david hill

moon beams down on Bombay Beach

this is a little bit electro…some big beat…and a dash of breakbeat. I messed quite a bit with drums – ran a signal through a supermarket speaker effectively for the low-fi effect. The synthesizer solo is actually a sampled electricish zap…which I quite liked. There is vinyl being scratched – you know – basic songwriting stuff. I probably got away with too many effects on this… The story is one of beauty and betrayel…shoulda known better, are we gettin down now Download
lyrics below

are we gettin down now

shes sliding into me so tall
whoah no go boom and get boomed tee
she said now baby you can have it all
i say i am into you and trouble free

i said now baby you come hard and tall
sharing moon going good in Bombay toe the line

she said now are we gettin down now
oh be kissin and go chit chitlin love
ahhh are we gettin down town
no i’m a gettin i’m a gettin i’m a gettin goin down

and so we walked along the beach and that was fine
she looked around and said baby you’re mine
she pulled a knife and held it to my neck
give your money she said, and off she went

and as i watched her walking down the beach
should i call her i beseeched no

she said now are we gettin down now
oh be kissin and go chit chitlin love
ahhh are we gettin down town
no i’m a gettin i’m a gettin i’m a gettin goin down (2x)

This song has some points that bear mentioning;

1) it’s the second song I have written with harmonica, and I actually feature it pretty heavily.

2) I made my own glass “slide” for the guitar part – and broke several in the process…I finally ended up dumpster diving a local restaurant for spare wine bottles for the one I used on this song.

3) banjo is provided by Matt and his virtual collaboration is much appreciated. He gave me quite the buffet of good musical options to use in the song!

Fallen is a short tale around paradise lost, and the reality of our current predicament. You can stream / download fallen here Download

lyrics below

Fallen

fallen
my worlds fallen
fallen (2X)

yeah

paradise in the rear view mirror
serpent said don’t you fear
old eve made adam believe the pretty fruit would give good cheer

well they both went and ate it
on the Lord they never waited
yeahhhh this worlds fallen

fallen
our worlds fallen
(2X)

yeah

that was then this now you know
we still got a lot to do
that old devils still trickin folks tryin to make a lie a truth

with the Lord we’ll stand and fight him
Holy Spirit so delighted
Yeahhh
Lets play some harp now….

hamonica solo
banjo solo
out

deserves a new song right? Well – I haven’t worked much with this piano yet – it was tweaked over Christmas by a family member, and is tuned, at the very least, somewhat to itself. It is from Holland originally, and is quite old – will say more as I find out more….Yesterday I was working on cleaning out the fireplace – and I sat down and played this cascading melody…and then decided to go downstairs and see how “ïn tune” it was with my studio, then I wrote this song…took about 30 minutes – and I decided to share it with you – I am actually working on another tune with ambitious, yet to be announced plans – but this will have to do for now you said

it was fun to watch a Wednesday go by without putting a wallop up. Some of you are wondering where SKIA / Pull is, well – I put it up – and unless you were here within an hour (via RSS or something) I took it down. It’s just too much for right now (it really is melt your speakers aggressive) – plus – I wanted to go a wed without publishing anything – you know – just to see what it’s like. Plus – I already have been working on the next song I will be putting up… I think…I actually have the lyrics this morning for another song which might be cool…we’ll see – gotta check with my label – they’re saying moneys tight – and Lady GAGA is the bomb.