My pandemic song. Everyone’s got one.

All lyrics & music by Dred Fouglas.

Lyrics:

Everyone is struggling to breathe
The air outside is death
Now we’ve all got a corpse to grieve 
So smoke your last cigarette

‘Cause when you wake up, more are lost 
You’re either in your deathbed or next
Wondering when all will be okay enough to say we‘ll again see the light of day
There is no hiding from the plague

Better panic, hoard, or thieve
before you’re snuffed out 
Pray to whatever god you believe
and hope that you have clout

‘Cause when you wake up, dirty and poor
You’re either in your deathbed or in debt
Wondering when all will be okay enough to say 
we can go back to life today
There is no hiding from the plague

Fate is unfair, but don’t despair
Every now and then we need to be knocked down a peg
Oh yeah

‘Cause when you wake up and half the world is gone
You’re either in your deathbed or depressed
Wondering how nothing is the same enough to say you’d rather die anyway 
There is no hiding from the plague
There is no hiding from the plague
There is no hiding

The Plague

A piece of music inspired by winter walks in the woods. The snow, the cold air, the frozen lake, a sweet friend...
Joé Johnston- Bass guitar, synths, drum sample programming. 
Recorded, mixed and mastered at the cottage, winter 2021.

Walk In The Woods (with you)

4 Day Walk

Spiders on a Plane 

Mind Watching Your Elbow : https://soundcloud.com/mind-watching-your-elbow/spiders-on-a-plane-open-versefree-downloadread-description
Nate Monoxide : https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/4765/any-verse-you-could-kick-115bpm-rap-acapella

Remix by Mahan Mahan 04/05/2021

Mind Watching Your Elbow X Nate Monoxide ~ Spiders on a Plane(Mahan 💀 Mahan Remix)

This is an extremely slowed version of the song. And yes the cover is relevant. Try to figure it out. You won't.

spooky preview of a not so spooky song

Feedback Madness
Track 1, "From This", 01:04, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt
Track 2, "Feedback Madness", 02:15, PulDeFilt
Track 3, "Wander", 02:41, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS
Track 4, "Uncover", 03:21, Soma Enner + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt
Track 5, "Leaving", 02:00, PulDeFilt + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS


Dates:
26-Oct-2025 (inception), 30-Oct-2025 (finalised), 30-Oct-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/album/feedback-madness

Description:

Following up an idea on feed back loops, looper cross amplitude modulation with my software based digital modular synthesiser, PulDeFilt; plus analogue synthesisers: Soma Enner, Soma Lyra 8 and Soma COSMOS.


Track 1, "From This", 01:04, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt:
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Records a short Soma Lyra 8 performance, two motifs introduced and recorded into Loops 1 and 2, ready to use in Track 2.


Track 2, "Feedback Madness", 02:15, PulDeFilt:
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*(1). This is where is all began. Having recorded two short 11 and 12 second samples from the Soma Lyra 8 from track 1 into loops 1 and 2, it was time to experiment with loops 1 and 2 amplitude modulating (AM) each other.

I wanted to explore the possibilities of dynamic assignment of multiple looper outputs to cross amplitude modulate each other. So I decided to start simple and just cross link only two looper outputs.

The audio signals from looper 1 and looper 2 where then multiplied together, i.e. amplitude modulation. Now to add some spice, after amplitude modulation, this was fed into a delay+feedback+gain block and added back to the looper 1 AM input. This delay was necessary as a technical matter but then later proved to be a useful timbral tool by playing the delay times according to a prescribed discrete set of delay times (as assigned to 8 midi note pads, along with the feed back gain assigned to a rotary encoder of the midi instrument again played by the performer. The discrete delay time tuning was determined by ear, old school style, play one delay time, write that down, play the next delay time that sounded right, write it down and continue, then assign to the tuning library.

Since the original audio from the Lyra 8 was feed into the Soma COSMOS for reverb, no reverb VST was necessary in the digital modular synthesiser, PulDeFilt.


Track 3, "Wander", 02:41, Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS
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A purely Soma Lyra 8 performance.


Track 4, "Uncover", 03:21, Soma Enner + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS + PulDeFilt
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Here the Soma Lyra 8 played a dual role, firstly as the delay+distortion for the Soma Enner performance and secondly, the Lyra 8 played in it's own right. This was then feed into the Soma COSMOS to layer in and out various motifs and play the Blur and Drift dials. PulDeFilt was used here purely as a mixing console and to layer up performances.


Track 5, "Leaving", 02:00, PulDeFilt + Soma Lyra 8 + Soma COSMOS
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After all the hyper activity, a calming finale. PulDeFilt was used to play a pulse oscillator drone through a single delay+feedback block then off to a band pass filter, adjusting the centre frequency dynamically during the performance. This provided the backing for the Soma Lyra 8 performance. The Lyra 8 audio was passed through to the COSMOS for a touch of reverb.

DPRSHN

J.M. INC.

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