<<list:
- some lyrics
- all vocals (all current vocals are scratch takes)
- recording of the two solo piano pieces (and redo the first half of the interlude)
- titles for a few pieces
- final mixing and mastering
|This is my latest project. It is a work in progress with the following outstanding:
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I had a random thought one day. In Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series, there is a member of a group (Rlain) who doesn't get "chosen" by a spren to gain powers, but everyone else in the group does. In the novels, Rlain is still somewhat accepted by his group, but does eventually get ignored as the group moves on to other purposes. This concept album is about what if this happened in a harsher condition. The protagonist becomes completely ignored by their former group, and suffers internally because of it.

This has been the project I've put the most effort into by far in terms of the quality of the recording. I'm also thinking of finding a proper vocalist to record the vocal tracks so I don't end up with a high quality album with... less than stellar vocals.


Chosen

Prelude in Eb Minor

Our protagonist is left out as their friends are all Chosen by some new mystical power, but they were not Chosen. Slowly but surely, our protagonist is left out as their friends no longer have time for them.


Stuck As Me

Our protagonist cries out to be Chosen. Shouts their virtues for all to hear, but nothing happens.


It's My Time

Our protagonist grows despondent. They believe there is nothing left for them where they are and moves away and further into themselves.


I See the Edge

Still needs a title.
Our protagonist fears the unknown but has to keep moving on. They fracture in two, one wants to go, one wants to stay.


Interlude in B Minor

The two sides to our protagonist struggle against each other eternally, neither side getting the better of the other. But then, something hits. Our protagonist is Chosen.


No Light

The protagonist unifies, but realize that being Chosen by itself doesn't solve all of their problems. They need to find a new path in life.


It's Clear

Title not yet final. It is also supposed to segue out of It's Clear, but I haven't set that up yet.
Our protagonist finds a new purpose in life, and moves on, realizing that what they had before, and who they shared it with was subpar.


Final

Not yet recorded. A solo piano arrangement of [[song:fawm.fawm_2020.labour_of_love|Labour or Love]] from [[album:fawm.fawm_2020|FAWM 2020]].


Labour of Love

[[category:lavish_dude|Lavish Dude]] is myself and Sean Brennan sometimes writing ok music. Songs are all demos written during FAWM.


FAWM 2022

Magic

You and Me

Open Up

Adam's Rib

Lavender Gardens

Prayer for Mankind

We unfortunately didn't have time during FAWM to record this properly so we synthed with MIDI intead.


Subterranean Pomeranians

Symbols

Mountains

Bossa Teresa

Vivid Portraits

Enough

Dona Nobis Pacem

Okay, so there's a lot to explain this time around. First, the song composition:

Starting in FAWM 2019, we decided to have some sort of game, or extra-musical inspiration, turn into a jam to force us out of our comfort zones. 2019 brought us "Universal Serial Blues," a jam using the chimes for connecting and removing a USB device as the start of a jam progression. In 2021, we had "Telephone," wherein we took turns adding to a project, leaving the other guy to figure out where it had to go (and then could go) harmonically. We felt that gave us too much control... so this year, we came up with a form of pre-compositional randomness inspired *vaguely* by the twelve-tone matrix. We played a round of the classic children's game "Dots and Boxes." Whoever closed a box got to put the name of a chord in that box. We ended up with this:

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We played by the same rules as "Telephone," but this time, had to select an entire row or column (forwards or backwards) at a time for a given section of music. As you see, not everything was exactly a natural fit.

Now, the title: I teach middle and high school students. Adolescents say the darnedest things. We were trading analogies and life wisdom before class one day, and one kid *really* wanted to contribute some sort of profundity. We had come to some conclusion like "the Beatles were the Beethoven of rock," which by the way has a ton of merit - a distinct early, middle, and late period, pioneering an entire era of straying from predictable and orderly form... and so this kid just out of the blue blurts, "Tuesday... is the... Thursday... of Wednesdays." After laughter to the point of tears, I couldn't help but keep that around. (He was a good sport!)

This started off all normal like but of course we couldn't help but get weird in the middle. Some neat riffs, cool grooves and all around fun times. And of course, you can't expect a band called Lavish Dude to take such an activity seriously for long.


Tuesday is the Thursday of Wednesdays

My highest quantity FAWM, but not my highest quality FAWM.  Checkout [[album:lavish_dude.fawm_2022|Lavish Dude]] for the Lavish Dude works completed during this FAWM.


Mysteries of the Night

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Chosen

Late 2020 - (hopefully) Mid 2021 • 55:08

FAWM 2022

2022-02 • 59:51

FAWM 2022

2022-02 • 69:02