I bet you’ve been wondering how things are going with the recording project for Spellbound. Well I’m glad you asked, since it’s been a while since I posted anything about it. I spent the last few months working on a new song, called The Call of the Muse. The first four songs were all pretty short, totaling just twelve minutes between the. This one is seven and a half minutes long, so it took a little longer to record. It also has lots of layers of guitars and synthesizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This song was truly a collaboration between Martin and myself. It was a little bit ambitious, with two contrasting sections and a reprise of the first part as an outro jam. My recollection of this one is pretty hazy, and in fact I’d totally forgotten all about it until I heard it again last year. I think the initial impetus came from Martin. He had a guitar riff and a fragment of a lyric, and was pushing me to write, and particularly to come up with lyrics. The idea became to write a two part song, a sort of conversation, something like No Sugar Tonight \/ New Mother Nature by the Guess Who, or maybe Your Move \/ I Seen All Good People by Yes. So Martin mainly wrote the first section, based on a rhythm guitar pattern, and I added a swoopy, sweeping synthesizer solo. Martin sings lead and I sing harmony. Then the groove shifts to a keyboard pattern and there’s a new melody and lyric, and I’m singing lead on this section with Martin doing harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel like my parts were kind of a response to the initial themes and direction Martin established.\u00a0 The imagery is bright and sunny and full of longing, the central metaphor being the call to adventure as a maiden made of sunshine. Back in those days I struggled with lyrics, just to make them fit the melody and rhyme, so there’s a fair amount of repetition and the images are all over the place (and it doesn’t always even actually rhyme).\u00a0 Maybe Martin helped with the chorus in the second section too.\u00a0 Ah well, you gotta start somewhere.\u00a0 The lyrics still are better than alot of songs out there, and at least they’re earnest and heartfelt from a particular time and place.\u00a0 Musically, the whole structure and chord progression and layers of sounds and instruments, and the whole dynamic journey is all pretty cool. And once I started working on it, the track has shaped up to far better than you’d expect, absolutely killer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Spellbound (The Call of the Muse)<\/b><\/p>\n\n
\nPart I: Look for the Girl<\/i>
I bet you’ve been wondering how things are going with the recording project for Spellbound. Well I’m glad you asked, since it’s been a while since I posted anything about it. I spent the last few months working on a new song, called The Call of the Muse. The first four songs were all pretty … Continue reading “New Lyric: Spellbound (The Call of the Muse)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-spellbound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6608,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}