Music madness

I once was told that the foundation to Our taste in music, is link´d tothose day´s when we were much younger. 

That may well be the reason why My own taste in music belongs to the 50´s - 60´s. I know and recognise that music, and its even easy to tell witch artist was the composer of a song. Even when its performed by an aother artist.

That may well be the reason why all those songs that I´ve written seam to sound the same. They could easilky be recognised as my song´s.



Yesterday a thought popped up in my mind, a subject to write a song about. Less then an hour later the lyrics and music was ready for a first recordning attemt.

Am I a composer? Well in some sense I might call me self that. On the other hand during my life I´ve only  written 4 songs in Swedish! And possibly a thousand songs in English!

The lyrics in my song often tell stories related to a darker world, for someone unknown world of HBTQ, Fetish & people with BDSM as a lifestyle. My intention is to tell their stories in a realistic way, instead of just using four-letter words.

In the recording process I´m forced to use my own talent both in regards of playing isntruments and to add the vocal´s on a recording. This is way to foten a huge problem for me, as I very often tend to write lyrics with a femnale voice in mind, and not a male voice. With that in mind i have to admit that I do love to sing, but as far as I know there may not be that many who enjoys me vocal performance.


Yesterday´s  song was once again written for a female voice, and I dont store such a sweet voice in my collection of instruments. 



Already a year ago I bought an electronic voicegadget. The blue box can perform harmonies, and even transform a male voice to something near to a female voice. Unfortinutly the use of it is not easy at all, I tried at least a hundred times to use it in hope to find something female!



 With this my latest song, it seams that I´m getting closer. There seam to be so much to learn in regards of how to sing, how to formulate each word, and how to make the Blue voice box perform the way I want it to do.



As usual I search among the drumsounds in my two keyboards, and finally when I found a suitible drumpattern I start the recording. The rhytm guitar in this case me Bison guitar, then the bass a Hofner copy thats really nice. Each channel is recorded until finally everything sounds almost like the song I can hear in my head.

"YOU LIED TO ME"

“you lied to me”

Music/lyrics by MJ

20131020

Chorus:

Am          Am       G             G

He, You lied to me, you fucking lied to me.

F                  G             Am       am

You sold me the dream, but you lied to me.

Dm           G             C            Am

You said I´m your Master, but now youre a slave.

F              G             A        A             

You need to be used, said you know to behave.

Verse:

E             E          Am        am

I cant go on this way with a man like you.

F          G            Am          D

Someone that told he need, a slut like me.

E           E           Am       Am

But you´re just a fake, it´s true cant be denied.

F             G             E         E

You can never own a slut me.

I know I am and always be a slut and a slave

In collar n chain for My man to use.

I am the one who need the love and pain He give.

A Master who know to play the blue´s on my back.

Break:

Dm                        Dm                    Am          Am

So pack your things and leave me while you can.

F                   F              Am          Am

Youre not a Master, not my man.

G        G         am       Am

just a fucking lier a fake of a slave

G              F             E         E

You´ll never be, my of man.

New recording of old song

Among hundreds of songs written I have to admit that only a few of them may be called good. Then sometimes a song that I written seam to penetrat my mind. I make new recordings of it in hope to get it better, or perfect.

So there it was, an idea of a song. Heard a song on the radio with a popular Swedish group. It made me wonder, why the hell could their sinple song with three notes be a HIT. So with the use of their three notes and two more I started to write me masterpiece!

Why not make a modern styled tune in the same manner as  Ravel´s - Bolero. 

So after an hour or so I set there with me guitar in hand and a song of no less then ten minutes. A song that was rather sweet and nice in the beguinning and reaching its peak during the 9th minute and ending sweet and soft.

As it seams to get colder everyday, working outside the house with cars can only be done at the afternoons while the sun is shining, so I used late evenings and even the hours before lunch to make yet another recording of this song.

S & M interlude

You can listen to the demo following this link.