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Words by fuzz face - I am guilty of all the rest.

Bit of bouzouki and all sorts of stuff.

This is something I have been playing with for a while.

Thanks for the listen. This is the first thing I am posting from my trailer summer home. everything is in place except the summer.

Best wishes to all

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Leigh

Lovely melody. Nice and haunting. It does sound a bit disjointed at spots, but it could stand on it's own as is.
Nice to see you back. Permanently, I hope.

Diggin' this. I like the mood, and the space. Cool lyrics too. Dylan meets Pink Floyd.

I really like this tracks open-ness. Everything is fit in just right. All played well too. Overall mix could use some high end, maybe. Just my ears.

Nice.
Thanks!
Matty

Sounds like you Leigh. Familiar too, have you posted this before in another demo form?

Welcome back, again.

Pete

I like the shadowy, drunken, house of mirrors feel, and the vocals are effectively dark, even though I can't understand most of the words. "I'll turn my back/On this Cadillac?" Probably not, but that's what I'm hearing. You seem to have two (or more) vocal tracks, panned wide. I suspect that the mix would work better if you picked one and put it prominently in the middle. I'd probably do a lot of fussing with the volume levels of various parts if I were mixing, but then it might loose the eeriness that makes it work. Scratch all that, leave it the way it is.

Nice to see you back Leigh and in fine form:)

Uniquely you. The music has a rather ethereal quality that is a little disturbing but the instrumentation is very interesting.

I like the acoustic instruments and how the voice is used like an instrument as much as being a way to convey words.

Cheers

Dick

I'm sorry to say this mix annoyed me. At first I don't hear anything then I hear something after 10 seconds.
I like the 1:05 but again the sound buggs me, too much low end, and too much high on the guit and one vocal that sometimes jumps in front out of nowhere.

It reminds me manouche style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3E2HeAfcdM) but the mix hides the song.

That is the Leigh sound in a nutshell. Lovely lryics. Who is fuzzy face?

gwood: I think the lyric is "I turn my back on this cabaret," which is a cool line.

The music has that familiar Gu-djin disjointed cabaret sound.

I like it.

"The clown you know is gone." Splendid.

Good to see you're back Leigh, I'd wondered how you were doing all this time.....Sounds like your "signature" sound to me!!! I wanna know who "Fuzz Face" is too!!!

Welcome back, Leigh.

Cracks: "The music has that familiar Gu-djin disjointed cabaret sound."

Exactly. You have a very identifiable sound that has been missing around here.

But.....the vocals are unruly; they're not in synch, which obviously was purposeful, but they're TOOOOOOO out of synch for my liking. Also, it sounds like the guitars have no mid-range. If you could balance out the guitars and tighten the vocals, this could be a Gu djin classic

Seemingly Brecht/Weil in atmosphere but that's to pigeon hole this recording which would not do justice to its personality and the 'Gu-djin - ness' of its style. This is the third time I've listened, I didn't have anything worthwhile to contribute before - it was too 'out there' for me.

Maybe I've just got more used to it but the chorus is anchoring the song in a more traditional format (I'm stuck circa 1974-1978). There is a harmony between lyrical content and the tune and it creates a congruous whole, right down to the ending which leaves us without a resolve into the key.

I kept thinking of Paris in the mist/fog whilst listening; I do tend to picture things. Good work Leigh, hope the weather starts to match your holiday home!

Wow - thanks all for the listens and comments.

Where do I start?

Fuzzface is a contributor to another forum I visit. He wrote a series of "Lyrics" based on Picasso's life.
And asked for a different song to be be done by different people as a sort of challenge - to end up with a rock opera.

I took on theses lyrics as they seemed to have been left on the shelf. More theatrical than rock.

It was a real challenge fro me to get something together as I had throat problems . - And never being the most confident singer. Still I ploughed on and ended up with this.

The mix is out of kilter because that is how I saw it within the scheme of the song. A change in the character but somewhat reluctant to let the old go. Hence the two contrasting vocals. Worth arty I thought. And there is no guitar on this piece - all the strumming etc.. Is bouzouki, so the sound does lack in the mids a little. Once against it is a try to to get away from the norm.

It was fun putting it together. And thanks all for the comments. I am intending to redo this completely before long.

John: Thanks so much. I reckon if you had had less on on I would have asked you to do do the docs. Maybe another time. Cheers

matty: Thanks so much for the nice comments. Much appreciated. Always trust your ears. They are usually right

Thanks for the Listen Pete. You are right of course.

gwood: Hi Gary. nice to hear from you. I can't add much to what I said in the preamble.. I still laugh at you "turtle perhaps" I will try to put the lyrics up. but As I did not write them an they are out of context if read on their own I ..... Well you know what I mean.

dickl: Cheers dick - so happy you can see this for what it is. A gudjinism

1manband: Cheers - In the context of what I was trying to achieve - I can understand why you found this annoying - I will later this year redo this completely and use an acoustic guitar for the accompaniment as opposed to the bouzouki in this version.

Hi Sean. thanks for finding the time for a listen. I think I covered fuzzface in the preamble.

Thanks James: hope things are going well with you too. Fuzzface? I think I covered that in the preamble. I anyone is interested I can give further details. Cheers.

Topo: I appreciate the listen and here what you are are saying about the vocals. It was an effect I tried before I realised I liked it better than the "rockier version I did. Thanks for taking the time.

Wow again- I think that has about covered it and just one great big thanks to all. And the Zoatrope. I know he is still out there somewhere.

Thanks to all
Leigh for but maybe overdid the "differences". I suppose I was after a more theatrical performance but got a little carried away.

Polly: You are close in your simile (sic). And I also found I had to listen to this version several times

Hi Leigh,
Nice guitar work. And I like the Shakespearean theme.
The left/right split double take of the vocal is very nice.
Lovely ending. Super song.
Ferret