Name: Arise by LoganCastro in Music for Dance
Duration: 6 min 8 s
Description: Collaboration with Choreographer Forrest Hershey. Premiered During the Florida State University School of Dance's Spring Concert series "Days of Dance."

Music for Dance

Lyrics:

Got it out of my system
I really do miss em
I’m sure I’ll be back before I 
Even Realize

Oh But I know 
I’m playin to the system now
Paint it all rose
I can make myself forget somehow 
That’s just how it goes

Well shit
I guess I’m really starting to miss it
But that’s it I’m reminiscin 
Through the fog on my memory
It’s all colored rose

Truth is nobody knows
I guess we’re all guessin
To see rose
I guess thatsa blessin 
God knows
I’m tired of stressin
To learn to let go
Ain’t that a lesson

U can’t teach that in school 
can’t preach that to fools 
I wish u could but Thats just up to the individual 

I kept to the rules
Man what a tool
It’s easier to follow than individualize
Eyes been on the prize
But has what I’ve been playing for all been lies
I won’t lie it’s easy for me to fantasize 
Than face reality with unfiltered eyes

Got it out of my system
I missed em
I don’t know but it’s hard to see
That far ahead

Oh But I know 
I’m playin right into the system now
I can make myself forget 
But that doesn’t get rid of it

Hurt now and indulge from your success 
Or indulge now and hurt from your failure
I know how easy it is, looking for comfort
To go to what’s been holding u back

I can’t tell u my problems
I don’t even know them 
I think I rationalized them
And see em through a lens
That covers all my missteps
All my messups 
Playin catchup 
For everything I passed up


Truth is nobody knows
I guess we’re all guessin
To have that rose
Ain’t that a blessin 
God knows
I’m tired of stressin
To learn to let go
Ain’t that a lesson

U can’t teach that in school 
can’t preach that to fools 
I wish u could but Thats just up to the individual

I kept to the rules
Man what a tool
It’s easier to follow than individualize
Eyes been on the prize 
But has what I’ve been playing for all been lies
I won’t lie it’s easy for me to fantasize 
Than face reality with unfiltered eyes

Rose

Lyrics:

build a castle from my cards
pray I don't realize we're counterparts
crush me between your gears
we'll pull out the fingers
seated in your ears

scathe off our sharpest edges
weed out the unloved dredges
in the umbra we'll be waiting
for we both know the ice you're standing on 
is quickly fading

(chorus)
watch the leaves dwindle from the tree
fencing with the wind and the pulling force of gravity
they're scattered on the playground 
shrivling in motion
with weights on our necks 
awaiting the implosion

'cause we both know the ice you're standing on is melting

system weaver
dealer and deceiver
perfect ending
tired of pretending

plug the last vein to our hearts
build a castle from our cards
plug the last vein to our hearts
build a castle from our cards

lock arms

(chorus)
watch the leaves dwindle from the tree
fencing with the wind and the pulling force of gravity
they're scattered on the playground 
shrivling in motion
when we're old enough we'll
burn them all down

Rigged

Your Romeo

Collaboration with Choreographer Forrest Hershey. Premiered During the Florida State University School of Dance's Spring Concert series "Days of Dance."

Forrest Hershey's Album

Arise

In Three Unfolded Simultaneities:
1: "Carabosse"
2: "the Lilac Fairy"
3: "Princess Aurora"

A Waking Beauty

An Element Play in Four Fundamental Motions:

1. Deep Below, Long Ago
2. Grow out of Yourself
3. Rain on the Mountain Side
4. The Ocean Bellows

Excerpts from a three hour Improvisation with prompts driven by Choreographers and Multimedia Artists Bridget Close, and Rachel Hunter

Improv 03: Element Play

Free High

Breakaway

Holdin

Rendezvous

Waiting

Home

Home (updated 2021)

A few years ago I was fiddling around on my piano. For whatever reason, I plucked out the melody from "The Star Spangled Banner." And, I thought to myself, "I wonder what this would sound like with a funny and scary Russian spin on it?"  Now, years later - with nothing better to do during my spare COVID quarantine time - I finally created this pet project joke I've had in the back of my head.

Amerussia - The New Global Anthem - By Jeff Cuno

Originally a part of Aigars Larionov's "XY21", a stage work of dance and music.

no.47 Exhaustion

Matrix - (demo)

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Contact: LoganCastroMusic@gmail.com

Arise

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