Tea With Warriors

Hello, and welcome back!

I have lots to write, but that will have to wait for another time. In the meantime, here are a couple tracks I've made in the last few months. Both of them were for contests at Indaba.com. 

The first is a song which was aiming to be placed in a TV show called "Bar Karma", set in the year 2058. The instructions were to write a song that would be playing in a bar in 2058 when the U.S. is under a dictatorship. I chose to go the route a harmless bubblegum-sounding song with hidden revolutionary meaning in the lyrics, which would slip by the censorship computers. It's called "Empower the Resistors". I was pretty proud of myself, since it may be the fastest I've gone from writing a song to having the finished recording-  less than 7 days. 

The second track is for a Paul Simon remix contest, and is my take on his new song, "Love is Eternal Sacred Light".  Like many creative projects, this grew out of trying out some new software, in this case the Studio One DAW I downloaded recently. I threw the vocal track in, and picked a drum loop almost randomly and they fit pretty well, in a way that inspired me. So I just fixed the timing of the vocal to match the beat, and wrote some chords on the guitar and synth to go with it. At this time, I still haven't listened to more than a few seconds of the original. I've only heard the vocal track in its entirety. I hope that someday I am driving to/from work, listening to WYEP, and I will hear the original version, and have a surreal experience like, "Hey, there's a remix of my remix of the Paul Simon song!".