About the lyrics... (I)
Speaking for myself, something curious went on during the last year or so. Before, I was not a writer even for verse (althought many years ago I wrote some stupid lyrics to my former bands). I'm not into poetry and the books I"ve been reading in the last 7 years are only techically-oriented (I have a post-degree in Law and accomplished to be Lawyer). This is the first difficulty I found to become a writer.
The other was something I do not wish for anybody: the companion (?) of someone that, among other abuses, forced me "into the armour". I went so deeply closed into myself, I was unable to speak (nor write) a thing about any feeling, concern, whatever that would express anything than concrete awarenesses. That was my world then...
So, something happened. Overnight I was set free from this "presence" and, after some time..I found myself simply writing down what I was experiencing. The good and bad. I went outside the shell and truly started to put my ideas on paper.
The catharsis I described above is the theme for the song "Distance and Silence". Course I won't name her, but I definetely made it for the girl that turned my life into living hell for years of a stillborn relationship. Some people really seem to have a great time takin' you for a fool, and that was the case. So, one afternoon I began to remember what happened and...voìlá, here's the spell...
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Distance and Silence
Down and low, livin' on denial
No good for lovin', I just didn't know
Concealed in care, let me unaware
These days in trouble I cannot forget
I asked myself "what you did that for?"
You were so cold, my mind went torn
Then when I realized u can't feel what is love
I got the answer, could take it no more!
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
I left with nothin' but regrets to mesmerize
Kept nothin' good by livin' by your side
Spare me your false, there's nothin' more to hide
Good times roll as you are left behind
Growin' confident as I escape mourning hall
I stick to my beliefs - they never let me down
Seekin' serenity my sweat soaks the ground
I earn my life back, I will rise from fall
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
Even you understand my hasty hard words
"Never come back, nor talk to me anymore"
Leave me alone, once and for all
Distance and silence - all I want from you!
No more I would move backwards
Not again I would take your complaints
Not once I've warned you
No way I'll give another chance!
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So bitter, one could say...Yeah, but also hopeful. The statement is clear... the evil made will not be back again. Once you cut it's roots, everything is okay. And in the meanwhile, some thinking about itself is helpful to bring life back on its rails.
Good times rolled as she was left behind :)
That's all, for now. Today we go rehearsing again...
My loudest cheers to you!
L.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Salve!
As trilhas-guia estão prontas. O Thiago pôs voz nelas na sexta. Uma música ainda está sem letra, mas logo logo a gente arruma isso. Entre um bauru e outro, escutando um velho disco de piadas do Costinha, as músicas começam a tomar forma.
No sábado, ensaio. Um dia chuvoso e cinza (como tem sido toda a semana), um monte de dor nas costas (achei que tinha estourado o nervo ciático, por conta do excesso de treino de karate e musculação:( ), sem almoço (gravamos na sexta até as 2 da manhã e eu só dormi depois das 3, acordei tarde pra fazer o serviço doméstico...) e as reclamações do cursinho que funciona do lado do nosso estúdio...qualquer um poderia imaginar que estaria um baixo astral. Que nada! Tocamos com tudo, dando o sangue, e as músicas estão realmente muito próximas do seu formato final. Potentes, cheias de balanço,melódicas, sensíveis...bom, eu estou orgulhoso de cada uma.
No fim do ensaio, sentamos e discutimos alguns detalhes a respeito da gravação em si. A nossa agenda marca o começo das sessões de gravação pro meio de dezembro, e o trabalho concluído até fevereiro. Vai ser barbada alcançar essas metas, graças ao planejamento feito.
E discutimos alguns esboços para a parte de produção artística e técnica, a respeito da sonoridade ideal que queremos ter em estúdio e como conseguir isso.
Algo bom mesmo vem por aí. Esperem e verão.
Abração!
L.
PS: A partir de agora, os posts serão bilingues. Facilita, não? ;)
As trilhas-guia estão prontas. O Thiago pôs voz nelas na sexta. Uma música ainda está sem letra, mas logo logo a gente arruma isso. Entre um bauru e outro, escutando um velho disco de piadas do Costinha, as músicas começam a tomar forma.
No sábado, ensaio. Um dia chuvoso e cinza (como tem sido toda a semana), um monte de dor nas costas (achei que tinha estourado o nervo ciático, por conta do excesso de treino de karate e musculação:( ), sem almoço (gravamos na sexta até as 2 da manhã e eu só dormi depois das 3, acordei tarde pra fazer o serviço doméstico...) e as reclamações do cursinho que funciona do lado do nosso estúdio...qualquer um poderia imaginar que estaria um baixo astral. Que nada! Tocamos com tudo, dando o sangue, e as músicas estão realmente muito próximas do seu formato final. Potentes, cheias de balanço,melódicas, sensíveis...bom, eu estou orgulhoso de cada uma.
No fim do ensaio, sentamos e discutimos alguns detalhes a respeito da gravação em si. A nossa agenda marca o começo das sessões de gravação pro meio de dezembro, e o trabalho concluído até fevereiro. Vai ser barbada alcançar essas metas, graças ao planejamento feito.
E discutimos alguns esboços para a parte de produção artística e técnica, a respeito da sonoridade ideal que queremos ter em estúdio e como conseguir isso.
Algo bom mesmo vem por aí. Esperem e verão.
Abração!
L.
PS: A partir de agora, os posts serão bilingues. Facilita, não? ;)
Hi there!
Base tracks are go. Thiago voiced them last friday. One song lasts without lyrics yet, but soon we'll fix it. Between cheeseburgers and comedy records, the songs start to have a shape.
Saturday, rehearsals. Gray and rainy day (as was all week long), lots of pain on my back (I even thought I screwed my sciatic nerve due to karate and bodybuilding overtraining), no lunch (we did recording til' 2 pm and I fell asleep past three, woke up late to do housekeeping) and the complaints from the school next door to our studio...one shoud think the mood would be awful. No way. We played hard, we played our guts out and the songs are much too close to their final shape. Powerful, groovy, melodic, sensitive...well, I feel proud of everyone of them.
At the rehearsal's end, we sit down to discuss some details concerning to the recording itself. The schedule points the beginning of sessions to mid december, and the work done till february. It will be easy to accomplish the goals, due to proper planning. And we discussed some sketches for the artistic / technical production, regarding the ideal sound we want to have on studio and what we shall do to get it.
Something great comes. Wait and see.
Loud cheers!
L.
PS: From now on, the posts will go bilingual, so the english-speaker doesn't need to find odd.
Base tracks are go. Thiago voiced them last friday. One song lasts without lyrics yet, but soon we'll fix it. Between cheeseburgers and comedy records, the songs start to have a shape.
Saturday, rehearsals. Gray and rainy day (as was all week long), lots of pain on my back (I even thought I screwed my sciatic nerve due to karate and bodybuilding overtraining), no lunch (we did recording til' 2 pm and I fell asleep past three, woke up late to do housekeeping) and the complaints from the school next door to our studio...one shoud think the mood would be awful. No way. We played hard, we played our guts out and the songs are much too close to their final shape. Powerful, groovy, melodic, sensitive...well, I feel proud of everyone of them.
At the rehearsal's end, we sit down to discuss some details concerning to the recording itself. The schedule points the beginning of sessions to mid december, and the work done till february. It will be easy to accomplish the goals, due to proper planning. And we discussed some sketches for the artistic / technical production, regarding the ideal sound we want to have on studio and what we shall do to get it.
Something great comes. Wait and see.
Loud cheers!
L.
PS: From now on, the posts will go bilingual, so the english-speaker doesn't need to find odd.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Hi you there!
Tonight we'll be putting on the record the base tracks (guide tracks) for the songs we made. This is the third step on producing, after composing and arranging the tunes. Bass, guitar and voice tracks will be put along a click (metronome), to provide the basic ideas for arranging & engineering the drum tracks. Then, finally, this gtr/b/v tracks will do the job in order to have the foundations needed to record the drum tracks that will go on the album. So, fingers crossed, it's time to build the house. Hope everything goes ok from tonight.
Loud cheers!
L.
Tonight we'll be putting on the record the base tracks (guide tracks) for the songs we made. This is the third step on producing, after composing and arranging the tunes. Bass, guitar and voice tracks will be put along a click (metronome), to provide the basic ideas for arranging & engineering the drum tracks. Then, finally, this gtr/b/v tracks will do the job in order to have the foundations needed to record the drum tracks that will go on the album. So, fingers crossed, it's time to build the house. Hope everything goes ok from tonight.
Loud cheers!
L.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Hi you there!
Yesterday was a productive day. We four were in a great mood to compose. Setting up the things and starting to play and write by half past eight, we achieved to make a new song called "Touch" in exactly one hour. Despite the core idea to the guitar line was made in another time, we basicly laid down a brand new song around it. Meanwhile the chords and melodies were being put together, lyrics were being written, inspired by the rainy week we had (water is falling constantly since monday, we are turning into frogs!) and some sort of feelings on missing somebody.
ASAP we will launch this tune's teaser on MySpace.
Enjoy your weekend, and love loudly ;)
Cheers!
L.
Yesterday was a productive day. We four were in a great mood to compose. Setting up the things and starting to play and write by half past eight, we achieved to make a new song called "Touch" in exactly one hour. Despite the core idea to the guitar line was made in another time, we basicly laid down a brand new song around it. Meanwhile the chords and melodies were being put together, lyrics were being written, inspired by the rainy week we had (water is falling constantly since monday, we are turning into frogs!) and some sort of feelings on missing somebody.
ASAP we will launch this tune's teaser on MySpace.
Enjoy your weekend, and love loudly ;)
Cheers!
L.
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