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A spacey, experimental SCI-FI styled instrumental.
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
Song Info
Genre
Beats Pop
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1989, 2007
Uploaded
April 28, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 6.6 MB 64 kbps 14:26
Story behind the song
Actually the OLDEST Track on the entire "Freakin' Out!!" cassette-album, "The Journeys Of Andaarharr", recorded wayyyyyyyyy back in February 1985 (and 'titled' in late 1987), is an epic 14+minute experimental track, with the ONLY instrument being used for the whole thing: PIANO (and many different Electronic/Filtered Modulations of that SAME Synthesizer-piano--the Casio MT-400-V). It was so experimental, that I just let it sit, because I couldn't find a FIT on one of my album-cassettes for it (and NOT because of 'time constraints', either). To 'balance out' the "Freakin' Out!!" project in late '88, I decided to give this track it's due---even if it DID take up the whole MIDDLE PART of Side B of the final Cassette-Album version (flanked by "Possessed" at the Top and "Diary Of A Taxicab Driver" at the bottom). All in all, Side B of the "Freakin' Out!!" Cassette-Album would even give the producer of a 12-inch vinyl album fits: Thanks to "Journeys......" that whole side topped out at nearly 29 Minutes (only Side 2 of "MEDDLE" by Pink Floyd in 1971 was longer: "Echoes" topped out at 29:47!!!!). I'm so GLAD that I came from the Cassette-Tape Era, and even MORE thankful that CDs can hold over 20 minutes more than a C-60, without loss of quality. So, slap on your headphones, grab a Red Bull, kick back, close your eyes, and travel the universe with Andaarharr and Cosmic Funk.
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