Recorded and produced 
by greyshoes#music-berlin
10/2023.

The LP "Abandoned Rooms" on Bandcamp.
https://grey-shoes.bandcamp.com/album/abandoned-rooms-2

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Artwork by P. Werzlau. 
Use of the photography:
Abandoned Rooms I Verlassene Räume, 
streetscape, 2016 (detail)

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All musical vibrations
by Grey Shoes.
© All rights reserved

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Abandoned Rooms

The Masquerade - An Original Fairground Barker's Chant

I know you have come
out of boredom
You don't have to be ashamed
The crowd might be promiscuous
But no one will ask your name

The girl over there
lost her true love
because she was playing a game
I don't think he ever forgave her
and now it's all the same

Don't be afraid 
of the children
Enjoy their beauty instead
as they dance their way in the spotlight
They arrived here when they were dead

If you look through the roof
for a moment
You will see a fading rose
It carries the song of forbidden love
that in heaven will be disclosed

There are more rooms inside
to discover
If you are the curious sort
Truths of the world you will witness
and your senses it will distort

I can feel
that your heart was broken
by a love much too pure and true
In the chamber of ancient music
there are many clowns like you

Well your story
has its merits
but it resembles a dream to me
Let me guess: You never had her?
Or let's say just to a degree

You know, this cabaret
is peculiar
You can never return outside
With the tears of hearts disconnected
Its gates were fortified

Over it all 
floats a rainbow
No one knows what it signifies
It emerged from a dark lake in winter
Like the Devil in disguise

Our waiting room
is crowded
by men with a longing like yours
And she is always across the ocean
and her beauty made of metaphors

From here
you have a good view
The show will soon begin
The masquerade will seduce you
into a hardened grin!

The Masquerade - An Original Fairground Barker's Chant [remastered]

une funambule

LET IT GO

Vieille Montagne

- What Dreams  Of

During the late 90s to early 00s, I had taken piano lessons. One of the pieces I played were the Three Fantastic Dances by Dimity Shostakovich. This is a recording of the Waltz – Andantino, C major (it took me months to learn and some MIDI note editing to get there).

I used a bluetooth speaker, wrapped it in a muff, put a big cushion over it as if I were to choke it and recorded that. This instantly removed all higher frequencies. Everything below 1200 Hz is from the muffled recording with some Unfiltered Audio SpecOps treatment. The higher frequencies are from the original recording, with al little help from Unfiltered Audio Silo. In the mastering chain, there's a speaker simulation, which bandpasses the frequencies again to give it a nice, cheap feeling. 
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Disquiet Junto Project 0634: Bust a Move
The Assignment: Record a piece of music on top of a muffled recording of a piece of classical music.

Step 1: Locate a public domain recording of a piece of classical music, perhaps at archive.org.

Step 2: In some manner, muffle the original until it sounds like it is being heard from underground or through a thick wall. Perhaps run it through a low-pass filter. Or actually record it through a thick wall.

Step 3: Listen closely to what remains of the recording after Step 2.

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