Name: Something (acoustic demo) by Box of Strings
Duration: 2 min 52 s
Description: Original song written and performed by Indio Romero

Your songs are really awesome, I'm a total fan now

Nice melancholic tone to this - well sung and played - well done !

Really great powerful song and all the better for the honest stripped down delivery

this is a demo?!  beautiful clean sound, and such a smooth boice!

Great chords used in this track. Good job

Nice tune, dude!! Hope to see it developed!!!

Look Into The Sky And See

Extract from the track n°2 on the Scots Wha Hae album (2022), "White Cross" opens with some traditional Scottish marchs and then turns into an energetic "Scotland The Brave" that rocks a while to illustrate this white cross on the Scottish flag.
Extrait de la deuxième piste de l'album Scots Wha Hae, "White Cross" vous propose un voyage revigorant débutant par des marches traditionnelles écossaises, puis ouvrant sur une reprise très rock du standard "Scotland The Brave" pour illustrer la croix blanche du drapeau écossais.

Scots Wha Hae

White Cross (extract)

Up beat rock song with vocal harmonies and crunchy guitars

Ride On

Quaalude Blues

Lonely

Original song written and performed by Indio Romero

Pasta

Something (acoustic demo)

Collected Dew Accros The Land

Dinosaurs and Meteors

Life is changing
most of the time,
but if you are near me,
I’m fine.

Hope’s not dying
most of the time.
I’ll be right here with you—
it’s fine.

Glowing fragments in the night,
we turn towards the sky,
and I’m holding your hand
while we watch the light.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors,
hoping everything
will be alright.

A new era
from time to time.
There’s before and after—
it’s fine.

Glowing fragments in the night,
we turn towards the sky,
and I’m holding your hand
while we watch the light.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors.
We are dinosaurs,
watching meteors,
hoping everything
will be alright.

If this is what marks a new era for us,
a before and after today,
caused by a comet dividing our past
and taking the old life away—
how is it that we are the dinosaurs
and the comet at the same time?

Are we dinosaurs
or the meteors?
Are we dinosaurs
or the meteors?
Are we dinosaurs
or meteors?

Songaweek 16 2025

Dinosaurs and Meteors

Must’ve forgot

Amber Daydream

Written: 2019-20
Duration: ca. 21'
Instrumentation: string quartet
Commissioned by The Indianapolis String Quartet
Premiere: The Indianapolis String Quartet, Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, New York, NY, March 5, 2020.
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/string-quartet-no-3

PROGRAM NOTES
String Quartet No. 3 consists of five movements that explore “other voices,” either literally or figuratively. In a literal sense, this could mean speaking or singing in a way that is not considered normal or even out of one’s control. It could also mean speaking differently for a desired effect. Figuratively, “other voices” could mean a voice that is not one’s own. All five movements touch on these definitions in one way or another.

The first movement, Twist and Shout, uses musical patterns that sound like stuttering or someone who has a severe form of Tourette’s Syndrome. I use these sounds as a technical point of departure, incorporating jagged rhythms, erratic melodic patterns, and sudden volume shifts throughout the movement.

The second movement is entitled Poet Voice, and uses this style of reciting poems as a point of departure. In particular, this movement is based on a video of Louise Glück reading her poem “The Wild Iris,” which is included in a book of poems of the same name for which Glück won the Pulitzer Prize. Glück’s poem compares human suffering and finding a voice to the growth of a wild iris that makes a “passage from the other world” underground, despite the difficulty of breaking through. In the image of the wild iris, the explosion of color symbolizes new life. In this movement, I mimic Glück’s speech patterns and structure the movement around the sound of her voice and the content of her poem, essentially giving new life to her poetic reading. 

The third movement, Auction Chant, is inspired by North American auctioneering, which is a rapid-fire, rhythmic repetition of numbers and “filler words” spoken by auctioneers in the process of conducting an auction. This movement is also inspired by country fiddle music, which is a type of music often played in areas where auctioneering takes place.

In the fourth movement, Effects Pedal, I mimic sounds made by electronic effects pedals—and in particular, a vocal effects pedal, but without the use of actual electronic effects on the stringed instruments. I also use musical effects that sound somewhat like swallowing helium, which raises your voice when you inhale it, or sulfur hexafluoride, which lowers it.

The final movement is entitled Anthem. In this patriotic-sounding, yet slightly humorous movement, I weave together various sports themes and state songs from around the United States that are used to rile up fans at sports games.

String Quartet No. 3 was commissioned by The Indianapolis Quartet.

Something (acoustic demo)

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