A pretty simple, repetitive motif and an experiment in mood.

The Last Of Summer

A demo of an unfinished song that's just little descent into some metal on a whim. I don't really have any idea what I'm doing here, hence the demo-ness. Keeping an open genre mind. 


There was a war; I fell in stride
And when the fight came down to me
I threw my sword
And then the sky threw down a fire
The blaze required of me
That I make my peace with the light.

"You're a coward, my son
Be a man, be done
I'd pour fire from your hands
And fire from your eyes
And when the flame is burning out,
I'd pour fire from the skies,
But you cannot even ask in love."

Awake in me another violent love again

Fire

A reading of Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" with original music as accompaniment. 

The track is called "The Wind and What's Beneath It" and It fits glorioiusly well

Ode To A Nightingale

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by TS Eliot. 

Original music, titled "Steady as the Sea"

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

William Wordsworth's "Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

Original music, titled "Saturday Morning in G"

Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

If You Forget Me, by Pablo Neruda

Original music entitled "Prelude"

If You Forget Me

If Saturday morning had a voice, this is what it would tell you. And it would speak in G.

Saturday Morning in G

For when I think too much.
Please remember everything here is in rough draft form, some more finished than others. This one is still quite rough, but I'm sure you'll forgive me :) I'll take whatever criticism you're willing to give!


One last look before I'm out the door 
 It's that one last look that kept me here before 
 It sent me through the fire alone  
And I got scorched from head to toe  
It watched me trod the fire alone  
And laughed as I crawled back to its hole

For shame, for shame, alive is not enough  
For boys who need to breathe with dirty lungs  
And pretty girls asleep in foreign arms  
It's just a word we use to get what we want 
 And like a hex it works  
Cause I fell into those eyes alone 
 And then I saw the out  
And I found a way to fall in love

They'll give you poison pills to swallow down,  
A drag to curb the hunger  
Hold you like the waters won't recede for ten more years  
But I will give you water from a well that's never dry  
And teach you how to love

Could it be that doubt is chemically inclined  
Or when it comes to things like You we're blind? 
 Because if tides in all their glory,  
The stars among their brothers soaring  
Know the hands that make them move are Yours, 
 then You can bring me relief and make me believe

I found a way to fall in love 
 I found a way to fall in love  
As soon as I decided to leave myself along the side  
I found the way to fall in love


The Tide and the Stars

To keep the spirit of the track alive, very minimal post-processing has been added to this. Hence some faint tube hum, a few buzzy things because of the unstable nature of the items lying around my room, etc.
All arranged, recorded, and put out on the internet before afternoon hit :)
For those interested:

Gear used:
/13 FTR-37
Pigtronix philosopher's Tone and Tremvelope (very transparently on both of them)
BBE Sonic Stomp maximizer
Dr. Scientist Reverberator
Paul C Timmy for some super super clean boost
Boss DD20
Fender Thinline Telecaster w/ a pair of P90's
Shure SM-57
CAD Trion 7000



If Rain Could Sing

A ridiculously chill arrangement of a Christmas favorite :) 

Merry Christmas everybody! 

hjbarber