thank you tyler shaw for recording and adding vocal parts ! wouldn’t sound the same without your ear

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NOCHE DEMO -CRYSS

do you gather tears to bathe in loathe 

or do they rejuvenate your soul ?

carolina

motion sickness (cover)

diamonds on the souls of her shoes ( cova )

piano by Taylor Mackall
mixed & mastered by Eric Ruscinski
photo by Neema Sadeghi

Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters (Cover)

Les Deux Escargots
An original setting of “Chanson des escargots qui vont à l’enterrement” by Jacques Prévert

This is one of Connie’s several experiments in homebrew “multi-track” recording. Each instrument was recorded, then played back over the hi-fi while Connie accompanied the playback on another instrument. From the sound of it, the vocal was the last element to be recorded. The result is a one-woman living room orchestra, with the oldest layers sounding most distant, as they’ve been played back and re-recorded the most.

Connie created musical settings from the texts of other writers (Whitman, Cummings) in a handful of extant recordings and scores, but “Les Deux Escargots” is unique among them in that she’s singing in another language. According to her alumni card from Mt. Holyoke College, Connie indicates French as her major, and indeed her pronunciation here is above average for an American who, as far as we know, never travelled to continental Europe.

Connie would later send a copy this tape to her brother Phil, accompanied by the following caption:

“This is a dub taken from an experimental recording, included here for laughs. Instrumentation: two drinking glasses, two pencils, empty Kleenex box, alto recorder, guitar. I couldn’t really concentrate on the singing part...”

Connie Converse - Les Deux Escargots

A dark country take on "the Sound of Music" for National Songwriting Month 2016 Day #5

Lyrics:
Sent out of the convent for being a problem
Assigned to a militant home where the whistle's used to keep things in line

You climb every mountain, ford every stream
The Captain of the house has caught your eye 
and you heart, and you retreat without goodbye

Bringing joy and a song isn't terribly wrong, in fact it's one of your favorite things
So you dress up in curtains and climb up a tree and suffer   the wrath   that it brings

You climb every mountain, ford every stream
and the brook trips and falls over rocks on its way
and the folks in that quite remote town have someting to say

Totally unprepared to face a world of men 
Regretfully they tell us and firmly they compel us to go

You climb every mountain, ford every stream
slip out the back 'fore the festival's done
and "fa" is a long long way to run


Maria's Song (demo) NaSoWriMo 2016 Day 5

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