i'm working on what i think might be a series of concept songs, kind of inspired by the ee cummings poem "pity this busy monster manunkind" plus some other ideas. maxheadroom (the content song) has the pink floyd "ghost of syd" riff. decline of society, dystopian devo-sapian tragedy, etc
ep length, concept album - (remember whos' face is on the front) humanity
instrumentals, like mini concertos, like 5 or 6 songs? how many minutes?
max headroom - (demo) no lyrics 5:15
enter darkness - (demo) instrumental 4:37
polyester (started) lyrics
caligula's razor (not started) lyrics
rise (demo) no lyrics *maybe* 5:02
etc
total = 14:44 songs = 3
the first song, max headroom, the music is complete i think, and lyrics half
formed. inspired by the cumming poem plus the precarious concept of
"content" plus... part of an old poem, the ols poem is "fresh bread" i wrote
2007 i think, and the most vile poem about american culture i ever wrote
with a blatantly placed "hidden message", and the message was quite
beautiful (contrast intended) anyway, i lifted that hidden message for
this song, the last section. this will be a spoken word song, i'm not
singing anything till i start writing punk songs.
lyrics almost complete
second song, either called "i wander darkly" or "enter darkness" or ?.
mostly instrumental. play with some language-sound art i guess, a
little poem in the song in the breakdown part (remimder stop with all the
breakdowns, gag is getting old) right righ breakdown fails but maybe with
some vocals to focus on it will take new life, will see.
third song, rise. music complete, no lyrics. and right there most of
my problems with this project. i really have no desire to write
lyrics. i'm burned out on that. i'm getting by on salvaging old
poems, which is ok, but kind of stifling to the creation of new ideas.
i just don't want to write
i may not include this one here, this might go elsewhere, the the storm song
anyway rise will be the end song(or not) i think, positive, uplifting,
uplooking, etc, and strong, the main beat has a swagger... it came to fight.
the beat came to me ina dream when i fell asleep watching afro samurai, i
forget who made that soundtrack, wu tang clan i think. i think its my
best songwriting/arranging so far.
and i think one or two more songs would do, but i don't know what the full
theme is yet
polyester
caligula's razor maybe, not even started.
end of the world (stray dog poem) have music
manmademan ??
what else ?
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