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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 

Song 58 "Still Love" (I)

I Hope Your God Delivers - Track 6

Remake of song 29—“I still Love Lietuva”.

29 + 29 = 58

I did not plan to release a remake this month. Instead I began with a new idea. I timed myself while recording four different tracks of nonsense singing. There is a name for this type of singing but we might call it Vocal-ease as it freed the singer of the restriction of words and made the flow easier. The four tracks timed out to around 1:11. As an after thought I searched thru memory for a song with words that might fit this kind of timing and ended up with “I still Love Lietuva”. This is when Orson Welles appeared in my kitchen. He brushed me aside and performed the song like a pro. His voice was a little tired but he‘s dead so I smiled and told him how much I had enjoyed his performance. When I overlaid the five tracks I decided to dump Orson and simply go with the wordless tracks. This became “Hoo in Hyan” which I liked but felt was lacking-- so in a different session I went with another round of wordless recording. This brought the total number of tracks to 8 and after working with levels I arrived at a final version of “Hoo in Hyan” which I thought would be the February release. This is when Orson’s attorneys stepped in and demanded I re-insert his vocal track. Not only that I had to reduce the levels of the formerly finished song to accommodate him. You can’t keep some dead men down.

Here is the “Hoo in Hyan” mp3 without Orson’s crumb crisp coating.

((newstereo))

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