the dust collector

the dust collector

JOINED:46 weeks ago
PROGRESS:22

LOCATION:inside the bureau drawer
INFLUENCES:T.S. Eliot, Sufjan Stevens, Jeff Beal, Mumford & Sons, Switchfoot, Jon Foreman, John Rutter, Jars of Clay, E.E. Cummings, Stephen Sondheim. Britten. Satie. Simon & Garfunkel.

BIO:

Childish. Whimsical. Alive again, just. Cautiously. May not be here often, but am back to try and keep my promises.

Female and mezzo-voiced. Endlessly fascinated by collaborations.

Songs: 22 ( + = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

		Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1		Talk		18	46 weeks 1 day
2		Apples	plainwhitetoast	12	45 weeks 5 days
3		Golden		14	45 weeks 5 days
4		Promisement		1	45 weeks 5 days
5		Do Not Write Songs When Tired		16	45 weeks 3 days
6		The Singing at the End of the World		2	45 weeks 3 days
7		Two Bloody Licks	Roberta	8	45 weeks 2 days
8		bruised human		5	45 weeks 2 days
9		Boys		3	45 weeks 1 day
10		Rue		0	44 weeks 2 hours
11		Alice		1	43 weeks 5 days
12		Two Darlings Waltz		0	43 weeks 5 days
13		Carus		2	43 weeks 1 day
14		LA-LA-LA (or, Write For Yourself First.)		6	43 weeks 1 day
15		White Birds		0	42 weeks 4 days
16		For the Love of Bed		9	42 weeks 2 days
17	+	Bruised Human (Orinoco)	the dust collector orinoco	5	41 weeks 17 hours
18	+	But Really I'm Fine	Monty the dust collector Donna Devine	6	34 weeks 13 hours
19		If You Sit Still	nancyrost	4	33 weeks 4 days
20		Please Don' Put Mah Heart Into The Pepper...		0	33 weeks 3 days
21		He Had His Way With Me	Calum Carlyle Donna Devine	7	33 weeks 1 day
22		London's Burning		2	33 weeks 1 day

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nancyrost

33 weeks 4 days ago

Val, I love what you've done with my words -- really gorgeous! Thank you so much.

nancyrost

34 weeks 12 hours ago

Thanks, Val! Things are good here.

Dragondreams

34 weeks 4 days ago

Demo is up for tinam's Uneven Stevens - and you did say that you'd "kill to hear it"... ;)

http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/6908

TomS

36 weeks 2 days ago

Quite well, other than the fact that I haven't been in the basement for 5 days! At least I have my laptop tp make silly sounds! I have made a drum track for Golden, actually. :) Unbelievable, isn't it? :D

nancyrost

36 weeks 3 days ago

How's tricks?

cts

39 weeks 6 days ago

Woo hoo...ball's in your court. Sent you an email. You know what to do....

orinoco

40 weeks 22 hours ago

Really pleased you like it - hope you're feeling better!

cts

40 weeks 23 hours ago

Thanks! And for the record, you did email me. I hope to finish it this week and get the track to you so you can work your magic.

orinoco

41 weeks 17 hours ago

It's up - hope you like it!
http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/9656

cts

41 weeks 3 days ago

Hey. Did you get that 30 sec. snippet I sent?

Løken

41 weeks 5 days ago

Thank you! :)
I guess I'm doing fine, judging from the circumstances. Still a bit shaken, and I guess most of the nation is as well. Thankfully noone I know was hurt. Just got back from a political summer camp similar to the one on Utøya (but with the Young Liberals, not Young Labor). It was strange but nice to meet my friends again. I'm trying to resume songwriting, with varying success.

backward binoculars

42 weeks 3 hours ago

Thanks for the comment! Any comparison to Sufjan is a huge compliment!! The verse, believe it or not, has come up a lot recently in my life. I didn't have to search it out or anything, it was very much on my mind. It probably seems eschatological because largely I think it is. And I believe we currently live in that time. :)

auditasum

42 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks for your always-friendly comments. :) They cheer me.

segers41

42 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for the comments on Why Tell Me? I'm eventually gonna do a full band, with rockin (my version of rockin') guitars. I'll keep you updated.

cts

42 weeks 2 days ago

Hi. I've been sidelined with work. There are quite a few projects that I have and the deadline's are a bear. I hope to get back on track in the next week or two. I see you're rockin' and rollin' pretty good.

orinoco

42 weeks 3 days ago

Hello - just to say I'm sorry I haven't got to your lyrics yet, real life is getting in the way this week!

I'll hopefully do it next week...

orinoco

43 weeks 4 days ago

Thank you! I've added it to the list, should be able to do something next week!

Leslie

44 weeks 10 hours ago

Thanks for the lovely comment on Betwixt and Between. Sorry for the late reply. I'm a student of Celtic (particularly Irish) culture, language, literature, history, mythology, etc. etc.! Writing in Gaelic is scary but wonderfully fun! Thank you for the encouragement. :)

Løken

44 weeks 3 days ago

Um. I think you should write the lyrics. I can do the music stuff. And then you or both of us can sing. We'll find that out later. Sounds good, eh?

Nick

44 weeks 4 days ago

I finished the vocal take on my song "Play Me a Country Song" and it's up now, so if you're interested in checking it out: http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/7086 here it is! Thanks! :D

Løken

44 weeks 4 days ago

Sure! :D

How are we going to do this? I have never done a collab before.

auditasum

44 weeks 5 days ago

Dude, I dunno, I'm indecisive! Um. You could do a song about how Belle has stockholm syndrome. Or you haven't done a song about Rapunzel, have you? Or the boy who cried wolf. That would be a good gory one...

cts

45 weeks 3 hours ago

Alright...I'll just set my iPod to NZ time and go from there. What I'll do is send you some vocals guides to work with and you can record them and send them back to me. I'll make like Mr. Wizard and we should be good to go. How's that work for ya?

cts

45 weeks 6 hours ago

Hey...I may need your vocals sooner than I might have expected. Are you busy Wednesday or Thursday this week?

Løken

45 weeks 6 hours ago

Thanks for your nice comments!
Yep. Kveldsstemning = Evening mood.

Helen

45 weeks 19 hours ago

I have at my disposal guitars, bass, drums, mandolin, melodica, various electronic musical toys, um... musical ruler...

theodamus

45 weeks 23 hours ago

Haroooooooooo!

cts

45 weeks 1 day ago

Um...no, definitely not funk. No worries; I got it covered.

plainwhitetoast

45 weeks 2 days ago

If you want to add the demo link and list me as a collaborator for Apples, that would be great.

Being 50/90 and all, I tend to not polish things too much past the rough demo stage. If you want to add harmonies or anything, that is more than fine by me. Let me know if you do want to and we can coordinate that.

I'm pleased that you like what I did with you lyrics.

auditasum

45 weeks 2 days ago

I'm a little burned out on lyric-writing at the mo. I was more thinking that I could add music to one of your preexisting tunes. Or a future tune of yours.

plainwhitetoast

45 weeks 2 days ago

Oh, and by "it" I meant your lyric "Apples" :)

plainwhitetoast

45 weeks 2 days ago

Howdy! I saw your post in the looking for lyricist(s)thread. I started working on a simple, murder-ballad type guitar and melody for it.

Here's a link, let me know what you think:
http://files.fawmers.com/plainwhitetoast/plainwhitetoast%20and%20the%20d...

orinoco

45 weeks 2 days ago

Hello! Crucio away, looking forward to hearing what you come up with!

cts

45 weeks 2 days ago

Hey! Got your message and I'll take a few read throughs and let you know what I come up with. I do believe I am the resident funk dude in FAWM land but I have been known to "experiment" time and again.

Liebs

45 weeks 3 days ago

I am...not so good with the actual music bits but I can help with lyrics! Gdoc for sure!

adventuresofamy

45 weeks 3 days ago

actually reading through your influences again, I'm almost certain I know who you are...

adventuresofamy

45 weeks 3 days ago

wow I wish I could sing like you... I have a vague guess as to who you are, but only that. I shall text who I think it is, and if so this will make sense, and if not, one of my dear friends shall have a right laugh at my expense :D

hoops

45 weeks 3 days ago

Hey Dust, thanks for the comment on Miserable Bastard - glad you like it! I'd love you to crucio it. Let me know if you want me to send any bits of individual tracks.

Helen

45 weeks 3 days ago

Well, my understanding is that you have a cracking voice, but no instruments, so how about I do you a backing track and you do lyrics and vocals?

auditasum

45 weeks 4 days ago

I suppose you could send me the audio file and I can add instrumentation around it. I'm auditasum@gmail.com

Rod Cook

45 weeks 4 days ago

Just to let you know, I have sent an email to you about 15 minutes ago.

Helen

45 weeks 4 days ago

Hey - yeah, I'm up for collaborating. How do you want to play it?

auditasum

45 weeks 4 days ago

Ha, I don't play the electric violin. Would that I could! But we could collaborate regardless!

cts

45 weeks 4 days ago

Jelly is a term I use for music. Most of the time it's meant to infer more upbeat tunes, but I prefer to just let it be jelly and jam to it. To collaborate, you can certainly send lyrics or a vocal demo and I can weave instruments and other noises around it. It just depends on what works, really. If you have something you're currently working on, you can send it my way and we'll go from there. Thanks so much for dropping by.

Paul Milne

45 weeks 5 days ago

Hi, just to let you know the demo for Poppies is up now: http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/6733

TomS

45 weeks 5 days ago

Collaboration = good. I see you are primarily a lyricist and melodist (I just made that word up). I play many instruments very questionably.

auditasum

45 weeks 5 days ago

My intention was not, in fact, to increase the banjolele market. I like being the only one with a banjolele. Ukuleles are too mainstream now. :D

cts

45 weeks 5 days ago

Hi. I'd like to collaborate. I really hope you'd like to as well. If not, then I will crucio one (if not more)of your jelly offerings*. :)

*...ask about FAWM regarding the jelly phrase.

Liebs

45 weeks 6 days ago

can't wait! :)

Donna Devine

45 weeks 6 days ago

Honestly, I'm such an idiot! LOL I'll contact you via the "Contact" link. (-:

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