Very moving...sweet flow of the deepest love💕. I can feel your connection with it🦋

Piano meets beats. You have in fallen into the rabbit hole, the acclaimed tracks of The Nate Who Grooves.

Into The Rabbit Hole (Instrumental 2023)

The Last Wave

Saints And Sinners

Crystal Dream

Searthym

I was going to sit this one out. Then I wondered what the image would sound like imported as raw data into Audacity.  Great blasts of white noise static, no surprise there. About to delete it, I put it through multiple layers of full reverb on a whim and was pleasantly surprised to hear it transform into a huge, bell-like drone which seemed to crawl around inside itself.

I tried importing the image using different parameters and got a much longer blast of noise, which was similarly treated and became the canvas on which four differently treated versions of the first, shorter one have been arranged in the manner of the image (using the ‘completeness’ of each circle to decide how much to treat each track). These were treated with BlueCat, Convoluter, Phaser and Harmonic Adder, along with being double-tracked out of phase in differing pitches and degrees of reverb.

Sorry it’s so long, I needed a big canvas.

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The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases.

A combined play on a Brian Eno phrase and a John Cage visual motif is pretty much foundational Disquiet Junto territory. This week, interpret this image as a graphic score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/frxh96qwx5a2qgm/junto-0557-weidenbaum.png?dl=0 

More on this 557th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Condensation Is a Form of Change (The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score that depicts four phases) — at: https://disquiet.com/0557/ 


More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto /

Four drones on a ground [disquiet0557]

emotional track.the Rapper here goes off to talk about the pain he's going through . growing up without a Mother , finding out that he has a sister after many years of thinking he's the only one his mother gave birth to.

TOO MUCH PAIN

A HEARTWARMING SURPRISE! Ana Ros, frequent Kompoz collaborator, surprised us by inviting 4 brilliant vocalists to sing my lyric along with her to Scott Wisenbaker's lovely musical composition, and Moe Howard and Du Brae added their phenomenal talents. Thank you to Ana, Martin, Stef, Whit, and Mart for their gorgeous vocals, Moe his beautiful keys, and Du Brae for blending these wonderful talents. I must say, it was an amazing feeling hearing those five great voices sing my words.

THE AGE OF THE MINSTREL (Lyrics and Credits)

Copyright 2023 Wisenbaker/O'Brien/Ros/Howard/Greenslade/Kisamore/Lobemeier/Rinaldo/Kraken
Music by Scott Wisenbaker, Ana Ros, Moe Howard, Mart Greenslade, Stefanie Kisamore, Martin Landolf Lobemeier, Whitman Rinaldo, Agent TFS Kraken
Lyrics by Alex O'Brien, SOCAN

Bass: Scott Wisenbaker
Keys: Moe Howard
Vocals: Ana Ros, Mart Greenslade, Stefanie Kisamore, Martin Landolf Lobemeier, Whitman Rinaldo
Production: Agent TFS Kraken

Our poets and our prophets
Are in their final act
There’s no looking forward
There’s only looking back
But oh what songs they’re singing
Oh what beauty their words show
But as to how we should be living
Well, we didn’t really know

The Age of the Minstrel
Image and the Song
Told a million stories
Got much right, much wrong
I don’t want to say it’s over
And I have no regrets
But as to how I should be living
I haven’t found out yet

Our leaders and our bankers
Well, they were only men
Power, greed, and envy
Ravaged justice yet again
They say that things are changing
Maybe slowly over time
As to how we should be living

The Age of the Minstrel
The Image and the Song
We had our share of glory
Pretended we were strong
And I don’t want to say it’s over
I’m sure we’ll find a way
But as to how we should be living
That’s for another day 
 
Our Bishops and our Imams
Are mired in the past
And there’s no compromises
Our difference too vast
Whatever world they promise
Oh what comfort they might bring
But how we should be living
Well, they messed up everything

The Age of the Minstrel
The Image and the Song
We watched a million movies
And felt that we belonged
And I don’t want to say it’s over
And I still have hope
But as to how I should be living
Well, I just try to cope 
 
The Age of the Minstrel
The Image and the Song
We told a million stories
Got much right and much wrong
Well, I don’t want to say it’s over
And I have no regrets
But as to how I should be living
I haven’t found out yet

The Age of the Minstrel

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: August 25, 2023

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