song writing relief
hi, so i’m pol rosenthal and i’m one of the newer members on this latest endeavor for the DAE. Haruko and Josh have asked me to lend my literary talents to songwriting, lyric construction. (if that’s not enough of an intro you can also get more on me here.)
h & j gave me a song tentatively titled, ’scam and search;’ it’s a sort of hiphop type piece. or it’s the dae’s take on a hiphop number. it is, of course, endowed with their strange and peculiar spirits. and i am totally in love with it. i think we might be changing the name to something like, ‘relief song.’ haruko has a great line that goes, ‘i wanna wake up/on the day that we find our relief’ that has been inspiring me for the last few days. thanks haruko!
we’ve been spending hours and hours just getting the words right. some kind of a positivity anthem. i think. it’s pretty whimsical at the same time. lots of overdubs and strange piano loops and chorusing vocals and something that is known as ‘the cheeseburger.’ if you are curious as to what a cheeseburger is in terms of vocals let me tell you: it’s just doubling up the original vocal and not changing the key. it might also be when you put some more meat on your head in the studio and somebody slaps you and says, “quit being so cheesy…” i hope not. i don’t like putting meat on my head and h & j keep threatening to cheeseburger everything.
i will shut up now. i am very excited to be working with haruko and josh and jeff. here’s some pictures from our session earlier today. i’m the guy who needs a haircut. shutting up.
