Lit. The Musical - My Memory's In The Music by Mim Paquin feat Mim Paquin
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Lit. The Musical - My Memory's In The Music - featuring Mim Paquin

All make way for the her royal highness! Got a melody stuck in my head. Made a song.

Renaissance Jam

SONG: Give My Ideas Back
VOCALS: Mim Paquin
GUITAR: Mim Paquin
ELECTRIC DRUMS: Nick Kovachi
(Kitchen) STUDIO ENGINEER: Mim Paquin, Nick Kovachi
Written & recorded: 2002

This song never made it to the band rehearsal phase. It was too not the style of my other music, and didn't fit into the band's idea of what we should sound like as a collective. It was never presented live, never rehearsed, never recorded other than this kitchen recording. 
I still love hearing that opening chord. It's so damned mid-90s alternative rock.

In 2000, I wrote this song based on articles that were surfacing about a certain late grunge rockstar's wife and her blossoming career. I found it funny that the former band mate of that dead rockstar wasn't getting the same kind of backlash she was. 

My music has always had a fiction writer's approach to its backstory. Premise: the wife wrote this song in his style, sang it in hers, and accompanied herself with the bandmate's musical style. 

Lyrics: first person narrative. She imitates her husband, imagining what he'd say as a ghost. And hears him saying, "Give my ideas back to me" from his grave. While at the same time, she quips back, mocking him, at the voice in her head, the ghost of him.

More about>>>
When you are trying to cobble together a band, or if you already have a band, and you only have yourself a singer songwriter-multi-instrumentalist with a proclivity for audio recording, and one other band member who is similar, you create demos for your bandmates, both present and future, for them to learn the music.  Demos like this are the ultimate shorthand for musicians of all levels and walks of life. 

Unlike classical musicians, rock musicians do not require sheet music or even charts for that matter. Most like to go through the process of listening, playing, transcribing, discovering things, and then adding THEIR take on the music being presented. 

I take that stuff to heart. When you're in a band it's the ultimate collaborative process that requires the band leader and songwriter to let go, and be open to and to allow interpretations and stylistic changes to happen. It's the nature of the process!

Give My Ideas Back - Kitchen Recordings (Demo songs for the band to learn) 2001

SONG: Strange
VOCALS: Mim Paquin
ACOUSTIC GUITAR: Mim Paquin
STUDIO ENGINEER/PRODUCER: David Colozzi
Written in 1996
Recorded in 1996 at Berklee College of Music.

Music producer and engineer major, David Colozzi asked for and received special permission from the college to use a non-student (me) as his music production and engineering final project. That was not something normally allowed by the college.

He pulled a session band together, and I instructed and directed them. It was during these rehearsal sessions where I wrote this song.

Strange - Full Band Studio Version - Berklee College Studios - 1996

SONG: In Your Mind	
VOCALS: Mim Paquin
GUITAR: Mim Paquin
STUDIO ENGINEER: Mim Paquin
Written in 2017
Recorded in 2018

Part of a series of three "Songs For The Late Mr. Cash"

I initially wrote this for a film, but that project fell-thru.
 "In Your Mind" features the original stream of conscious lyric writing done off-the-cuff vocal and lyric I came up with while listening to playback of the basic guitar track. Sometimes I have a concept for a song and I find that if I just sing the melody I've created the lyrics just flow. Sometimes when I do that, the lyrics can change the rhythm and the notes of the melody. There are so many ways to approach music. I most prefer to not have restraints on my various processes. 
My vocal on that isn't the best because I was working through the melody while adding improvised lyrics. This track certainly gives you an idea of my mind can do during a flow state.

This is not an official release, more of my concept of one.

Songs For The Late Mr. Cash - In Your Mind - working lyric & vocal

SONG: "It Always Reminds Me"
ALL VOCALS: Mim Paquin
GUITAR: Mim Paquin
STUDIO ENGINEER: Mim Paquin
Written in 2017
Recorded in 2019 on video. Audio was stripped from that video to post here on SoundCloud.

Part of a series of three "Songs For The Late Mr. Cash"

Written and performed by Mim Paquin in her living room in Westbury, NY in early January 2019. It was posted on Facebook a few months later.

I initially wrote this for a film, but that project fell-thru, so I decided to film myself singing and playing it to get it out of my system and put it "out there." The other two songs of this three part series, I never really fully developed. One of the underdeveloped songs does have a really rough recording of it with literal improvised vocal and lyric, it's titled: "In Your Mind" also posted here to SoundCloud. 

This is not an official release, more of my concept of one.

Songs For The Late Mr. Cash - It Always Reminds Me - working tracks

SONG: Give My Ideas Back
VOCALS: Mim Paquin
GUITAR: Mim Paquin
ELECTRIC DRUMS: Nick Kovachi
(Kitchen) STUDIO ENGINEER: Mim Paquin, Nick Kovachi
Written & recorded: 2002

My music has always had a fiction writer's approach to its backstory. The band liked this one. Featuring a real rough vocal which though the rehearsal process became streamlined and more logical. It's a process. The studio version of this song is also post on SoundCloud. I also have a live performance video of this song on my facebook page.

More about>>>
When you are trying to cobble together a band, or if you already have a band, and you only have yourself a singer songwriter-multi-instrumentalist with a proclivity for audio recording, and one other band member who is similar, you create demos for your band mates, both present and future, for them to learn the music.  Demos like this are the ultimate shorthand for musicians of all levels and walks of life. 

Unlike classical musicians, rock musicians do not require sheet music or even charts for that matter. Most like to go through the process of listening, playing, transcribing, discovering things, and then adding THEIR take on the music being presented. 

I take that stuff to heart. When you're in a band it's the ultimate collaborative process that requires the band leader and songwriter to let go, and be open to and to allow interpretations and stylistic changes to happen. It's the nature of the process!

She's Got One Second - Kitchen Recordings (Demo songs for the band to learn) 2002

I wrote this after moving to NYC in 2000. I was homesick, and I was thinking on memories of being in my bedroom when I was 10 years old and waking up on an early Saturday morning to the sound of kids - already outside playing. I loved playing games, especially baseball. (I eventually went on to be my high school's softball pitcher, but had to quit due to time management issues. I was in 6 choirs and 2 show choirs and drama club...) I love the game, I love movies that feature baseball either at the center or as a backdrop. Anyway, when I initially wrote this back then, it was with piano and voice. I recently decided to add an organ, kinda like one would hear at a game. 

That's all.

Memory (childhood and baseball) 2023 Remix

Funeral song from Dana McCoy's "Lily The Tiger" to Lily's family and friends, from the upcoming Album of songs from the show.

Dana McCoy - Lead Vocals, Ukulele
Mike Fornatale - Production, Guitars, Harmonies
Albert Bouchard - Drums, Harmonies
Alec Morton - Bass, Harmonies
Florence Marcisak - Percussion, Harmonies


*I Believe in Your Dreams (FINAL, lower BGs)

SONG: Circle of Fire
VOCALS: Mim Paquin
ACOUSTIC GUITAR: Mim Paquin
PIANO & SYNTH: Mim Paquin
GUITAR: Ethan Bartlett
BASS: Matt Kay
DRUMS: Nick Kovachi
STUDIO ENGINEER: Mim Paquin, Nick Kovachi
Written: 1995. 

This song took on a life of its own.  I wrote it in 1995.  This version is the most recent 2004 - it features my scratch vocal and had yet to be mixed down. There is another... 
Two previous version exist the first recording: an acoustic live studio version
and a full band version performed by studio musicians... 
read on...

It was originally recorded as an acoustic demo at Berklee in 1996 (available on this profile) when I was living in Massachusetts and frequented Boston as a singer-songwriter.  It was recorded again a few months later with a full band as an MP&E major's (David Colozzi) production final with special permission from the school. This song was epic on the Berklee campus for about 2 years.  It became associated with me, and truly took on a life of its own!

If you've been following along with the iterations of this song, you'll notice in the description for the 1996 full band version I mentioned the fact that the room we rehearsed in was where Dream Theater rehearsed. Well, when I live in NY, and moved to Long Island and started the band Neeto, we would rehearse under a deli in Rockville Center lovingly named, "The Meat Pit." One day during rehearsal, the owner came down and said, "You know, this is the room Dream Theater used to rehearse in, it's got good energy."
We looked around the room with old carpet on the walls for sound absorption and thought thoughts. My thoughts? I had two: "I wonder if this rusty red 1970s carpet was the same carpet they breathed into." and "I rehearsed in Dream Theater's room of choice at Berklee College six years ago!" Some memories.

She's Got One Second

Circle of Fire - She's Got One Second -  2004, NY

Re-release off the 2005 solo album UPROOTED by Mim Paquin.
Artist note: 
I wrote, performed all instruments and vocals, recorded, engineered and edited this alone in my apartment in the summer of 2005. At the time, I had planned on revisiting any previously created music to remaster or edit or reproduce. This song "Pictures of You" falls under the revisited and revised-- category.  Unlike other songs on the 10 song album, I liked that this one-- its structure and featured elements are nods to the artists by whom I was most influenced at the time.

LYRICS
I'm known for being sentimental
Got a box that's filled with mementos
[I've got pictures
pictures of you
I don't know what to do with them]

How did you explain to them 
when they don't know what is true?
All they know is what you'd say to them
stories only true to you.

Hey, hey. 
I'm trying to do the best I can,
'cause that's all that I can do.
Not expecting you to understand, 
hey man that's up to you.

How can you tell lies to me
as though I wasn't even there?
This comes as no surprise to me, 
'cause you never really care.

I'm trying to do the best I can,
because that's all that I can do.
Don't expect you to understand.
Hey man, that's really up to you.

Oh, already heard lies from friends.
Told me some stuff that you'd said--huh
How am I to reply to them?
I gotta tell them-- I don't know what to tell 'em.
I don't know what to tell them.

(Lookin' at mementos
your pictures's kept inside a box
I'm no more your dreamcatcher
looks like you've run out of luck

I'm trying to do the best I can
'cause that's all that I can do
I'm not expecting you to understand,
hey brother that's up to you.

I have pictures 
pictures of you
I don't know what to do with them

ORIGINAL: Pictures Of You -  Uprooted (2005) by Mim Paquin

mim@mimpaquin.com
New York
imdb.me/mpaquin
Visit https://soundcloud.com/mimpaquin-actress-singer 
page for some fun actor and singer tracks featuring me singing my original music as well as a long list of standard Broadway songs, jazz, classical oratorios, art songs, and opera arias. 

In late 2021, I released by my debut composer compilation album, Coffee Breakfast Compilation. You can check it out on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, or add it to your IG, FB, or TT stories. :)

I'm a composer, lyricist, musician, music producer, recording engineer, post-production and mastering; digital, midi, vst; acoustic (guitar, grand piano, bass, drums, voice), sound-scaping and foley artist.

Composing across media for Film, TV, Documentary, Web-series, and Musical Theater.

Trained: classical vocalist, musical theater performer, actor, and musician.
Professional: actor, singer, composer, screenwriter.

Humor inspires me. Truly. Check out my TikTok.
 
Have a listen to the sample work featured here and contact me if you have any questions.

My best,
Mim

Circle of Fire - She's Got One Second - 2004, NY

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