Name: Time
Duration: 6 min 23 s
Channel: Lawrence Wise
Description: "Time" is a song by Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS. The Title Track of a 1987 Cassette Album, finally making its Internet Debut.

The Title Track of a 1987 Cassette Album, finally making its Internet Debut.

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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

Rock • Progressive Rock

Charts

Peak #75

Peak in subgenre #11

Author

Lawrence Wise

Rights

1987, 2007

Uploaded

November 10, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.9 MB • 128 kbps • 6:23

Story behind the song

Sorry about the sound quality of the backing instrumental, but that's the result of mixing down 3 different vocal tracks 'the old fashioned' (errrr, that's 'cassette-to-cassette') way.  

The full-instrumental itself is a killer!!!

Now, as for the theme of the song:  Evolution (or more specifically, Human History).  The question:  IS SPACE THE 'FINAL FRONTIER' FOR MANKIND, Or Can We Command TIME, As Well?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......

It was recorded in 1985 and 1986 over two sessions (the original vocals--which I STILL Have, because I NEVER get rid of my recordings!!--had a flange-effect, and it was a SOLO!), and became the title track for the cassette-album of the same name in '86.   THAT was Version One ("E-Gyp-Shuns" and "Mandeaux Rex" was part of that First Cassette version, before I settled on it's current 12-song configuration.).

The FINALIZED Version of the Cassette-Album placed the Title Track as the very last cut.  And, "Time" is not, nor never was, a Single (that distinction goes to something called "SHAKE"--not the BEST 'proto-OSMOSIS' jam--, and the second-version of "WALKING IN THE SHADOWS").

As for this Title Track, it's as Psychedelic/Prog-Funk as one can get.

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