This is the second half of the sound art/found sound/audio collage/IDM/experimental electronica piece that began with the track preceding this, and it contains a few different a capellas by Derek, two of which are Björk covers, the first one of "Pneumonia" off of her 2007 album Volta, and the other one is of "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)" off of her 2004 all-vocal album Medúlla. Also there are portions of Derek's lyrics that were inspired by Amber Scanlan's lyrics and wild, melismatic, autotuned wailing in my song "Ain't No Love in THIS Club (feat. Amber Scanlan and Derek Piotr)" from 2008. The piano in this piece is the same slightly-out-of-tune piano in one of the practice rooms on the fourth floor of Durgin Hall on South Campus at UMass Lowell that was in the first half of this piece. This piece also features me speaking and having a phone conversation with Donna Ames, my voice lessons teacher at UMass Lowell.
lyrics
Derek Piotr: It, pains me. (breathing) You don't know...
me...
Reuben Walton: (sniffs)
Reuben Walton: But I don't.
DP: But I can, taste, you. This will, change, us, forever... Unless you, b-breathe in, bravely, oh...and your lungs, they're mourning, tipi-style, all the, stillborn, love, that a-could've happened, all the moments you should have embraced, all the moments you should have not locked up. Understand...
RW: I was that one.
DP: ...so clearly...a weed was not he was Harold vashnahellit...inadnelluhenenadnuhnuhnuhnuhoh...
RW: About to say...(sniffs) And they understand it's a kind of a sign...with a...squirrel...my old boring...shall be...And the glory, the glory of the Lord, shall be re--it was like to know your part. That's what I meant, like, he was just being a cunt, like...some, some, some, on, me and LeAnne, looking at us, ace.
DP: As I will, as I did today with a new-found blessing of regret, blessing of regret, blessing of regret for what I have tried to do, blessing of regret for what I have tried, to, do, with the admire sing oh poppy day on the planet deep impressions in their... mind, but I woke up, up, up, up, up, up, up, but I woke up above, they're all little swallow little things that tried to sit on the arching sore, somewhere, somewhere, some w-where, where? Oh, where, oh, where, oh, where? Somewhere in history, but none of, that, none are, secure, none are, permanent, none scar those minds in the pedantic rhythms are just lies, they burst forward into life. But none are secure, none scar the mind, they are all pedantic versus to lie. Um, ahmmm. (4x)
RW: (sniffs)
DP: Got inside it, to a valley, conmedenvitur, ah ah ahminturnaya, oh ah, parsundevadey, conmeder, ohan, ay, ohann, ay, ohann, ay, ohann, there is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior, there is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior, tonsolder, convester, onvesterladumichtur, unvestur othenvachter, onfadervadendandandandanodanvadur, onvade, onvadeayturvadur, oh ahohay...(vocalizing) There is a bear on my shirt, so I must be a warrior, there is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior...(vocalizing) There is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior, there is a bear on, my shirt so I must be a warrior. Look at the sky, look at the ground, look at the bear on your shirt, look at what you have found, look at what you have found, look at what you have found-ound, look at what you have found, there is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior, there is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior. With the commence of the preachers, I step, I step, ow. With the common sense of all the ancestors, I dance, I dance. (vocalizing) There is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior, there is a bear on my shirt so I must be a warrior-r-r-r-r-r-r-r. Who is it, that never lets you down? Who is it, that gave you back your crown, and the ornaments are, they're goin' around, now they're handin' it over, handin' it over, handin' it over. Who is it, that never let you down? Who is this, that gave you back your crown, and the ornaments are, they're goin' around, now they're handin' it over, handin' it over, handin' it over, over, over, over, over, over, over, over, over, over, over, over, he demands, a closeness, we all have earned, a likeness carry my joy on the left, c-carry my pain on the right, if you ask yourself, patiently, and carefully, who is it, who is it, that never let you down? Call it off, it's five o'clock A.M. yeah hey, yeah. Call it off, it's five o'clock A.M. and I'm eating, sesame, oil. Call it off, it's five o'clock A.M. I love you. You. You. You. It's a love that, it nurtures itself. It's a love that, it arrests itself.
RW: That's C-flat, that's A, C3, and that's right there, at the start of the Hampshire house flat.
DP: I return the key, I turn the key, yeah. Danger, look out! Danger, look out! Out! Out! Oh, uhh. Danger look out! Danger look-ook out! Out! Out! Oh, o-o-o, uhh, call it off, it's five o'clock A.M. and I'm eating, sesame, oil. Danger look out! Danger look out! Out! Out! Call it off, it's five o'clock A.M., yeah hey, yeah. Call it off, it's five o'clock A.M., yeah hey, yeah. Oh, uhh.
RW: Hi! Hi, this is Reuben, Um... Good, how are you? Um, I just looked in the agenda and there is school on Mon-Monday.
DP: Ohh--o-o-o.
RW: I'm free from 9:50, let me just get out my schedule right here, it's right here in my pocket. Um, I'm free-e from 9:50 a.m. to... 12:30 p.m. And then I'm free un...
Donna Ames: Would you mind e-mailing me?
RW: Y-yeah, I'll e-mail you my availability.
DA: At Donna--Donna--Donna Ames@verizon.net.
RW: Alright, just Donna Ames, no underscore, no s--n-no...anything?
DA: No, just DonnaAmes@verizon.net.
RW: Alright, thank you, I will.
DA: Okay!
RW: Alright.
DA: How was class today? Did you have a test?
RW: I had Applied Voice, yeah, the--I actually did miss the quiz, because I missed the bus, the bus that left at 7:30 would've gotten me there one time, but there was one that left at like 7:50, or 7:55, but, overall it was good.
DA: Alright! You have a good day!
RW: Alright, bye.
DA: Alright, bye.
credits
from Odds and Ends,
released August 13, 2012
Vocals by Reuben Walton, Derek Crofut and Donna Ames
Lyrics written by Reuben Walton, Derek Crofut, Donna Ames, Björk Guðmundsdóttir and Charles Jennens
Melody composed by Reuben Walton, Derek Crofut, Donna Ames, Björk Guðmundsdóttir and George Frideric Handel
Piano by Reuben Walton
Produced by Reuben Walton
Recorded by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Mixed by Reuben Walton
Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in
Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
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