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You were sleeping
Ah, ah ah
Sunlight on your back
You were dreaming
Ah, ah ah
And I lay inside a field
Beneath a cherry tree
And listen to the grass
And horses as they pass
And wake up in the light
Across the mountainside
And I sleep beside a fire
I built with burning tires
Sunlight on your eyelids
You were sleeping
Ah ah, ah ah ah
Sunlight on your back
You were dreaming
Ah ah, ah ah ah
Oh oh oh oh oh...
Thanks Bill + Rebecca for keeping it fresh and different. Onwards and upwards!
For a bad example of mixing L-R poorly, some of the early Beatles would switch 100%-0% Left channel to Right channel, at odd times, and switch the bass portions, as well as all of the sound elements, which you'd never hear naturally in the real world. By including the bass as well, that ensures that it seems unnatural, since this would be impossible. Just when used for special effects though, it does work for for DeadMou5's "Imaginary Friends".
@BillG, How the heck do you find this stuff? I mean, I know he is a member of Vampire Weekend, but one never hears him on the Radio? Are you a music-archeologist?
I think we all know the answer to that last question is Yes!
Wow!
7 => 8
! *would swear this is a David Byrne joint!
Hahaha I was expecting his voice too!
Great song though. Never heard of him. Magical.
One of my favorite tracks was ‘Wood.’ To me, it sounds like George Harrison doing a raga or something. Can you tell me about the instrumentation and song structure for that one? Because it seems like such a traditional story. You know, a simple story of the horses and the grass.
I used a regular old 12-string acoustic guitar for a lot of the
second half of the song, but I tuned it in the way that you would tune this Persian instrument called the Tar. The most ancient music that I’m referencing on the whole record is this Persian form called the Rast Panjgah. It’s a collection of melodies and you’re touching on those melodies over the course of the performance. I think it’s a few thousand years old.
I guess I was trying to make connections between Indian music, Bollywood music, Iranian music, American folk music. I guess I wanted to present my vision of how those things should live together.
The fact that Rostam is one of the founding members of Vampire Weekend, I'm not surprised at all by the divergence and congruence of sound here. This is an auditory piece of art.
Well, this certainly charges madly off in all directions, doesn't it?
Bill just quoted this comment when he backsold the song.
Got to second the LLRP in the first post...
LLRP