Name: Esplanade by Gary Rathbone
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: Not your everyday radio pop song, but it does have a Bowie-esque chorus and a killer guitar solo.

I don't care if you live or die
I don't care if you're in the sky
I don't care if the sun is high
I live in a bunker away from your lies

I don't care about your latest mood
your neighbour's job
or your dinner for two
your protein tastes different now
I live in a bunker away from your skies

I made a doll with wood and glue
I don't turn her on 'cos she looks like you
she rests her head on a cold flat stone
changed her voice-box for a sweeter tone

I don't turn her on
I don't turn her on

She looks like you.


music and lyrics - Jim Neversink
rough demo

I Don't Turn Her On - Jim Neversink rough demo

http://entracte.co.uk/projects/lee-fraser-e164/

Dark Camber comprises four works composed between 2009 
and 2012, using materials derived from a range of digital 
synthesis techniques (augmented with some electroacoustic 
treatments of concrète objects in a number of places to 
achieve more complex sonorities). While the influence of 
natural phenomena is often acknowledged in the behaviour 
and organisation of these materials, the focus of each work 
as a whole is on sound in the abstract — within an aesthetic/
formal context — where interest might be found in the play 
of colours, dynamic contours and/or overarching structural 
developments.

Lee Fraser is a composer whose work combines aspects 
of acousmatic theory with the compositional methods 
of computer music. He holds a PhD in electro-acoustic 
composition from the University of Manchester, which 
was supervised by David Berezan. He has also studied 
composition under Frank Denyer and Denis Smalley.

Release date: February 2014

Lee Fraser (E164; 2014)

Photowandering

You (homebrew Mix Final)

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My Paula

Gone

A track from our as-yet-untitled third album.

Grahamstown Fever
----------------------------

I’ve got to get back to this crazy town
To see a good friend of mine
To talk of old times, and start some new
And take it to the end of the line.

Oh Grahamstown fever
Comes creeping up on you
You want to start something new but
you can’t leave here.

I found you sitting in that same sleazy bar
You smiled and looked up at me
We picked it all up where we left off last
And for the rest of the weekend, we had a blast

Oh Grahamstown fever
Comes creeping up on you
You want to start something new but
you can’t leave here.

Oh Grahamstown fever
Comes creeping up on you
You want to start something new but
you can’t leave here.

Grahamstown Fever

Not your everyday radio pop song, but it does have a Bowie-esque chorus and a killer guitar solo.

Esplanade

Lost and Lonely
Was there ever a cut so deep, so cruel, or unkind
I’m beyond consolation; I’m quite out of my mind
Wounded now, I’m winded, I’m blown beyond reason
It’s been a long, cold and rough, inhospitable season
And I’m drunk with regret, rum-loathing and despair

When you said you’d left me
crows circled in the sky
they could tell without you I was lost
and certainly would die

Please don’t leave me, baby
Please don’t leave me, baby
Please stay with me, baby
Or I will die.

I’m lost and I’m lonely and I don’t even know why
Suspended mid-motion not looking a thing in the eye
My shoes are like shining uranium, I can see my face in them
Reflecting this middle-class hunger, raging inside me again.
I’m scared, I am scared, I’m terrified you’re not there

When you said you’d left me
scavengers circled round
to peck at my body before it was
buried in the ground.

Your promises all were hollow
and my hopes in funeral black
when a love is lost for sure
you’ll never get it back

Lost And Lonely

Just another singer/songwriter trying to get everyone's attention by writing and recording the kind of music (I hope) you don't hear on the radio or on Spotify playlists every day. I could give you a list of my influences and favourite artists, but I hope that my music speaks for itself.

Esplanade

Gary Rathbone

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