You evoke the prompt with the sound itself. This is the direction I would have went if I had more tools in my musical toolbox.

It has a touch of Radiohead in both song structure and the slightly distopian feel. Overall quite disturbing to the senses. Its good the way the song builds.

I’m finding my way Through vines intertwined Uncomplicate the mind Tape delay rewind-cool lines

Love the candid poetry lyrics over the acoustic-rock. So attention-demanding!

Nice rap-like narrative over descending 8/8 with an Eminem intensity voiced to it.

Amazing how you manage to vary this song in so many different ways while using mostly an acoustic guitar and voice. Great way of ending the song with a straight major chord after all the chromatic walks throughout the song.

I love this sonic boom! Great stuff Evan.

I really, really like this progression with the digital, 8-bit melody floating over it. Super cool diddy you've got here, Evan!!

It’s a bit of a trigger
It’s the embedded stinger
It’s the aching feet
Feeling incomplete
In the obsolete
Norms of the day
I’m finding my way
Through vines intertwined
Uncomplicate the mind
Tape delay rewind

Be a little more clever
Be coy, be annoyed, just enough
A dose of friendliness
Confusion in the unendingness

Be a little bit louder
Be a little bit cleaner
Be a little bit meaner
Be as normal as disease
Built to appease 
And fall on your knees

Hey mannequin!
Sleep walker!
Touchdown hero to ultimate zero!
Squared off square roots and square boots!
The time has come, the time has come!

Sonic Boom (The Time Has Come)

Wildfire

Limelit Sky

The heart of the man
(Mark I Anderson)
 
If you’ve ever wondered / if you’ve ever  cried
If you’ve ever sat beneath / a deep blue sky
Or looked into your soul to find / something there you left behind
Remnants of another place / pieces of another time
Then you’d know why I’m searching so
To find the heart of the man…
 
Have you heard a moonbeam / crying out to you
Reminding you of everything / you ever meant to do
Have you ever watched a baby / learning how to crawl
God I feel so helpless / every time I fall
Now you know why I’m searching so
To find the heart of the man…
 
[Bridge]
I never looked to anyone
To help me sing my song
Standing here upon my knees
it's hard to carry on
Is anyone that strong…
 
I wonder if there’s a God / I wonder if he smiles on me
I wonder where he might have gone / I wonder about so many things
The only thing I know for sure is / I see that sparkle in your eyes
I wish you’d never seen me fall / wish I’d never seen you cry
But now I know why I’m searching so
To find the heart of the man…

The heart of the man

Song-a-week #11 - Prompt: "Break a Leg"

I wrote this after a conversation with my friend Grace, talking about an experience she had years back when she was abandoned by her pianist on stage; I also heard her get up and powerfully sing a new song to move past her grief from the loss of her husband. This is what came together after all that.



Sing Your Heart Out Grace

关云长　Guan Yun Chang（？～２２０）

Guan Yun Chang was a Chinese figure from about 1,800 years ago.

He is a popular figure in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, and for some reason is now worshipped as a god of commerce.

He remained loyal to Liu Bei, the founder of Shu Han, and was admired by many of his contemporaries, including Cao Cao, for his extraordinary bravery and sense of duty.

Among the military commanders appearing in "Epic of the Three Kingdoms," he was as popular as Zhuge Liang, and because he valued righteousness, later generations deified him and designated him as the Guan Di (Guan Emperor).

He is worshiped as the god of business in Chinatowns around the world. He is given special treatment in "Epic of the Three Kingdoms" and is described as Kwan Gong rather than Guan Yu.

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关云长是一个大约1800年前的中国人物。
他是《三国演义》中的一个热门人物，由于某种原因，现在被当作商业之神来崇拜。

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Been on an ambient guitar pedal trip this week especially.  Some really incredible pedals out there where you can't even describe in human words (requires alien language) what they are up to.  Magic faeries I suppose.

Enjoy the moment, enjoy the music!

Crystals Growing Inside A Cloud

Song-a-week 2024 #14 - 
Prompts: "All Nighter" and
"Solastalgia" 

Trying to articulate some pre-dawn feelings...

Whisperings of Wonder

I know a road that'll take you anywhere you wanna go
I know a road that'll take you home
I know a road that'll take you anywhere you wanna go
You won't even need to be shown
I know a road that'll take you anywhere you wanna go
Right on up to the sky
I know a road that'll take you anywhere you wanna go
Show up, care and then try

If you let it, it'll take you home

I Know A Road (if you let it, it'll take you)

Breaking me down tonight
(Mark I Anderson)

All I hear is / a missing harmony
I’d let go but / something inside of me
Is holding on too tight / I know that I shouldn’t 
But who gives up this fight / I know that I couldn’t

All I hear is / two silent voices
I don’t know if / I have a choice
For holding on too tight / I know that I should 
But who gives up this fight / I don’t think I could

[Chorus]
How do I turn away
Pretend that I don’t feel this
Pushing and pulling 
Always tasting the first kiss
My emptions don’t care
It’s taking me there 
And I don’t know who’s wrong or who’s right
But just giving up / is breaking me down tonight

All I hear is / two hearts beating
Off in the distance / as their competing
With holding on too tight / and just letting go
And giving up the fight / maybe I’ll never know

[Chorus]
How do I turn away
Pretend that I don’t feel this
Pushing and pulling 
Always tasting the first kiss
My emptions don’t care 
It’s taking me there 
And I don’t know who’s wrong or who’s right
But just giving up / is breaking me down tonight

[Bridge]
I can’t wear a badge of courage
When courage can’t be found
And It’s easier to close my eyes
Than watch it all go down 

[Chorus]
How do I turn away
Pretend that I don’t feel this
Pushing and pulling 
Always tasting the first kiss
My emptions don’t care 
It’s taking me there 
And I don’t know who’s wrong or who’s right

My emptions don’t care
It’s taking me there 
And I don’t know who’s wrong or right
But just giving up / is breaking me down tonight…

Breaking me down tonight

Song a week #17 - Two prompts: Coming-of-age, and "Duck and Cover"

I read a story of this situation from the father's perspective, talking to his hospice worker. I thought that I would try to tell the story from the son's perspective. 

Here's the article - but don't read it until after you hear the song, please, so you can follow the story in chronological order through the song, instead of hearing about the ending first!

The dad's first name is Tank, and his son is Little Tank, which is why that is the song title, even though I don't mention his name in the song.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hospice-patient-after-death-communications_n_66119c1ce4b0c063ffb957ee

PS I sent the song to the author of the article, and here is his response: 

"Thank you so much for sharing this powerful song!

My wife played it at a family gathering over the weekend and everyone was moved by it.

You really caught the way the rough challenge of Tank's life blended with the spiritual power of a larger world beyond our earthly vision.

So powerful!

Big Tank died a while back. But I bet he's already listened to it...more than once.

Thanks again!

Peace,
Scott"

The Ballad of Little Tank

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