Quick murder song demo

Studio Josephine is just about set up although I still have a few problems with midi and understanding. Every new song is a new experiment in figuring out just how everything works. Here is a demo take of a song about murder written and recorded this morning.

Dead Margaret (demo)

Lyrics

The kitchen roll is soaked with blood
The mints on the table filled with stories
Body parts lying everywhere
Shift them now or your glory's almost gone

Margaret was a haunted mess
When that knife went through her wedding dress
Tie her up as your life's at stake
Drive the bag to the back of the lake

Your confidence drove you off the rails
Jump in the car as the siren wails
Wrong way down the motorway
No points for style on your getaway

D and DDD (two new songs)

Acoustic Guitars (Transmissions for Duncan II) (for Duncan Geere)

The next in the series that started with Not Enough Instruments (Transmissions for Duncan I), this song was originally a synth + drum beat + more synth track that was pretty much finished by the time I listened back to it, got bored, picked up an acoustic guitar and started singing and strumming along as a joke. The chords and vocals stuck so I reworked the song and kept them in. The fact that the synth line is made up of my acoustic guitar mapped onto my midi keyboard makes it all a bit ironic.

Lyrics:

An acoustic guitar has nothing going in a place like this
An acoustic guitar has nothing going in a place like this
I try to dream while the synths go round
While my chords melt away and my strumming's drowned
An acoustic guitar has nothing going in a place like this.

Getting kicked for requesting folk in a club
I'm tired of disco, I'm tired of dub
An acoustic guitar has nothing going in a place like this.

And out of the corner of my eye
I see another harmless guy looking bored
At the lack of C Major chord
We know acoustic guitars have nothing going in a place like this

Acoustic guitars have something going in a place like this
Acoustic guitars have something going in a place like this
Acoustic guitars have something going in a place like this
Acoustic guitars have something going in a place like this

Shyness (for the Double Dot Dash collective)

I went to a brilliant gig last night, organised once again by the (brilliant) Double Dot Dash group of musicians and people. This afternoon I was messing about on my sampler and found quite a nice analogue synth setting that I warped beyond recognition by stabbing at a keyboard. I then added a beat, and some samples from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Playstreet (collected recordings 2007 - 2008)

Dream Loop
Happy Birthday Daniel
Hiding
My Favourite Nathan
Supermarket Tentacle Beating Song
Jazz Party Landing
For Josephine (and Will)
I'm Sorry Kathan
Meeting Steve (for Stephen Allum)
Happy Birthday Jenni
Sailors (for Martin Robinson and Jennifer Kendall)
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Unfinished Martin
Tin Can
Spiral

All songs recorded in Studio Josephine between Autumn 2007 and Autumn 2008 after the Three Imaginary Girls EP.

Filip used: Himself, a Casio Px-120 Digital Piano, an MV-8800 Production Studio, Cool Edit Pro 2.0, Adobe Audition 3.0, an Admira Almira full size classical guitar, a PV6 Peavey mixer (farewell Behringer) , a Tascam Porta 02 mkII four track recorder, an SE Electronics Se2200 A condenser microphone, Massive and B4II by Native Instruments, a Romaneto trumpet, a Hohner harmonica, a portable tape recorder I cannot find the name of and lots of cables.

This collection of recordings is dedicated to Maplin Electronics.

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Although these recordings are not really intended for mass public consumption, being odds and sods and personal bits, I do hope you get some enjoyment out of them. Now Studio Josephine is properly set up I hope to record a lot more in the next few months. I am also very interested in doing more remixes. If anyone has anything they'd like me to sample or mix around, please let me know or send it to me.