the stone forced up by your desire
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there should be 4 songs in there by the time i'm done
my favorite are "goodbye to the dead" and "running up the mountain"... and the "unite the many" song.. i guess i just hate the way i sound in the first song "the stone forced up". bah well.
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please keep in the mind that:
1 - this is a demo, recorded in a living room, not tracked, recorded live off the take
2 - i had a few hours to learn the songs
2.b - i only had 2 takes for each song. sometimes 3.
3 - i am NOT singing in my range. damn you jazz notes, damn you... also because it's poetry, a lot of the words are hard to sing. so many of them to fit in and all...
4 - this demo is going to be used for community centre members in oakland, CA, who can't read music partitions (a lot of them are coming out of jail) to learn the songs and put on a musical. this is the part i'm really happy about. and the lyrics are really inspiring...
all in all, i'm more honored to have been offered this. but which i'd had more time to be really proud of my work.
also, i found out that david, the sax player who wrote the music, used to be married to ntozake shange, who wrote "for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf" as it turns out, she's making a film version of the play to remake the tv-movie version of it (that featured young alfre woodard and lynn whitfield at the time!!) and she wants it to top the "vagina monologues" (bwahahaha). erykah badu and alicia keys are set to star...
there should be 4 songs in there by the time i'm done
my favorite are "goodbye to the dead" and "running up the mountain"... and the "unite the many" song.. i guess i just hate the way i sound in the first song "the stone forced up". bah well.
-
please keep in the mind that:
1 - this is a demo, recorded in a living room, not tracked, recorded live off the take
2 - i had a few hours to learn the songs
2.b - i only had 2 takes for each song. sometimes 3.
3 - i am NOT singing in my range. damn you jazz notes, damn you... also because it's poetry, a lot of the words are hard to sing. so many of them to fit in and all...
4 - this demo is going to be used for community centre members in oakland, CA, who can't read music partitions (a lot of them are coming out of jail) to learn the songs and put on a musical. this is the part i'm really happy about. and the lyrics are really inspiring...
all in all, i'm more honored to have been offered this. but which i'd had more time to be really proud of my work.
also, i found out that david, the sax player who wrote the music, used to be married to ntozake shange, who wrote "for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf" as it turns out, she's making a film version of the play to remake the tv-movie version of it (that featured young alfre woodard and lynn whitfield at the time!!) and she wants it to top the "vagina monologues" (bwahahaha). erykah badu and alicia keys are set to star...