One Minute Songs

This comes from an album of 60 one-minute songs called, "One Human Minute." I've only recorded 19 of them, but all are written. You can hear the other tracks on my Bandcamp page here: https://petersaltzman.bandcamp.com/album/one-human-minute

I'm promising myself to get back to recording these in 2024 after a 4-year hiatus. We'll see if I live up to my promise...

Another Trip Around The Sun (one minute song #19)

Another one-minute song.  Listen to all of the currently recorded One Human Minute set on my Bandcamp page here: https://petersaltzman.bandcamp.com/album/one-human-minute

Sun In The Shade (One minutes songs #8)

This track, with the building strings, feels cinematic.

For all of the finished one-minute songs, go to my [Bandcamp Page for the album](https://petersaltzman.bandcamp.com/album/one-human-minute):

To hear more about my music and writing, visit my [website](https://www.petersaltzman.com/).

I’m posting sheet music for my originals and sometimes arrangements [here](https://www.petersaltzman.com/sheet-music/).

LYRICS:
It was Indian summer
I was fearing the fall
Of everything related
To anything at all

Change was coming
The shifting air
That fought the stillness
In summer’s last glare

I held onto that
The last sip of water
If I drank it was gone
But it was gone no matter

So I drank it in
The poison nectar
One last thrill
Of late September

Indian Summer (One Minute song #18)

For all of you who use arpeggiators (I use them too!), the synth line is not arpeggiated; it's played. Granted, I cleaned it up with some judicious quantizing. But hey, I'm a player.

You can hear all of the currently recorded tracks on this album of one-minute songs here: petersaltzman.bandcamp.com/album/one-human-minute

You can read more about my work here: www.petersaltzman.com/

LYRICS:
I slip on my shoes
I'm ready to run
But I fall from grace
Before I've begun

I wish I could see
The path they laid down
But I'm off the pace
There's no one around

I traveled the high road, I thought I was free
I could see the forest, but never the trees
I forged my own path but then went astray
When the trees grew back and covered the way

When The Trees Grew Back (One minute song #2)

One Minute Song #11

These songs veer towards the absurd at times…like this one. That's what happens when you try to fit a shit ton of ideas into one minute or less (or slightly more.)

For all of the finished one-minute songs, go to my [Bandcamp Page for the album](https://petersaltzman.bandcamp.com/album/one-human-minute):

To hear more about my music and writing, visit my [website](https://www.petersaltzman.com/).

LYRICS:

Days passed anxiously
Like they were impatiently
Waiting for the world
To rotate yet again on its axis

The same old, same old
Morning, noon, and night
Breaking up the eternal
Into semi-manageable parts

I’m waiting for something different to happen
Like, I don’t know, maybe a twenty-minute day or something

But it all goes ‘round the same
All comes back the same
All goes ‘round the same
All comes back the same

Days Passed (One minute song #11)

This one is jazz, a la my favorite pianist, McCoy Tyner.  Not the lyrics, though...

For all of the finished one-minute songs, go to my [Bandcamp Page for the album](https://petersaltzman.bandcamp.com/album/one-human-minute):

To hear more about my music and writing, visit my [website](https://www.petersaltzman.com/).

I’m posting sheet music for my originals and sometimes arrangements [here](https://www.petersaltzman.com/sheet-music/).

Lyrics:
She keeps lightening in a box
That sits on her dresser
Thunder in the closet
Under some sweaters

She takes a shower
To wash off her troubles
Dries her hair by the fan
To inflate the bubble

She keeps lightening in a box
She keeps lightening in a box

Lightning In A Box (one minute song #13)

Long story short: everything from solo piano to pop to orchestral film.  I wish I could focus on one thing but can't because I'm a MUSICIAN.

Lightning In A Box (one minute song #13)

Peter Saltzman