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BPM: 114
Key: C Major

This instrumental has an eighties vibe and a verse based on a pedal in Em7, a chorus in C Major 7, and a break in C Major 7.

The main sound is based on multiple tracks of electric guitar layered in almost all the sections of the song.
The bass is an Ibanez electric bass of the 2000's 
Drums are programmed. I used the Downbeat Acoustic kit, set up on the round robin version. 
You can find more on this here: https://www.mpc-samples.com/product.php/291/the-downbeat-kit/

The song has been mixed and masterd on AKAI MPC Live and Software.
I published a video on YouTube where I show the single tracks of the composition process, you can check it out here: https://youtu.be/b1aGRDlrdcw

Tracks:

[01] Drums      Kit-Downb.rn Mix Cycle
[02] Bass       Ibanez Electric Bass
[05] Strat      Fender AM Professional Stratocaster
[06] LStrat     Fender AM Professional Stratocaster
[07] Pad 01     Xpand!2\+18 Bi.scence
[08] KB 01      TubeSynth\Tubey Saw
[09] LFO        Hybrid\06 Bu.hords 2


CHORDS
Chorus
ǁ: C Maj 7ǀ Am7 ǀ Em 7 ǀ Em 7 ǁ

Verse
ǁ:E7 ǁ

Break
ǁ: C Maj 7 ǁ

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El Viejo

The main theme is another one from my distant teenage years, written on a small keyboard as a flute tune. 
My friend like it, so we fooled around with it and even recorded a song called ''Field of Dew'', as a satine of folkish/radio friendly love songs popular in Dalmatia, that alone probably influenced me to use the theme for a romance-like composition.
Sentiment and content wise, it is very personal, filled with melodies reminiscing all of turmoil one can experience in love, from happy moments like the first glance in the shared with one another in a crowd during a Metallica cover band concert, strolling through the sun bathed forest of Gorski Kotar, and many more, both happy and unhappy. 
This piece is dedicated to Vanja Kalemba, the mother of my son and also the author of many paintings I use as a art cover of my compositions.

Romance For Piano, B-flat Lydian

FINE

I decided to get catty about some philosophers.
This was the result, with the help of a few Twitter conversations.

my main website:
http://exedexes1.com

itch.io page:
http://exedexes1.itch.io

Lyrics:
some say
that as far as language and culture go
internal systemic patterns rule
but I haven't really come to find
this conclusion all that cool

Camus said if the world were clear
art would not exist
Did he write that when he was sober
Or after getting really pissed

People see what they want to see
I'm more into shaping my own reality

What forms a bright personality
Is intelligence and cordiality


There are some conceptual nodes
That it is a mistake to connect
And so it's time to be reflecting 
That what we do is to interpret a thing
And warp it around our intellect

All of this pattern matching taken to excess
Results in a hyperlexic mess 
It feels like just belletristic overfitting
A bunch of overcomplicated knitting
Storytelling confused for a predictive process

The real onion here is deciding
Which connections to disregard
For some to me have only about
The appeal of a tub of lard

Some philosophers are Fools competing to
construct a board game
with the most Byzantine rules
But as their theories gather mold
The people who were sold on them
Will sometimes find some jewels

though on examination appearing useless
these things are not non-fungible

The most trivial of trivialities
masquerading as a framework
and that was when i suspected
that they were rather a bunch of jerks

perhaps it's sufficient to be
inspired by the semi-hucksters work
which in places is somewhat overrated
and here and there solutions lurk
which make them vindicated

Freud proved psychosomatics exist
And Chomsky helped out parsers
Foucalt's model of power structures
Is great for spotting farceurs
Derrida examined lived experience
But deconstruction was a miss

They might be accused of
schizophrenic pattern matching
for things that are not really there
but what they actually did was
to make their theories accommodative
fundamentally to get anywhere

They built these edifices out of
A significant chunk of the noticeable
And while I'll grant you that it's not falsifiable
The product might not be that reliable

The lesson of successful intellectual slatterns
is that if enough people agree with your patterns
the mimetic value capture alone is worth it

I just refuse to be mollycoddled
by all this abstruse twaddle
about various mental models

But the manner of their braying
Is really just bewraying  
for the edification of of me and you
that this is necessary for the functioning 
of the social infrastructure
which is just a nice way of saying
that even the clods require their due

Complexity, sensitivity, political import
There are times when i could give less of a bucksnort
But my bias here is showing
For I cannot possibly be all-knowing

Like a stochastic parrot yet a fleshy one
They're sentient but non-useful to some
And a perusal of their semantic fantasia
reveals they sometimes as well have had Wernicke's aphasia

In their defense, absolute clarity is boring
You can't dodge the theorypill they said
Protest as you may
but intellectual whoring by spewing opaqueness
creates a daunting malaise of fakeness
which kind of ruins my day

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Word Salad

For my new album LIFE, the opening track "Genome" sets the tone with a vibrant jazz fusion vibe, blending rhythmic guitar solos with wild, electrifying keys. It's a journey through intricate grooves and spontaneous energy, capturing the essence of jazz rock with a modern twist.

Life

Genome

Kick The Habit

Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Lyrics and Keys by Robert Grigg

https://youtu.be/c9dCGtJS59I

In The End

A Touch Of Honey

All Music stuff by me.  

Mist written by Me and Whitney Porter.

  Special thanks to Kahlan Davis, Whitney Porter, John Moreland, and the Toxic Brothers.  

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Rat Race

Track by Combstead
Lead Guitar, Lyrics and Vocals By Robert Grigg

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He walked alone on the empty road 
Suddenly he saw a long shadow. 
The shadow man approached him from behind. 
To take him in his empire

He takes him away
To another world 
Far away 
From his home 

The walker was delighted 
Suddenly he saw a long shadow. 
The shadow man shows him his face.  
To take him in his empire

He took him with him
Into another world 
Far away 
From home 

He walked alone 
suddenly a shadow
approached him from behind 
to take him in his empire
He takes him with 
to another wourld 
far away 
from his home

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