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Entry from Cassettes in Nur Ein VII.

Villanelle

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Cassettes
by bgm

if we were boxes filled with empty space
amongst the useless junk our lives accrue
cassettes without a label or a case

so easy to exist without a face
tell crying tales as if each one were true
if we were boxes filled with empty space

the trick to find the perfect trusting place
inventing troubled people no one knew
cassettes without a label or a case

no reason to retract or to erase
a conscience wouldn't make us think things through
if we were boxes filled with empty space

when all the stories twist and interlace
and everything's so fake it all seems new
cassettes without a label or a case

they'd all be unaware we'd run a race
what power would we gain when we withdrew
if we were boxes filled with empty space
cassettes without a label or a case

Reviews

2 posted notes

Caravan Ray

Forum post

Great job again. The two above really grabbed me - but this was also awesome.

Again - only a fag paper between the next two:

furrypedro

Forum post

This seems pretty restrainted but I love all the subtle changes here, like the way you'll do a bar of guitar stabs instead of arpeggiating, and then the organ very briefly. Adds drama. Excellent recording. I envy anyone with such a strong handle on vocal harmonies - I need to try a lot harder to get technique like yours down.

DJRD: It's funny listening to the bgm, yours and frankie's song all in a row, works out to be quite a dark fight which was not anticipated by me. Anyway, about your song, very impassioned and I like the way it shifts between laid back and sultry and then shifts up a gear. Great voice. Another very restrained arrangement but it absolutely assists the song.

Thank you everybody for your comments so far (and throughout Nur Ein, sorry that these are the first reviews I've posted 😳 ).

Regarding the loose interpretation of the challenge. We could've omitted the chorus in the WSA track, but:
1. I write my songs for me, not some gosh-darned judge! (I know, I'm in the wrong competition right?)
2. The chorus fucking kicks it (apart from it's mixed a bit too loud - instead of spending all Sunday on it I got drunk and high, whoops 😄 )
3. Suck my nuts (in a nice way. why do I even say stuff like this. Sorry!)
4. I could use a break from Nur Ein, might as well get chucked out in style.
5. Sorry about Glennny this year folks.
6. Sorry Glennny, just tone it down a little, yeah? 8-) (I say this to him when he's recording guitar solos too)
7. I've gone off-topic but this is my tribute to Adam Yauch, and someone else we lost recently (who probably hated hip-hop).

Nur Funf!!

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