Name: Enchanted Gown (She's Magic)
Duration: 3 min 49 s
Channel: L. Wise/M. Richman
Description: "Enchanted Gown (She's Magic)" is a song by Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS. About a magical lady, the way she dances, and the enchanting gown she wears when she dances.

About a magical lady, the way she dances, and the enchanting gown she wears when she dances.

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Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS

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

R&B • Smooth R&B

Charts

Peak #128

Peak in subgenre #36

Author

L. Wise/M. Richman

Rights

2007

Uploaded

September 12, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:49

Story behind the song

Let's see:

If I'm NOT mistaken, this should be Collab No. 8 between myself (under the 'OSMOSIS' banner) and The FUNKASAURUS (a.k.a. Maurice Richman).  This is an old instrumental track from his previous internet-band, PIPE-LAYERS UNION, who specialized in rock-n-funk.  

As for the lyrics;  everything sorta built up around this chorus-hook I've created wayyyyyyyyyy back in the '80s (MAN!  It PAYS to have a 'back catalog'--heh heh!) that went--"I Love You Every Time You Get Down/ I Love The Way You Move So Smooth".

I actually USED that chorus--ONCE!  And, NOT the way I WANTED to (It's a Long Story concerning the opening cut to "The Tokyo Connection" Cassette-Album, back in '82/'83).

Let's just say that it didn't come out as the BALLAD I was hoping for back then.  Luckily, a couple of decades of Maturity (**ahem!**) fixed that, and the backing instrumental from The FUNKASAURUS helped out a lot.

So, in a way, we got ourselves an OSMOSIS/FUNKASAURUS 'slow-jam' (and one that comes across a whole lot better and maturer than my 'previous' one from '91, "Girlfriendo'mine"), which also rounds out the SEVENTH 'OSMOSIS' Album, "High-n-Horny!"

(Now, onto Album 8!!!!!)

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