The beat(https://soundcloud.com/shani_ace/github) for this song evolved through 2016-2020 until it got that rock-y vibe I was looking for.

It's a song about resisting oppression when you're feeling paralyzed and powerless against all kinds of authorities.
Be that politicians, police, parents or generally the old generation holding back the young generation when it comes to climate change, the pandemic, discrimination and even people fighting for friggin toiletpaper!

Some have pointed out a Linkin Park vibe that I previously wasn't aware of but it makes total sense, they're one of my favourite bands!
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Lyrics:

Paralyzed & Powerless

Verse:
			
This goes out to all the people in power					
The “authority” keeping us in a chokehold
The old guard tryna take control
Of the young generation as a whole
To all the overbearing parents and grandparents
You didn’t exactly leave us the best inheritance
The planet’s dying, as are many ill and sick people
But you focus on money not the will of the people
Instead of fostering a sense of community
You divide us with fear and with stupid greed
Get peepz fighting over toilet paper in the store
With some support/ we could do so much more
Instead of riding the waves like a Jetski
You keep us down, you don’t want us to get free
I can’t deny, how much it affects me
I feel paralyzed, ‘cause you won’t let me:

Hook (2x):

Feel/ I belong									
Think/ nothing’s wrong
Know/ that I’m strong
Live / how I want
Try/ to succeed
Aim/ For my shot
Get / what I need
Give/ all I got

Bridge:

All the times I wanted something from you					
But never got anything
All the times I needed something from you
You weren’t there to help me, nooo
All the times I wanted something from you					
I never got anything, anything
All the times I wanted something from you
I just got shit

Verse:

You won’t give me what I want, what I need					
Sometimes I’d just want you to see/ How you’re endlessly
... hampering/ chances of others
And how you’re pretending/ to stand above others
Instead of lending/ a hand you just smother
Anyone who needs cover/ you abandon your brothers 
Which is evidently/ not very friendly
But I’m not expecting you to understand me
Cause you and I, we live in different worlds
You got the power to help/ I got neither power nor help
You won’t let me fullfil my potential 
But tell me everything I do is inconsequential
I could do so much good, be so much more
But now I can’t even pick myself up from the floor
Instead of making my own thing like Etsy
I feel powerless, ‘cause you won’t let me:

Hook (2x)

Canto :

All the times I wanted something from you					
You just didn’t care
But every time you needed help from me
I was there, I was thehehere

Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless	
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless

Paralyzed & Powerless
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Powerless
Powerless
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed, so paralyzed 

Outro:

Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fuck you-ou-ou-ou						

Fuckyouuuu

Fuck, Fuck, Youououou

Paralyzed & Powerless

This is Jim , I'm not in, leave a message, I'll get back to you (The opening track and title of the last Brahms’ 3rd Racket album)

Gretchen Corbett

Buy it, now!

From the album, “Wet Work (Vol. II)” A musical ode to the gals who strap on to go to work every day (strap on their HOLSTERS, I mean, whaddit ya think?)

Wet Work (Vol. II)

Dyke Cop

Pictures of you: those lips and those big blue eyes
Falling asleep with a smile that can't be disguised

Boxed memories that I stored away to hide, from myself
Tracing all the dots we never placed in our time and space

Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep
Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep

Back when I was young, I may have seemed one way
But I would always fumble all the words that I tried to say
Trying to play it cool in front of you
That's all I ever really seemed to do
Trying to play it cool in front of you
That's all I ever really seemed to do


Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep
Even if it's only in my dreams
You've still got me smiling in sleep

A decade and a half since we were teens
And you've still got me smiling in my sleep

Words & Music by Sean Parsons © 2020

Smiling in my Sleep

Rainfall

Progressive Investigations

With respect to form, this piece follows the line of work started in my previous work "Parsimonious Chords", which was based on the "Tonnetz" graph formed by the notes of the major and minor triads. The current work is based on the "generalized Tonnetz" that includes the previous Tonnetz but also other similar graphs defined in spaces formed by chords of any number of notes. This concept is precisely defined by Dmitri Tymoczko in his excellent article "The Generalized Tonnetz" (https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/tonnetzes.pdf). In my specific case I have worked with four Tonnetz: those formed by chords of two, three, four and six notes. In each of them I have used Hamiltonian paths (those that visit all the chords of the graph only once) to define the harmony and the conduction of voices.

With respect to the expressive character, this work is influenced by the harshness of the health crisis that the world is experiencing and also by the atmosphere of the Christmas dates in which it was written.

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Perdidos por caminos de espacios de acordes

En cuanto a la forma, esta pieza sigue la línea de trabajo iniciada en mi anterior obra "Parsomonious Chords", que estaba basada en el grafo "Tonnetz" formado por las notas de las tríadas mayores y menores. La obra actual está basada en el "Tonnetz generalizado" que incluye al anterior Tonnetz pero también otros grafos similares  definidos en espacios formados por acordes de un número cualquiera de notas. Este concepto lo define con precisión Dmitri Tymoczko en su excelente artículo "The Generalized Tonnetz" (https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/tonnetzes.pdf). En mi caso concreto he trabajado con cuatro Tonnetz: los formados por acordes de dos, tres, cuatro y seis notas. En cada uno de ellos he utilizado caminos hamiltonianos (aquellos que visita todos los acordes del grafo una sola vez) para definir la harmonía y la conducción de voces. 

En cuanto al carácter expresivo, esta obra está influenciada por la dureza de la crisis sanitaria que el mundo está viviendo i también por el ambiente de las fechas navideñas en la que ha sido escrita.

Lost on paths of chord spaces

Drift tells a story, lost at sea, searching for hope...

Drift

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who supports me and who listens to my music. I really appreciate this. This track is for you guys. Happy New Year everyone

Thank you

A Cool One Too

Colomiers

A piece of music is a mentally constructed entity, of which scores and performances are partial representations by which the piece is transmitted.
(Fred Lerdahl & Ray Jackendoff)

Any tone can succeed any other tone, any tone can sound simultaneously with any other tone or tones, and any group of tones can be followed by any other group of tones, just as any degree of tension  or nuance can occur in any medium under any kind of stress or duration. Successful projection will depend upon the contextual and formal conditions that prevail, and upon the skill and soul of the composer.
(Vincent Persichetti)

Music is a system of signs composed of complex forms which may be represented by physical sounds, and which in this way mediate between mental and psychic contents. To deal with such a system, semiotics are naturally evoked. To describe these forms, mathematics is the adequate language. To represent these forms on the physical level, physics are indispensable. And to understand the psychic contents, psychology is the predestined science.
(Guerino Mazzola)

Lost on paths of chord spaces

Ramon Capsada Blanch