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  the dust collector


JOINED:46 weeks ago
PROGRESS:22  22 songs
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
Demofav
18 46 weeks 1 day
2 Apples
Demo
DonatedWinner plainwhitetoast 12 45 weeks 5 days
3 Golden
Demo
14 45 weeks 5 days
4 Promisement
Lyrics Only
1 45 weeks 5 days
5 Do Not Write Songs When Tired
Demo
16 45 weeks 3 days
6 The Singing at the End of the World
Lyrics Only
2 45 weeks 3 days
7 Two Bloody Licks
Demofeast
Roberta 8 45 weeks 2 days
8 bruised human
Lyrics Only
5 45 weeks 2 days
9 Boys
Lyrics Only
3 45 weeks 1 day
10 Rue
Private
0 44 weeks 2 hours
11 Alice
Private
1 43 weeks 5 days
12 Two Darlings Waltz
Private
0 43 weeks 5 days
13 Carus
Lyrics Only
2 43 weeks 1 day
14 LA-LA-LA (or, Write For Yourself First.)
Lyrics Only
NSFW
6 43 weeks 1 day
15 White Birds
Private
0 42 weeks 4 days
16 For the Love of Bed
Demo
9 42 weeks 2 days
17 + Bruised Human (Orinoco)
Demo
the dust collector
orinoco
5 41 weeks 17 hours
18 + But Really I'm Fine
Demo

Donna Devine
6 34 weeks 13 hours
19 If You Sit Still
Demo
Donated nancyrost 4 33 weeks 4 days
20 Please Don' Put Mah Heart Into The Pepper...
Lyrics Only
0 33 weeks 3 days
21 He Had His Way With Me
Demo
7 33 weeks 1 day
22 London's Burning
Demo
2 33 weeks 1 day


Soundboard


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

Thanks, Val! Things are good here.

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

DD

Donated  TomS
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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

How's tricks?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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. :)

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

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.

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.

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...

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

Donated  Leslie
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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. :)

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?

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

Sure! :D

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

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...

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?

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

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

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

Haroooooooooo!

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

Donated  hoops
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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.

Donated  Helen
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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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

can't wait! :)

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