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A bizarre psychodelic (nope! That's NOT a 'Typo'!) Cosmic Funk Orchestra thang, finally making it's debut (after sitting pretty for 21 years, unused)!
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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
Rock • Psychedelic Rock
Charts
Peak #2,059
Peak in subgenre #28
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
2007
Uploaded
June 15, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 9.9 MB • 96 kbps • 14:27
Story behind the song
Recorded (and overdubbed) "LIVE", with the mini-amp aiming directly for the desktop tape recorder, with un-miked vocals, and then the dubbed organ-part done using the same process (with the previous track being shot thru the stereo's speakers into the tape recorder, as well as a line going into said recorder's auxilary, for safe measure). WHEW!!!!!!! Oh, that "whistle' was a plastic novelty whistle I brought from the corner store for a quarter---no, REALLY!! As for the main rhythm of the song, well that's "BRAIN DAMAGE" (R. Waters/Unichappel Music, UK) by PINK FLOYD, as is the main chorus ("And the worms ate into his brain"). The 'lyrics'--for what they are--are totally improvised (literally taken right out of the air, on the spot!), as is ALL the instrumentation (even the organ dub); yet, it all seemed to gel nicely. And still, this track was SO FRICKING WEIRD (even by MY Way Out standards of Freak-Out Music), that there was NO PLACE for it in any of the cassette-albums I did at the time ("The Shackle-Brains", 1986 or "Time", 1987). So, it was one of those in my deep catalog that just SAT! Luckily, it was in something resembling 'stereo'--and relatively 'clear and clean', considering it's recording process--so, 5 years ago (2002), it was EASY to convert it to CD-master, and earlier this year (March, to be exact), it was even EASIER to hit it with the AUDACITY Filters to give it more 'zest'. The final result (after 21 years--yep, "The Worm Head" is 'street legal'!) is some pretty weird shit. DON'T ASK WHAT I WAS SINGING on this track, because after a full generation, I STILL DON'T KNOW--I just ranted (well, sorta 'mumbled'), mainly because I was literally tired and exhausted when I recorded this "LIVE" Two-Track quickie in '86. AND "SOBER", too---just wiped-out (long week at work, and it showed, 'vocally'.). So, grab a tall beer, or a wine, or your favorite smoke, put on the headphones, cut on the colored light bulbs, and space-out with Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra. Take Your Time, too---you've got nearly 15-minutes.
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