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Demo #19 for FAWM ’22. A collab with FAWM member @dreamscuba. Lyrics and vocals by @spazsquatch Music by @dreamscuba
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Foolishness - A A J Russe
Written 3rd January 1988
Recorded 1st March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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While writing and recording songs for FAWM 2022 I discovered that I can create acoustic demos of nearly any song I've ever written…
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I Hope I Love Them - A A J Russe
Written sometime in 1989
Recorded 2nd March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This one has tugged at me for many many years.
I absolutely adored it from the moment I wrote it in 1989... But I thought…
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Based on a simple piano line by Chris Avery, which appears in its raw form in variation 2 after the introductory woodwind ensemble. Trying to channel Satie to Debussey to Elgar in 3 minutes.
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I was so disappointed in the youtube retention stats on the original version of this that I created this neoclassical version (the Imaginary Crowdpleaser Mix) thinking it would be more accessible. I renamed the original (I think I still like it…
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This is what could happen when you decide that jazz piano, bongos, and a pizzicato string trio might sound good together....
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Another elaboration of a groove by Chris Avery, this time with him on guitar, bass, and drums. He called it TBC, which got me thinking about the feeling of being a bit of unfinished work, a work in progress, of being, frankly, a bit of a disappointment…
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Please don't read this as any sort of commentary or disrespect of any kind. I did an instrumental mood piece and for no reason other than it seems to work well put a sample of a beautiful call to prayer over top of it.
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The basic track was done several years ago with Native Instruments FM8 soft synth. Last year I filled it out with Ableton Live 10 and theremin samples. The original intent was to capture the threatening mood of Peter Gabriel's The Intruder but…
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Supposed to be an intro to the next track. Needs more editing when I can find the time...
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The version of this on my YouTube playlist The Scorge had the top line melody in strings, which I always hated. This is as close as I could get before running out of time and energy. The timbre could be a bit more abrasive, but there it us.
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Sample from Glenn Gould radio show:
"I am fully aware of the fact that music is not primarily my field."
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“For You (Unmixed Acoustic Version)” by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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“Unfinished-1” by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
Outtake from the 2022 RPM Challenge Sessions. Meant to have lyrics but had writer's block and ran out of time. Remains an unfinished instrumental.
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“The Road” by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
Outtake from the 2022 RPM Challenge Sessions. 95% of the lyrics are from an AI lyrics songwriting generator, I changed a few lines to fit the song. The entire…
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“Shine” by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
Outtake from the 2022 RPM Challenge Sessions. Just one of those songs that doesn't seem to work. Wanted to recut the vocals because they were basically scratch…
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True story. Christmas Day 2022.
Jesus is a Black woman
I’ll let that sink in…
Jesus is a Black Woman
she lives on the street
outside the Laundromat
on University Ave
This is not an abstract concept
this is reality, not metaphor…
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The Feast - A A J Russe
Written 26th September 1985
Recorded 3rd March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This one's been sticking out of the shoebox for a long long while. It always shows up in a list of maybes. And it did this time…
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sampled coughing mixed and effected into an iPad app called seaquence that is kinda neat --- :)
the video of a track being made is here-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdGeGmI6Jtk
the link to freesound cough is here=
https://freesound…
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True autobiographical story, albeit shamelesslessly anthropomorphized, about my lockdown companion Vinnie The Cat.
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Just To Make It What You Want - A A J Russe
Written 1st October 2016
Recorded 4th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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I was going to choose a more uptempo one next, then this one jumped out of the shoebox at us, shouting "me me ME…
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having a fun time playing with some synthesizers :)
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The second experiment using only the word Don and I think some slapping my chest, only.
Manipulated in Ableton Live
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I've come to detest the sound of my own name. When my mom used to call me or my ex nag, it sounded like drums in my head. So I figured it would be cathartic and maybe funny to just say "Don" into the computer microphone and manipulate it in Ableton…
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Not my circus, not my monkeys
I’m not going down
Take all your trouble, on the double
Right on out of town
Last time that I saw you here
I thought I made it clear
We don’t need the likes of you around
It’s not my circus
It’s not…
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Dreams come true
I’m sure they do
How else could we be here tonight
Whatever the morning brings
It’ll be alright
Since we made it here
Not a moment to spare
Dreams come true
Look at how fast the days go by
It amazes me how time can…
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You say you want a better life
One that I just can’t provide
You say it’s getting hard to find
Any reason to even try
And I don’t even know what happened
Over time
We go on hoping it’ll all work out fine
Maybe you should go your way…
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Don’t Take it so Easy
But don’t make it Hard
Just find your way
Don’t get too close
Or go too far
Just find your way
Find a way, don’t give in
To the things that bring you down
Find a way to start living
The way you’d like to live…
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Rock n Roll Blue
I’m searching for you
Since you’ve gone away
Rock n Roll Blue
I’m looking for you every day
How can I find you?
Rock n Roll Blue
I’m hung up on you
And all that you do
Rock n Roll Blue
Is it for love, Love is so true…
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I think that I just saw a Ghost
It was a Ghost from my past
I think my past does haunt me
It’s with my mind it plays
I can’t believe you’d come back again
In the form of a ghost
I do believe I saw a ghost
And it’s a ghost that I have…
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