Name: Answer me by Michael Adams
Duration: 3 min 12 s
Description: Answer me are you for real, Answer me now are you for real. Rumors abound regarding your existence here. Please reassure us you're sincere. Are you on the up and up? Tell me how can we be sure? If we find something is amiss, my fine young friend I promise this, your body will be found washed up upon the rocky shore.

I couldn't sleep, so I made this.

I was doing some research on tuning a Kalimba, and found this note progression to be interesting and just kept layering from there.

In With The Old, Out With The New

Answer me are you for real, Answer me now are you for real. Rumors abound regarding your existence here. Please reassure us you're sincere. Are you on the up and up? Tell me how can we be sure? If we find something is amiss, my fine young friend I promise this, your body will be found washed up upon the rocky shore. 

Answer me

This song was inspired by dazzlingly intense times in the City of Light.  5/4 ripples of koto, accordion, toy piano, moaning horns, sappy sirens, glittering glitches, grinning gasps for air in a flood of way too much information and emotion under that stupid tower.  While writing and reflecting on these times, I also did an exhibition of paintings called HEAVYLIGHT at the Invisible Hand Gallery in my home base Lawrence, Kansas.  Thanks to philosopher Sid Premak for the line, "a noun is a slow verb."  Massive thanks to engineer Brian Miller for bringing his gear to my art studio and recording most of these tracks which I've mixed into the florid over-indulgence you hear now.

HEAVYLIGHT

Instrument: Guzheng
Musicians: Derek Long, Eriq Roberts

Cruel Mountain by Still Water

Instruments: Cello, Juno 2, Banjo
Musicians: Brett Grady, Brian Miller, Derek Long

Answer me

Michael Adams

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