Name: Sonidos Del Camino by ozerik
Duration: 5 min 27 s
Description: A track created for the Hardware Jams Facebook group. A friend and I wrote the song in college in the early '90s. It's usually performed with a guitar. I sang the vocals first, using my phone's audio recorder feature. I then live-jammed my DIY modular synth to try to get the instrumentals to match the vocals.

I spent the summer of 1995 living with my sister and her family in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" was on the radio,  but I had just discovered "Oxygene" by Jean-Michel Jarre and "Encounter" by Michael Stearns.  I spent my days delivering pizzas,  and in the evenings exploring as much of the surrounding natural and cultural landscape as I could.  I visited the Acoma Pueblo,  took in a performance of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Santa Fe Opera House,  hiked Sandia Mountain, wandered through the roads and paths around Taos,  and ate more than my fair share of green chilis.

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New Mexico, Summer 1995

You wake up in a dark sewage tunnel and walk towards a faint neon light  in the distance. The lights spark and flicker along the way and then... oh god-run!

Get Out Now

Play
Learn
Connect
Share
Dance
Flow
Rest
Breathe
Remember the children are the future.
We come to learn and play together. <3

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Emergency Situation!  Anvil Needed Immediately!  Perhaps the bateria will provide some aid.

Emergency Anvil Situation

It's 2am,  and you're driving across Nebraska,  or maybe it's the Moroccan desert.  You've just seen a sign that says "Next Services, 56 Miles,"  and you have a quarter tank of gas.  The sky is full of stars. You're relaxed and alert, alone with your thoughts...

…and a quarter tank of gas.

Quarter Tank Of Gas

The ghost of French West Africa's best kalimba player washes up on the rocky shore of Virginia in 1897.  Not yet realizing he's dead,  he builds a fire beneath a lonely lighthouse, carefully dries his instrument and begins to play.  As the notes drift through the night sky he is joined by sea sirens and wood sprites who gather to sing and dance and play. All through the night, music for the memory of lost souls floats through the forest and along the water's edge.

Their song is a celebration of death, but also of life, and the dancing and music continue until the pastels of early morning clouds begin to paint the horizon. Sunrise approaches, and the ghost's final performance quietly draws to a close, leaving only the sound of the ocean waves gently breaking on shore and a single lone, battered kalimba, drifting out with the tide.

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On Feb. 20, 2012, Precious Reed, a 31-year-old father of four and ordained minister, was shot dead in the parking lot of the lawn bowling area of Seattle's Woodland Park. Reed and a friend went to the park to buy several pounds of marijuana, but the drug deal was a setup to rob Reed of more than $1,000 in cash.

This requiem is dedicated to the memory of Precious Reed

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A track created for the Hardware Jams Facebook group. A friend and I wrote the song in college in the early '90s. It's usually performed with a guitar. I sang the vocals first, using my phone's audio recorder feature. I then live-jammed my DIY modular synth to try to get the instrumentals to match the vocals.

Sonidos Del Camino

ozerik

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