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Vanished Moments
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This is my twelfth song from FAWM 2009. Finally I got back to my home base, soul jazz backed up by a Hammond Organ. This song is a sort of eulogy for a bygone era.
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Jazz-influenced progressive rock.
artist is a middle and high school science teacher residing in Sterling, VA, USA. He switched to teaching after a career in medicinal chemistry. He is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, a Native American tribe originally indigenous to the Southeastern United States. As a musician, he plays bass, guitar, Hammond organ, keys, and various drums. Many of these appear on his first album, , it focuses on a jazz-influenced rock sound; however, like , it is almost exclusively built using odd time signatures (such as 5/4 and 7/8). In this way, although it was born in a different world, it retains its connection to the past. One more move: this time to a new house. It was a difficult change, and out of the struggle was born a new sound. is just that: a collection of jazzy, funky, cool -- and most of all, original -- compositions. In addition to the works above, Bruce is also on , where he releases raw (unmixed) tracks from his albums and other works for use by remix artists.
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Peak #226
Peak in subgenre #28
Author
Bruce H. McCosar
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February 20, 2009
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MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:34
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I grew up in the 1970s. This song is dedicated to some vanished moments. When people think back on the '70s, they seem to remember only the goofy parts. I remember a decade that had a lot of potential. Then came the soul-crushing 80s, the superficial 90s, and the depressing 00s. When I was a kid, I thought by the year 2009 we'd have cities in space and bases on the Moon. How wrong I was. Instead, we decided to focus on the problems here on Earth -- war, poverty, injustice. And you can see how successful we were. We cashed in our dreams to fight the same old battles we've been fighting for the past 10,000 years. For once in our history, we did something spectacular -- America's space program was once a true marvel. Humanity looked up from its long wallow in the mud and tried to reach for the stars. We gave it up. Those moments of transcendence . . . they vanished. History is a long nightmare from which, apparently, we can never awaken. *New*: This song was eventually remixed and made part of my sixth Jamendo album, In Unexpected Places.
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