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slumbering

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Description
A seasonal song, for Halloween, El día de los Muertos, or anytime during Autumn. To remember and celebrate our departed loved ones.
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Lyrics
October, October
Warmer and colder
Summer is over
But she'll keep the Sun
In her big, black cauldron
Tis the season
For death and the night
So say the spell
Make the ghosts tell

Circle the stones
Dance with the bones
Follow the shadows
On All Hallow's Eve
Happily we grieve
Drink to the Dead
In October

When the Sun has just gone down
It is time
To sing the rhyme
Bring them out

Orange glowing embers light our way to November

Waltz through the stones (Through the stones)
Dance with the bones (With the bones)
Death is romancing (It's romance!)
A nightmare perchancing (Spin...)
Spin like the leaves (...like the leaves)
Drink to our friends
Who met their ends

When the Moon glows in the sky
Do they fly?
In the sky...

Circle the stones (Circle the stones)
Dance with the bones (Dance with the bones)
Take Death's hand (Take his hand)
To Underland (Underland)
Raise up a glass (First do no harm)
To souls who have passed (Now work the charm)
Drink to the Dead (Make a toast)
Drink to the Dead (To the ghost)
In October, in October

Ooh, October...

Copyright © 2004 slumbering
Song Stats
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Comments: 22
Fans: 20
Plays: 85
Downloads: 91
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Uploaded: Mar 03, 2007 - 05:31:42 PM
Last Updated: Mar 05, 2007 - 11:56:05 PM Last Played: Nov 09, 2009 - 10:07:59 PM
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Hardware:
Computer: PowerBook G4 Ti 800Mhz 512
Keyboard: Yamaha PSR-273
Microphone: Shure SM57
Software:
GarageBand 1
Comments
drakonis said 996 days ago (March 3rd, 2007)
reposted...
Oops, you reposted this and deleted the old one... so I have re-faved this new one... doesn't sound like you changed it? As I said in the prior comment, I really like your Danny Elfman-esque style here, sounds like it's right out of "Nightmare before Christmas". Nice lyrics & singing. And is that your artwork? A very talented lady!
ttfn,
Drakonis
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slumbering said 996 days ago (March 4th, 2007)
Yes, it's the same one :)
I got all confused about the creative commons thing and when i did a search, realized i couldn't change it but must delete then replace it... sorry about that, i'm kind of embarrassed.

Thank you for still thinking of it, though :) And thanks for re-faving it, heh.

Yeah, i drew the icon for the song, it was fun. I like doing that kind of stuff.

:D



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Alannah said 996 days ago (March 3rd, 2007)
Are you really ....
Kate Bush ???? I liked the whispery quality of this .... a refreshing uniqueness to your style. My only nit ... is there were a couple of spots where it sounded like a pop screen might have been in order .... felt the whoosh and boom! Nice job on all the vocal layerings.
slumbering said 996 days ago (March 4th, 2007)
Thanks :)
Heh, if you mention Kate Bush it just goes to my head, i love her!

And you have good ears - i've been talked to about pop filters, and i finally got one last year, well, only a few months ago! Woo!

But i recorded this song a couple of years ago and didn't have a pop filter then. I've never changed any original recording of the song, but i have altered some of the settings (especially the drums) and i've clipped out some of the vocals.

Thank you for your feedback :)


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DOCTORBIZARRE said 995 days ago (March 4th, 2007)
YEOWZA LOUISE!
Wow this is dreamy and mystical! I love it! I could get high to this! Really really nice!
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slumbering said 995 days ago (March 5th, 2007)
:D
Lol, that's cool! I'm glad the song brings you enjoyment. Thanks for the post. :)

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rainfice said 993 days ago (March 7th, 2007)
i've checked out everything you have to offer here
and i'm quite pleased with my findings. very original stuff. i like the innocent darkness.
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slumbering said 991 days ago (March 8th, 2007)
Thank you, rainfice :)
I went over and listened to some of your songs, too, and had similar feelings about your music, i found it very original and pleasing.

Thanks for giving mine a listen.

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moorlandt said 984 days ago (March 16th, 2007)
absolutely stunning...
bang! i was completely enchanted by the first piano notes/chords, but the piece gets better and better with every measure. i'm so glad i was lead to your music by an other mj-er. absolute magic...

- walter
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slumbering said 980 days ago (March 20th, 2007)
It seems
that the appreciation is mutual. I've been listening to your songs and have become mesmerized. I am so glad to have found your music. Thank you. :)

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michael2 said 957 days ago (April 12th, 2007)
another nice piece of music
really like this one: opening chords are beautiful an draw you right in, vocal melody is light and airy but solid (like the off kilter backup harmonies). really nice use of percussion too, very subtle. what is that sound? i really like your stuff a bunch; i can appreciate the focus on feeling as opposed to technique. great job.
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Scott Carmichael said 956 days ago (April 13th, 2007)
your voice is soooo
interesting and compelling... the subtle harmonies that you introduce are great... etherial and mysterious indeed... melodies that haunt again... I love Kate Bush... I'm thinking you have some of her influence...

production is about the choices that we make in the process... I have one small nit-pick.. I love the chord changes along with the vocal... I think this carries the song... I would remove the drums... they are wooden and anchored in time... while the song floats and drifts in and out of reality... I would want the marimaba-like percussions to be wet and behind the whole sound scape... that's just me...

I think that your voice is the star here, and I would want to frame it as such

I still love it
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HOKEY POKEY said 953 days ago (April 15th, 2007)
Drink to this Music - A Toast
Just Fabulous! I wallow in the textures. Wonderful music as always, it is complicated and well thought out.

Hokey
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Three Cat Clem said 934 days ago (May 4th, 2007)
Nice...
Beautiful voice.
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Boris the Bull said 900 days ago (June 8th, 2007)
thoughts from the bull...
one of my absolute most favorite songs i've come across. i've known this piece for as long as i've been posting music online. it holds very special meaning for me, as you know, slumbs. i'm always so happy when this one creeps up on my playlist, unexpectedly... usually while i'm doing the dishes. i always stop what i'm doing and just fall into it.

thank you for this one! great great stuff!
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Epileptic Gibbon said 891 days ago (June 17th, 2007)
Beautiful!
Can I play this on my podcast show? I must go and check out your other tracks now.
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slumbering said 888 days ago (June 20th, 2007)
Thank you, Epileptic Gibbon
I'd be honored :) When is your podcast and what's it called?

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Epileptic Gibbon said 878 days ago (June 30th, 2007)
My podcast
My podcast comes out about once a month (so far) and shows stay up for a while (until I run out of storage space). It's called the Epileptic Gibbon Podcast Music show. Imaginative title, huh?!

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Schello said 776 days ago (October 10th, 2007)
;-)
You are a Genius!
I cannot to hear this musik, remember me a grupu i lioved


Myself
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Peter Bauckham said 448 days ago (September 2nd, 2008)
Ah another
lovely song I seem to have missed - I too can hear the Kate Bush vibe that runs through this - very nice! The arrangement is amazing.

Peter
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ramonaji said 181 days ago (May 26th, 2009)
I think you're Kate Bush also!
Alannah has called you out! Glad to hear you, Kate! Great stuff you're doing here, as you always do!
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LunaTrick said 178 days ago (May 29th, 2009)
As far as this site goes...
You are so very original and stylistically interesting... The delivery here is matched by your gothic (and I use that word in the old sense) vocals. What a wonderful song!
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