Wake Up Everybody

This Song is called Sideways and I wrote it with my friend Kenyatta Beasley. Kenyatta is a seriously talented trumpet player, composer and arranger.  It was originally pitched as a film score idea. Kenyatta sent me a simple keyboard demo with some really nice chord changes and he asked me to write lyrics and melody.  The scene in the film where the song was to appear was about a young actress who leaves her son in the care of her parents while she goes off pursue her career dreams, to seek fame, fortune and a better life, for she and her son.  She's conflicted and questions whether doing so is a forward move or a lateral move.   That was the premise that I was given and I wrote verse a first verse and chorus based on that.  Perhaps, I thought, she's worried that she's not moving forward but just moving "Sideways".   The film didn't happen, but I liked the demo with the 1 verse and I brought it to Torsos.  We developed the musical concept and kept it as a one-verse one-chorus interlude.  A year later a second verse came to me after my mother passed away. The album was already recorded and now, when we perform the song live, we play the full version with the new second verse.  We printed the lyrics to the second verse in the liner notes even though I don't actually sing it on the record.  The song was dedicated to the memory of my mother on "Code Red".

Some great musicians joined the Torsos on this track.  I'm a vocoder freak, so I called two masters of the instrument, keyboardist Chris Fisher from Funk Nuveau and Keyboardist saxophonist Casey Benjamin from the 2013 grammy winning Robert Glasper Experiment. Though they recorded their parts separately and remotely, they created a beautiful conversation between vocoder soloist and vocoder choir.



Sideways (Interlude) Featuring Casey Benjamin & Chris Fisher

This is track # 2 from Screaming Headless Torsos 2014 album release, Code Red. Brooce Swayne featuring James Valentine, guitarist of Maroon 5. The song was written by Freedom Bremner, performed by the Torsos, David Fiuczysnki - guitar,  Daniel Sadownick - percussion, David Ginyard - bass, Gene Lake drums, and produced by Gregg Fine.

Brooce Swayne Featuring James Valentine

This was captured from a live performance with the Torsos in Mexico City at Plaza Condessa. It's the mix straight front he board no post production.  This is one of my all time favorite Jimmy Hendrix covers and what I like it that few people cover it. I suggested it to the band after arranging an acoustic versions of the tune for a solo project.  I really dig our arrangement because I feel like we made our own statement but were true to Jimmy's message, at least I hope we were. 

"Angel" by Jimmi Hendrix - Screaming Headless Torsos,  Live from Mexico City,  9.13.12

This beast of a tune is a kind of pop-metal anthem from the Torsos. It was originally written as an instrumental by the Torsos' percussionist Daniel Sadwonick. It had a first life as instrumental called Fallout Shelter. Later lyrics written Torsos founder David Fiuczynski and his wife Madoka Raine were added and Code Red was born.  It is the title track of the 4th Torsos album released on September 26th, 2014.

Code Red

So my new musical protege Matt Garrison took his talents to this remix of the track Summer Sky form the Deep Sonic compilation recorded in 2003.  The original recording was part of a dance compilation called Deep Sonic, written and conceived by Michael Rais and co-produced by Michael and Thomas Foyer.  The album featured several artists lending their voices.  I love the original version. It was also a track on my first EP. This is an amazingly different take on it.  I think we're looking at the beginnings of a new album project. Stay tuned.

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