From d550b8e5e0b28395a2942e333ed37381d6f0d5a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 18:41:36 -0300 Subject: miscellaneous bowman commentary additions --- album/ithaca.yaml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'album/ithaca.yaml') diff --git a/album/ithaca.yaml b/album/ithaca.yaml index a743289..06e9f13 100644 --- a/album/ithaca.yaml +++ b/album/ithaca.yaml @@ -44,6 +44,20 @@ Lyrics: |- Here inside my car I could be the only one Somewhere in the sky a satellite on high Watches with its lonely eye +Commentary: |- + Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/26/2017) + + this song i heard the chorus of in a dream when i was probably like 7 or 8
+ so i wrote around it + + Ucklin: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/26/2017) + + wow, that's really neat!
+ Was it just the words in the dream, or a melody with it? + + Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 8/26/2017) + + melody and words i remember, and the idea that it was like a big synthpop song. i think maybe i'd just seen "a goofy movie" so powerline is swimming around in my psyche at that age. in this dream i'm watching this guy sing this song, and then i'm literally being lifted in the air by the singer (being a small kid) and the song is being delivered to me. in the morning he's exhausted from singing his heart out and sleeping in the garage. before we get a chance to talk to him he sneaks away in a golf cart. i interpret this as being a meeting between myself as a child and myself as an adult. like a self-fulfilling thing --- Track: Ascension Directory: ascension-ithaca @@ -284,6 +298,10 @@ Lyrics: |- Familiar signs have gone away I'm sure if it was not today I'd be there now - I'd find my way +Commentary: |- + Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt, 9/1/2017) + + i'm surprised riki saw the potential for [[track:noun-astro-kids-pronoun-remix|a club track]] in noun but he has always been very sensitive to the remix as a format. i think that's how i relate to him best, he understands the intrigue of how a concept can be developed in alternative directions. you're sort of remixing the work already as you write it anyway, going through revisions. that's why it takes me a while --- Track: Ithaca Duration: '4:04' -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5