SONG: Up, Up, Up

SONG: “Up, Up, Up.” (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Maori legend of man-eating bird is true”, from The Independent, 14 Sep 09, as used in the post “Behold the roc!”

ABSTRACT: I always wanted a pet roc. And I’m sure my pet roc would want me.

Besides guitar and voice recorded late, late at night, I used a Tweakbench VST instrument called “Padawan” as a keyboard in this, and the marvelously bizarre Delay Lama as a background chorus. The words were hard; I had to keep cutting up what I’d already recorded to fit around them.

But I think it’s OK now. A story. A story.

Entered on 23 September 2009 at 8:45 in the Songs file | 1 Observation | Print Print

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