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That Black Line of Sparrows
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a song about birds and Texas
mood music new age jazz i
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porn music for the insane
Take away the array of bombastic pop songs, separate them from the ugly noises and you end up with this; mood music from heaven. furiousBall doesn't just create music, he shapes it. By drawing a bit from jazz, a bit from funk, drips from reggae and then mixing it up, furiousBall moulds his music around his own personality rather than someone else's. There is a singular touch to furiousBall's songs that captivate, regardless of one's previous musical tastes. Soft, gentle and very atmospheric, furiousBall insists on making music that speaks to the heart and soul rather than just the head. Inspiration comes "from anything really The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, the funny way someone laughs, Kurt Vonnegut books, Kurt Cobain, the way my son laughs or some graffiti under a bridge somewhere. If you only let music be influenced by music," he says, "you're not creating art you're a parrot." [vibewire.net article 11/1/03 by Sukrit Sabhlok]
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Genre
Alternative • Experimental
Charts
Peak #51
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
furiousBall
Rights
2004
Uploaded
June 01, 2005
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MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:02
Story behind the song
The sparrow is a small and assertive bird. It lives all over the world. This ability to survive reflects the idea of great nobility in even the most "common" person. If you have a sparrow come into your life it may be trying to tell you to look around you, are you allowing others to take away your pride or dignity? Do you feel "common"? Have you forgotten your self worth? The sparrow can show you how to assert yourself and triumph over outside circumstances. This comes from the American Indian Animal Totem of the sparrow. Amazing how fitting this is for my life recently. One day driving to work in Austin, TX I noticed a line of sparrows, for some reason it struck me as a bad omen. It was and it wasn't. Two weeks later my wife and I had our baby girl, Vivienne. One month after that, I was laid off, 2,000 miles from any relatives that could help my family. We moved to New Jersey, where my family is (this is the third move my wife and I have made in the past three years). Needless to say, we're tired of the nomadic life that is a result of this crappy economy, we want our son and daughter to know their family and we want to grow roots. I needed control of my destiny. I've got it now. I came back to my home town with determination to get a better job and stop allowing circumstances creep into my family's happiness. The lesson - You ALWAYS have a choice, even if you're just a small assertive bird. So, about the song. There are about 16 tracks from my Motif, 15 or so from Reason (including a ton of Redrum - new for me), and ....this was fun about 25 different guitar tracks. I experimented a lot more with doubling and trippling parts with different contrasting guitar tones. A few of the passages actually were reversed mid-way through the riffs and then righted again, so half way through a sequence, if it sounds backwards - it is. I also used a lot of American Indian samples, some Apache shakers, Koto, Dulcimer, and Taiko drums in the background. And the horse samples are actually Smarty Jones...well no, but go ahead and tell everyone that it is.
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