…and onto the sheet of paper and then onto a CD. I have been planning on putting my current music onto a CD for the first time. I had recorded as a studio musician before and did alright ($500 per session…no residuals, just the flat fee. I did it several times) I feel the time is right for me to actually put my songs into the audio format and try to get them out into the public.
Reading the thread about that Eminem person (hadn’t heard of him until then) made me start thinking. If he can make money trashing people then I should be able to make money singing bittersweet lovesongs.
The music itself sounds like an odd mixture of Renaissance and folk with some jazz harmony. The vocal parts have harmony that is fairly simple and pleasing to the modern audience, I have basslines in my head but have been too lazy to write them out, I have bongo/conga rhythms thought out, and even a woodwind track thrown in for some variation. (I have been teasing my bf about getting him to play the didjeridoo on it. Incidently, I can play one but not very well. I had a friend in college who owned one and taught me what he knew.) If I do the didjeridoo part it would take over the conga/bongo section and perhaps the woodwind since the didjeridoo functions as a percussion instrument even though it is played as a brass instrument.
I am not sure of Robert Louis Stevenson’s dates, but I made one of his poems into a song called “The Dumb Soldier.” That I think of as a lullabye. His is the only song that I didn’t write myself.
One of the songs that I am particularly proud of is “Heartache’s Pleasure.” Unfortunately I have not been more creative with titles. This one has a nonsense syllable chorus which I will not insert.
Heartache’s Pleasure By: Me J.E. Williams aka SqrlCub
If loving comes for heartache’s pleasure
A goddess of distraught
Then in my youth, I will not love
Eventhough I ought.
But if the joys of passion are unfulfilled
And nothing did I give
When my life is done, I discover
Never did I live.
In spite of Heartache and all her ilk
I fall in love in kind.
I thumb my nose because I’m in love
For the end of time.
Though heartache’s pains are so vast
Love will always win.
No greater wrong to never love.
Without love all is sin.
If loving comes for heartache’s pleasure
A goddess of distraught
Then in my youth, I will not love
Eventhough I ought.
You have to hear it to appreciate the music. I would love to hear everyone’s comments on it. Also, when it finally gets produced I will let everyone know. (I need to get more money to actually get it done or a benefactor of some kind. Any ideas on how I could go about doing that would be greatly appreciated also.)
HUGS!
Sqrl