote, recorded, mixed, and published in "Grandfather" in November 2017 during that challenge and then revisited and produced three other previously written songs I hadn't released. 

Download the EP with this song and the other three other songs at Bandcamp
theemptyorchestras.bandcamp.com/album/for…-new-life

Thanks for reading and listening.

Lyrics
In my memories of you, you are patient
joking and keeping the peace
laughing with us
when we were too upset
In my memories of you, you're a trickster
Part of me is, too
Tricking me into
Thinking I know best
Patient trickster, old shapeshifter
Makes me think I'll die a drifter
Lonely and sadder by the day

But I remember my grandfather showed
his daughters and sons wherever you go, there you are
You can talk and talk and feel lost
or make a joke and laugh it off
What can you change? What can't you change?
And why think about the latter at all?

Since you died in peace, we've tried to laugh
at all the jokes that only you could tell
I love you, and miss you, thanks for all the laughs
Maybe you said all those things,
maybe I only wish you had
Two years past, went slow, went fast
but all in all, you are with me changing as I change
Your memory is changing as I change

Grandfather

Stream and download the full album at: theemptyorchestras.bandcamp.com/album/sho…the-night

Written and recorded by the Empty Orchestras
Overdubs, mixing and mastering by MAR Creative Works

Special Thanks to Natalie B for the album cover "Divine Cataclysm"

Lyrics
I had counted all the stones when you came out of the ground 
You were searching for the sea and got lost in what you found 
when through the window in my cell, 
you saw the sky for the first time in years 

We tunneled on and on 
and I learned a lot from you 
Your death left me alone 
knowing what to do 

I escaped through your burial, 
lost in the waves 
Revenge on my mind, 
a treasure to claim 

and I remember you, 
getting lost in what you found 
when through the window in my cell, 
you saw the sky for the first time in years

Priest

I write folk songs with post rock influences and when I can, I perform the songs with my friends. I also write ambient music inspired by video games, poetry, and meditate regularly. :)
Currently writing/recording/performing in South Texas. 

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