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Through The Looking Glass

from .​.​.​As It Goes: Songs From FAWM 2017 by TA Walker

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My fifth FAWM… and at the time I started out on 2017’s run of songs, I must say I didn’t especially feel “in my happy place”. Not that things were bad close to home - pretty good, actually - but for various reasons (traces of which you may detect in song 1) I entered FAWM 2017 feeling quite drained and uninspired. The fight-back against both begins here…!

This song probably wouldn’t exist in this form without Garageband on my iPhone 6S, in which it was not only recorded, but arranged and (mostly) composed. The “feel” came out of a part played by GB’s virtual Drummer feature (“Mason”, for anyone familiar with the “players” there); I also laid down electric piano and bass tracks with the instruments in GB, to create the basic rhythm track. I did all this in spare moments during 1st-2nd February, and at home on the evening of the 2nd, I plugged in the electric guitar (Ministar Testar) via a Line6 Sonic Port VX, and recorded two parts with it, as well as a vocal.

The project was then transferred to and mixed in Logic Pro X. I could’ve done a fair bit more with the project there (re-voicing the MIDI instruments, etc. - I did this with the e-piano and bass), but time was rather short so I kept things pretty much as they were, just EQing and adding basic FX. The time constraint is also why this demo doesn’t outstay its welcome - I could’ve stretched it out, added bridges, solos, etc., but that would’ve delayed its posting by a day or two, and I have a lot more to do here...

I hope I’ll brighten things up as I go through this FAWM, but please bear with me in the meantime as I get this off my chest ;-)

lyrics

Black is white
And dark is fear
No world outside your frame
Up is down
To fall is flight
The past is what we claim
We build our reality
To stand on legs of clay

Four lights, four fingers
Through the looking-glass again
Trust us, we got this
It’s warm and yellow - call it rain

Day is night
An eclipse, the sun
A cloud across the moon
A grain of sand
In billions
Will build the mighty dunes
An hourglass of untruths
To bury for all time

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from .​.​.​As It Goes: Songs From FAWM 2017, released March 2, 2017
Played and sung by TA Walker

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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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