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Gravity (What it Feels Like)

from FRONZ ARP IS A TINY CROOKED ORCHESTRA by Fronz Arp

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Please visit my website at fronzarp.com

Home recording from my DIY music project of 2012, in which I wrote, self-produced and release a new song every 2 weeks throughout the year in my home studio with very minimal gear, Laptop, protools + Mbox and Shure Beta58

This was lucky number 13. The ongoing traumas of late continued with the latest release, number 13 for the project. After already running a day later then I'd planned because of sickness, I got halfway through recording this week's song when the hard drive crashed and stopped booting. The next 48 hours were lost testing, working out the problem, buying new parts, and then getting the shits because some of the new parts didn't work properly.

In the midst of this, I recorded “Gravity (What it Feels Like)” on a half dismembered computer before all the new parts had been installed. After the 1st round, it was an easy and fast process because I had already made a lot of the recording decisions and only had to redo them.

“Gravity”, and previous song “You've Changed” were a bit of a different process to usual. I had only partially completed them when I started recording and I finished them by putting down the first arrangements with rough vocals and then filling in holes in the structure and lyrics while listening to what I had on repeat.

Different again for “Gravity” was that I used a Protools function called Beat Detective to make the acoustic guitar and percussion rhythms perfectly in time. Since the interplay of these things was a much finer thing than in any other song I've done, I got them lined up perfectly on a grid in various loops to create the backbone of the sound of the track.

Anyway, the next track is well on the way and I'm hoping, luck permitting, that “Sex with Strangers” (song 14 for the year) will be available on Monday.

Talk soon lovers xx

lyrics

Well my instincts burn
And my head is full
As we climbed until the street lost its faces

We stood our ground
From the grandest height
And threw our secrets out to the sky

Where they hung like crows
So black against the clouds
I could hear them whispering on and on

Is this what it feels like dying
Is it fast and cold
And I can't be with a man like you

When we cried our names
into the atmosphere
We could hear our voices echo back again

From the suns and stars
The sattelites and years
So we won't get lost we won't get lost

Is this what it feels like dying
Is it fast and cold
And I can't be with a love like you

And as the darkness drew closer
The haze fell from our eyes
So I can see where we're going too

We imagine what our bones would feel
In the weigthless pull of gravity

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from FRONZ ARP IS A TINY CROOKED ORCHESTRA, track released June 27, 2012
Written, performed and produced by Fronz Arp

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Fronz Arp Brisbane, Australia

The strange machine which is Fronz Arp grinds like a tattered, angry little hurdy gurdy. With dramatic jaunt and seesawing melodies that have been compared to weird-pop wonders, such as David Bowie and Tom Waits

“...songs full of drama and action, designed to get pulses racing and yet still sounding both intricate and adventurous” Rave Magazine
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