Words and beats written, tracked, and mastered by Jason Charles Parry from Fairbanks Alaska.

Thanks for listening,

Self Love Test.


Dance More

All instrumental parts were written using a Juno GI. Dreamer, was mastered in Adobe Audition 3.0.

Written by Jason Charles Parry while in Fairbanks Alaska.

Dreamer

Piano played by Vika Yermolyeva (aka vkgoeswild),
"Award-winning classical pianist, who decided to try something else." (http://www.vkgoeswild.com/)

I don't claim any rights to Ms. Yermolyeva's skills on this track. She has an album coming out soon with your help. Please support her work. It's fucking incredible. Check her out and give what you can.

~SLT

-(JP)-

Vika Yermolyeva's video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhgAfIAVJY

Vika Yermolyeva's home page: 
http://www.vkgoeswild.com/

AWOL Nation Sail Remix

These are the darkest days, and it comes as no surprise, someday I'll be back by your side. Go crazy. Celebrate something today. Be amazed easily. Run till you throw up. Hug a dog.

Thanks for listening. Lyrics inspired by Dog Fashion Disco's "Adultery" album.

By Your Side

Remix of Real Dom's track: Punish.

Hi from Fairbanks Alaska!

~ SLT

Punish Remix (Real Dom)

This track is an antithesis poem I set to dance music. Everything written, recorded, and mastered by SLT from Fairbanks Alaska.

America looks for the big win. The rally. Greatest strength, greatest weakness. I don't look down on anyone for their nature, their culture. And that's what I'm frustrated about with insurgent terrorist acts and our social response as a cultural issue. Folks put up a bunch of flags, it seems like support. It also spreads awareness of the act. Insurgents (terrorists) get street cred on that sort of thing. 

"Look at the glory of his actions, you see how he was remembered and how many infidels are aware of our acts now! Don't you want that power? For your family, for your parents you take this act and you will strike fear into their hearts and you will make us legend."
And then kids say yes cause a bunch of folks made their face pics Parisian flags.
Violent acts pick up when insurgents get scared , when their plans don't work. And I know it's a small thing. Just a profile pic in this example, but it's still not a response that makes sense to me.
I'm great at parties like that though. Laugh a minute.
Anytime we respond to these acts anywhere in the world there's that first wave, folks who share the news as a first source, then second, third and so on... Trending all the way down. The further the trend gets the more the blooming process tree inspires acts, both violent and response to violence. We have this dance, that we do Vs. no one says anything and we work to resolve what we can. We take care of the folks. We learn how to resolve what we can't currently fix and talk about the critical thought as we can apply it to where we can go from here but, most importantly continue about our lives. 

Share the jokes instead of: "Let's make today another national holiday." Fuck that. Radio silence. Send support direct as much as you individually can. Talk about it over the phone, whatever. This isn't something to get hung up on. The insurgents will, by necessity of promoting their cause using violent action, wait till the trend cools off and then strike us again to keep it going, keep moving. Give the response they won't expect. Ignore it publicly. 
Good on the folks who act in support with love in their hearts. But updating a profile picture with a flag, or anything like that means something else than what we want in a global context as empathizers and that's the game. It sucks. 
I'm not chastising folks for wanting to be unified. This song is parody, an antithesis poem, a response before someone says: "Let's get David Bowie, Weird Al, Beyonce, Prince, and Kanye all in a room and track an entire album about killers and their victims, their survivors already so these insurgents can see how much power they actually have over us." We have it good enough to have this much time on our hands.
If you read this far, thank you. And thanks for listening.
An exercise in empathy: think of any situation like going through a grocery store and you're shopping for your family. Hmmm... Chelsea likes apples, we'll get some apples (apples in the cart). Tom always starts his morning with coffee, we'll get some coffee. Then you come to the anchovies. Hmmm. No... I don't know anyone who likes anchovies so I'm going to make sure no one can ever eat anchovies again. Then I'm gonna burn the store down.

Don't be that guy. Teach your kids the values you want to see in the world. Make them carry that in their hearts. Get better. Life is so beautiful and awesome it's ridiculous that we're even here able to have this conversation and think critically about how to resolve, or predict anything at all. What makes us different from primates is the deductive reasoning we developed as we evolved  our hunter's eyes. How does a doctor know that if you take this medication for this long you'll get better? Is she a psychic? No. It's bricolage. Make sense of the environment and trust your instincts.

Someone's listening! Never give up!

-SLT



Let US

All lyrics, beats and tunes by Jason Charles Parry for Self Love Test.

Tattoo started off as a poem I wrote after I won my first slam poetry competition in Ames Iowa at the Space for Ames. Iowa State University invited me to read the piece for their 2010 first amendment day speech. It was performed at Hamlin University with Love Rhino, and on tour all over the country playing drums for the incredible party rock band, Mumford's. I got the idea to set the poem to music from shows with fellow poets Jim Coppoc, Nate Logsdon and Xavier Cavazos.

Thanks to Molly Mcdonald for always lending an ear, and some trail mix.

Thanks for listening!

-SLT ~ 11/23/2015

Tattoo

Lyrics, guitars, analog synth, vocals and remastering done by Jason Charles Parry for Self Love Test.

Drums, and original backing beat done by The Dial Up Kid, who remastered Real Dom's "Just a Little Bit"

Check out their work and thanks for listening!

~SLT

Home Is A Heart

Lyrics written and tracked by Jason Charles Parry for Self Love Test on 11/27/2015. Beat taken from Designedbythestreets.com and Tone The Movemaker.

Hi from Fairbanks Alaska friends.

Keep your head up.

-(SLT)-

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