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An experimental, ambient piano 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
Electronic Downtempo
Charts
Peak #959
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
L. Wise, N. Wise
Rights
1986, 2007
Uploaded
May 12, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.4 MB 128 kbps 5:55
Story behind the song
The first thing you're going to notice (and hear) is this 'filter noise' that I used to resemble a 'windy seashore'. From there, the percussion rises, then the piano and mellotron kicks in. "Sunday" is actually a remake of a song me and Ned (my brother) did as a 'C.F.M. All-Stars' project. It was actually the THIRD (and final) C.F.M. All-Stars track (after "Funk And Circumstances"). The melody and structure of this track is the SAME as that 'original session' from mid-1983, but whereas that original had two people (ME on Casio MT-68 Keys and Percussion, with Ned playing the Bass Guitar!), this version is all me and the (then 'new')Casios MT-200 and MT-440 V, over TWO Tracks! The result--3 years after that 'original'--was something that was a little easier on the ears than the last version, and one of the smoothest instrumentals I've done. It was also the ONLY Instrumental on "The Shackle-Brains" original Cassette-Album in August 1986--opening up SIDE B of the original cassette. It makes it's INTERNET DEBUT today (Sat., 5-12-2007).
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