◄4► my savage careful farewell

1 week ago by @burrMod

◄4► my savage careful farewell

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Liner Notes

i'm blowing out the cobwebs by catching up on projects my overloaded 2024 self wasn't able to follow through on last 50/90 challenge.

🚨 weird alert 🚨

i had an ambitious idea to do a #CommentsFirst #Cassette #4Track #Feast so i posted not one but FOUR #Titular titles and let people go nuts.

then, once the prompts came in... i sort of saw a narrative emerge and decided to try a mini "concept EP" that tells a story, on top of the cassette and comment constraints. why? because i'm a glutton for punishment.

this ended up being very ambitious and, while fun, results were mixed. i don't think i'll try this combo of constraints again! 😅 i kinda had to "cheat" from time to time either pre-sequencing some parts in a DAW or playing VST instruments and then routing the audio to the deck, since i don't have (or even know how to play) some of the instruments i was prompted to use.

original comment prompts from last summer:


the tracks & instruments:
T1 ► boss dr-660 drum machine
T2 ► mircobrute synth bass
T3 ► guitar / toy piano VST
T4 ► vocals / clarinet VST

all the songs are:
1 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/309129
2 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/309130
3 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/309131
4 ◉ THIS!

Lyrics

==== MOAR NOTES ====
this is FOURTH in the series. in which the narrator realizes the connection with his new friend and travel companion is fleeting.

for the "progressively booming reverb" i doubled the snare while mixing and put a reverb on that that gradually gets louder and with a longer tail over the course of the song. by the bridge/breakdown you can hear it echo til the end of the song in the left ear if you listen carefully. the goldfish thing was too hard to make sense, so the outro rhythm is an encoded message in morse code (this week's challenge) about goldfish. see if you can figure it out...

of the four, i think this is the weakest final result, tbh. i was pretty tired by the end. but there is still a lot of cool stuff in there!

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i don’t even know where to start
hope humming in my hesitating heart
warmth wanes and words withheld
is this where it all comes apart?
this is what we expected
this is a game of give and take
a whole world erected
just to wash away when we wake

was it all a dream?
the wind picks up
everything shifts (yeah)
delusions dissolve
and drift (away…)

feeling the feeling of being left behind
losing something that was never mine
love a life, then let it go
they say that this is the grand design
i shiver despite the heat
the bone dry bedrock breaks up
maybe i’ll be back on my feet
tomorrow when i wake up

was it all a dream?
was it all a dream?
the wind picks up
everything shifts (yeah)
delusions dissolve
and drift (away…)

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