Name: Sleeper by Joshua McGill
Duration: 5 min 56 s
Description: WAKE UP YOU SLEEPERS / WITH PENS AND NEEDLES / SLEEP / SLEEPER / NOW WATCH AS THE MOON STARTS TO OPEN / AND OUT OF THIS TOMB / A NEW HEART BLED / THE BODIES EXHUMED / AGED FORGOTTEN / THEIR WHISPERING DOOM / UPON OUR HEADS / WAKE UP YOU SLEEPER / WITH PENS AND NEEDLES / 'CAUSE YOUR BED NEEDS SOME TURNIN'

aww yeah, i loved the beats, i loved the synthpads, i loved the voice and now i love the words too ...

second time around, so soulful electronics man ...

@bluemurderjazz: You are simply amazing, Liame. My respect and sincere appreciation go out to you.

@french-fashion: Thanks a lot! I will do :)

had to find a spot! DAMN, I haven't heard anything this far out in a long time. Your style could be the new old, or the old new...or whatever, all I know is I really like it a lot! and from the looks of it, so do a lot of people!

Josh, I think this is special in so many ways. The vocals 'does it' in the end but any way this is an awesome track man!

@rain_and_sun: Thank you for listening :D

Some piano parts with fx inspired from the walks I've been taking lately



Treelygns

This is a rhythmic collage of vocal samples I took from a couple of rehearsals with a church band here in Dallas. The worship leader has a unique way of vocalizing rhythms and making all kinds of cool sounds, all of which lends itself well for a remix.

Boom Backah Pow

http://youtu.be/IzcC1exrn8Y
It's like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. 
I asked him that same question, "Why?"...He said, "It seemed to be a good idea at the time."

Low Gravitation

For chamber orchestra. Premiered at Snape Maltings Concert Hall in July 2011.

Frame/Refrain

'In Control' is the first single off DOLLS + Fauxplay's album EAT IT UP  - check the video HERE https://youtu.be/DajUghB3TZE and you can buy the track on iTunes, Bandcamp, Tidal, Amazon, Google Play (pretty much everywhere). If you like it, please share + actually _buy_ the music...  Support Indie, because it's the sexy thing to do. Come find me on Twitter/IG/FB @dollsxx

With 80's electro bass and hooky synth lines, 'In Control' darkly drives a catchy déja-vu backdrop for DOLLS' trademark lyrical juxtaposition - this time threatening listeners with a gritty, but blasé kind of true love.  

(ps follow Fauxplay on SC https://soundcloud.com/fauxplay)

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In Control (DOLLS + Fauxplay)

This song explores themes of being lost or at the end of your rope, dealing with said mindset, and eventually accepting where you are in order to move on or move forward. 

Shipwrecked

WAKE UP YOU SLEEPERS / WITH PENS AND NEEDLES / SLEEP / SLEEPER / NOW WATCH AS THE MOON STARTS TO OPEN / AND OUT OF THIS TOMB / A NEW HEART BLED / THE BODIES EXHUMED / AGED FORGOTTEN / THEIR WHISPERING DOOM / UPON OUR HEADS / WAKE UP YOU SLEEPER / WITH PENS AND NEEDLES / 'CAUSE YOUR BED NEEDS SOME TURNIN'

Sleeper

Pieces

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

Never Enough

Track from "Skalpel" album, 2004, Ninja Tune

Skalpel - Break In ("Skalpel")

Arms and legs crossed. Cigarette in left corner of mouth.

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