New song lyric: "Assembly of Birds"

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Oh, it's a FLAC this time. Much smaller than a WAV, but it should sound the same.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    gue_barium wrote:
    Change the word "prediction".

    "divination", maybe, for 3 syllables.

    or, for two syllables, maybe,
    "forecast".
    "omen" might even work, but that might change more than a word.

    I was thinking about this, in relation to Eliot's idea of the auditory imagination, but then I am drinking real poteen right now:

    http://jbj.wordherders.net/318/archives/002027.html


    Is the preference of one synonym over another cultural? Is it to do with what vowel sounds or consonants invoke a deep rooted memory? Something Jungian? Take medieval romance poetry: there are lots of hard, cutting consonants there, and those fuckers were always training to cut people's heads off! Seamus Heaney wrote a good essay on this, called "Englands of the Mind", a few years back. Like me, he is an Irishman and a cultural code-switcher. ;)
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    But unlike most of us, he's a writer. :)
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I was thinking about this, in relation to Eliot's idea of the auditory imagination, but then I am drinking real poteen right now:

    http://jbj.wordherders.net/318/archives/002027.html


    Is the preference of one synonym over another cultural? Is it to do with what vowel sounds or consonants invoke a deep rooted memory? Something Jungian? Take medieval romance poetry: there are lots of hard, cutting consonants there, and those fuckers were always training to cut people's heads off! Seamus Heaney wrote a good essay on this, called "Englands of the Mind", a few years back. Like me, he is an Irishman and a cultural code-switcher. ;)

    I think it's a musical thing. Ed's voice dictates his vowel-heavy lyrics, I think. The similar Jim Morrison baritone probably gets away with more for the oorgan-beat time. Lennon and McCartney with the Beatles and after were much wordier than either. Maybe it is a cultural thing.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    But unlike most of us, he's a writer. :)

    Hey man. You are Thee Writer in these parts.
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I was thinking about this, in relation to Eliot's idea of the auditory imagination, but then I am drinking real poteen right now:

    http://jbj.wordherders.net/318/archives/002027.html


    Is the preference of one synonym over another cultural? Is it to do with what vowel sounds or consonants invoke a deep rooted memory? Something Jungian? Take medieval romance poetry: there are lots of hard, cutting consonants there, and those fuckers were always training to cut people's heads off! Seamus Heaney wrote a good essay on this, called "Englands of the Mind", a few years back. Like me, he is an Irishman and a cultural code-switcher. ;)



    Vowels are easier to sing on than consonants because of the shape of the mouth and the way air can move through vowels longer if you want it to. To make a percussive consonant sound, the air has to move quickly and the sound is shorter. Many times consonants are put onto the words at the last moment after the note is done.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I agree with this, but there are some folk singers in this country who write horrible songs with lots of hard alliteration, thinking that makes them poetic. Lots of hard c- sounds in succession: yuck!
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I agree with this, but there are some folk singers in this country who write horrible songs with lots of hard alliteration, thinking that makes them poetic. Lots of hard c- sounds in succession: yuck!

    And then you get Dylan.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I'll try divination, a four-syllabler, rather than first prediction, the first time I do it in front of an audience, mate! :)

    I want royalties. :)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    gue_barium wrote:
    And then you get Dylan.

    Ah, but he does it much better. He doesn't sound like a parish vicar, when he does it. ;)
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=22640722
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=22640722
    I LOVE IT!
    You are so awesome.
    I loved the lyrics....the music totally completes it.
    :)
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    i enjoyed that. twice. it's a good morning song.
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=22640722
    Very good Richard, you play superbly. Where's those cd's?
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Well, the answer to that is that I have now officially booked two days in a studio at the beginning of March, with a proper, industry engineer and producer, who has worked with some names I shouldn't really drop. If a demo is worth doing, it's worth doing properly, whatever comes of it!

    I wasn't quite happy with that version I just did the other day. So I'll do another one right now, and link it! :)
  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Well, the answer to that is that I have now officially booked two days in a studio at the beginning of March, with a proper, industry engineer and producer, who has worked with some names I shouldn't really drop. If a demo is worth doing, it's worth doing properly, whatever comes of it!

    I wasn't quite happy with that version I just did the other day. So I'll do another one right now, and link it! :)
    That is so cool! I am so happy for you.
    You are just really cool. :)
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Here's the new one, with a new, slow intro and sixties fuzztone pedal outro:

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=22752688
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I like the longer version of this! :)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'm thinking of getting a new band together. I want some jazzers, though. People who can think fast, on the fly.
  • Astral Star
    Astral Star Posts: 129
    Tis about time my friend! I think I left a myspace message for you a while back asking where in the fook I can get some of your tunes. Never be ashamed to name drop, ah but then again I do live in LA LA land ;) We offend and admire, google and retire, lift and throw down, but only one rule applies, "There are no rules"!
    "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to eachother." Mother Theresa

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