Recorded as part of the 2022 Fawm 4-track tape challenge

We have
@vomvorton - synth
https://fawm.org/fawmers/vomvorton/  
@Marvsmooth - ominous bass
https://fawm.org/fawmers/marvsmooth/
@Wobbiewobbit vox / lyrics
https://fawm.org/fawmers/wobbiewobbit/
and myself on drum machine

FAWM 2022 - 4 Track Challenge - Tape 12- Suspended in the Fearful dark

FAWM 2022

Fawm 2022 - Tape 12 - 4Track Challenge - Suspended In the fearful dark

Fawm 2014 - 14 songs in 28 days..
This is song 3. Pigs, titled after Skirmish 1.

One hour to write and record a song.

Used the Struxxure app to come up with the structure of intro verse chorus solo chorus.  So a very short song.

One take guitar, solo and bass.
Drums using ezdrummer americana kit, but metal foundry midi
Synth from Padshop
Vocals done badly (since trying to be quiet, since people are sleeping in the house)

Not really mixed.  Not mastered


Pigs (Demo)

Rough Demo using EZKeys to provide a backing.  The piano might be removed later.  drums is ez drummer.  No real thought given to the drums.
Guitar is tuned to DGDGBD for the chorus
5 string bass

A winter's Memory (Demo)

Well you get the idea.
Vocal melody needs sorting out and words refactored to fit the melody.
I though originally the lyrics would scan into the song (they did in my head).  I don't think they do now.
So different melodies in each verse and chorus.  Oh well. it is  demo.  

It will all be fixed in the re-write.  Including speeding the damn thing up. Adding new sections.  Writing a third verse and bridge.


Beside Me (Demo)

I believe this was written and tracked one Sunday afternoon in January 2007.

Tats Mcgee was visiting me, at the time and we thought we would try and write a song in an afternoon.

Drums were tracked live, by Tats, on my Ion electronic drumkit.  I believe the drums and vocals are one take.

This later turned up on the debut album by Dedhed.

Given the project is so old.  I have upgraded it to Cubase 7.5 and done some EQ and level tweks.  Not added any new effects and obviously no buss processing or mastering.  So it is pretty close to how it was recorded.

I never did get around to putting a guitar solo in it.

Penny For Them (Demo)

A track about love and murder.

The title was given to me during FAWM (February Album Writing Month) 2015 and was inspired by a comment by a friend whilst at university,
when discussing his then girlfriend, it was something similar to "I love her, but sometimes I look at her and just want to bury her head under the pillow".

Nice chap!

Note:  The guitar solo is played on a second hand pink stratocaster copy, I got off Ebay for £30.  I bought it as a present and recorded this whilst playing around with it.

Waking from a long sleep 
A vision of you 
Head under a pillow
 I was never so cruel 
It was so easy 
Though I'm not thinking straight 
Why is it love, comes with such hate 

And the winter remembers 
The Ghost of You 
The coldness, The Darkness 
The screams and untruths 
And the memory sparkles 
As the night draws near
 Into my silence
You're worshipped and revered 

Snow falls on the landscape 
On coats of blue Ice breaks and dredgers 
Still looking for clues
It was so easy 
To make them understand 
The love of a woman 
Melting a man

Rollasoc