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Song 2 sees me tackle the Week 1 Challenge ("food")... well, see for yourself!

Recorded, initially, into Apple's new Music Memos app on my iPad, using the Line6 Sonic Port VX. I played the rhythm ukulele part (on my Makala Waterman, "Caspar" - the one in my profile pic) into MM, which then built the bass and drums tracks automatically around it. These were then fed into Garageband (again, iPad), where I recorded the other uke track, the acoustic (Faith Saturn) and electric (Ministar Testar) guitars and the vocal.

I've tried to rescue some pretty sloppy playing and singing in the mix in Logic, but ultimately I'd take this one as it comes :-)

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[Verse 1]
Not meant to watch the clock
This food fan is taking stock
Now sushi is my jam
I conserve patience wherever I can
For this desk gourmet
My favourite hour of the day...

[Chorus 1]
With my bento box, it’s off I trot
To lunchtime
Keep those eyes off my fish and rice
It’s all mine
Like Gollum with his “Precious”
I’ll guard this most delicious hoard
So jealously - begone
It’s all for me!

[verse 2]
Twenty-four hours slip by
Fickle is my foodie-eye
To chilli-sauce I’ve turned
And I must feel the burn
For this desk gourmet
The hottest hour of the day...

[chorus 2]
It’s chilli con car-nay - out of my way
For lunchtime
The microwave - slow as a
Paving-slab line
Too hungry to make good rhymes
Oh look, there goes my lunchtime
Already - I’ll take it back with me

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from Blackbirds Banquet: Songs From FAWM 2016, released March 7, 2016
TA Walker - vocal, ukuleles, guitars, drum/bass programming

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TA Walker UK

Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.

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