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Of Peaches and The Universe Next Door

By miraclemiles on April 21, 2024 11:31 pm

Featuring 2Sanguine, my father, on vocals. He's visiting us from his den on the rainier side of the state this week. I asked him what he wanted to contribute to this week's track, and he said he wanted to read some poetry. We had a great couple of hours sitting at the dining room table, talking about poetry and life and recording him reading. He has some poems that have stuck with him over the years, and some favorite classic authors that happened to be in a book I had handy where we discovered some old favorites.
The poems I ended up choosing for the track are, in this order:
- [in Just-] by E.E. Cummings (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47247/in-just)
- To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams  (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51653/to-a-poor-old-woman)
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (partially read) (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock)
----> 2Sanguine says he often says a line from this as he rolls up his trousers in the morning, since he's shrinking in his old age.
- pity this busy monster, manunkind, by E.E. Cummings (https://allpoetry.com/pity-this-busy-monster,-manunkind)

Music is from a live Creatures Once band jam with myself and bandmate Monstrosus. He sounds amazing guitar. A real family and friends collab here. Grateful for all of it.
And grateful for all of your music, WB crew!

Audio works licensed by author under:
CC0 Creative Commons Zero (Public Domain)

Reading poetry is just right for this track. Adding a layer of dreamscape to the track. This is hypnotic. Do i dare to eat a peach? I heard the mermaid singing? This is trippy! Great energy in the delivery at 3:18!

Loving that track, it has so much personality!

Really liked the use of the samples... I mean, your Dad's vocals!
Nice one

The poetry works very well with the music in the background. So nice!

Cool cameo from your dad.  The poetry really meshes with the backing music.  Interesting choices.  I liked the little commentary about how he understood it a little more that time.

I've actually had this snippet of melody in my head for a while that I keep inserting the line "Anyone lived in a pretty how town" from an E.E. Cummings poem into.  I haven't developed it yet, partially because I keep thinking I should change the lyrics to something else, but now you've got me thinking maybe I shouldn't.

I like the whole happenings in here and that you preserve it in this musical way. What a precious document.


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A hypnotic feel to this between the spoken word and organic beats.  Awesome collab between you and your Dad smile

love this so much. your Dad has a great voice for spoken word  heart

love the spoken word and the SOUND of it all. crisp and clear and also textured. hits just right

Kedbreak136 wrote:

Reading poetry is just right for this track. Adding a layer of dreamscape to the track. This is hypnotic. Do i dare to eat a peach? I heard the mermaid singing? This is trippy! Great energy in the delivery at 3:18!

Loving that track, it has so much personality!

Thank you! Yes to dreamscape, I hear those lovely poems read so well and I drift off in a daydream. Yes some trippy imagery too, love that. At 3:18 I think he started out trying to emulate actually what e.e. cummings sounded like smile

myfirstpunksong wrote:

Really liked the use of the samples... I mean, your Dad's vocals!
Nice one

Ha, yes, weird and fun to sample the old pops. Thanks for checking it out.

Techson1390 wrote:

The poetry works very well with the music in the background. So nice!

Thank you, gad you thought so!

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

Cool cameo from your dad.  The poetry really meshes with the backing music.  Interesting choices.  I liked the little commentary about how he understood it a little more that time.

I've actually had this snippet of melody in my head for a while that I keep inserting the line "Anyone lived in a pretty how town" from an E.E. Cummings poem into.  I haven't developed it yet, partially because I keep thinking I should change the lyrics to something else, but now you've got me thinking maybe I shouldn't.

Thank you! glad you thought it meshed ok, very last minute kinds of quick choices. Same with the poems. He actually wanted me to use Journey of the Magi by TS Eliot at first.  We then started flipping through a book of classics and he picked more to read and I ended up picking those since mention of spring and other imagery I liked. That E.E. Cummings poem you mentioned the line from was in there too. It was cool when he read one and said he understood it more, isn’t that the way it always is, had to keep that audio in.
Yeah, no harm in keeping a line in unchanged, can credit it and people will discover a new poem, I hope to hear the result of what you create with that line!

Q-Rosh wrote:

I like the whole happenings in here and that you preserve it in this musical way. What a precious document.

Thank you, happy to hear. Yes I will cherish this document, so glad this happened.

emily wrote:


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This is our friend walking along here! They make us happy, because everything is just peachy. Thank you for listening and sharing the friend!

Tone Matrix wrote:

A hypnotic feel to this between the spoken word and organic beats.  Awesome collab between you and your Dad smile

Thanks! I’m all about the hypnotix. Trying out spelling with with X here. Some super fresh branding, lol. Always good to drift away from the day.

jwh wrote:

love this so much. your Dad has a great voice for spoken word  heart

Thank you glad you liked! I will share that with him, or maybe he’ll come look here. He will like hearing that. I think he had lot of fun reading the poems, which was wonderful.

horatiuromantic wrote:

love the spoken word and the SOUND of it all. crisp and clear and also textured. hits just right

Great to hear that, thank you! I did some quick playing around with some reverbs and things for the mix, glad it landed ok smile

This is beautiful!

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