Wrote and recorded a song on my new electric ukulele last weekend.
The result took shape with two of the projects I regularly engage in, the Disquiet Junto and the Naviar haiku. Each project is a weekly prompt to record.
My electric ukulele came from "Sorebrain" via Ebay.
I got the idea for the chorus first, from the line in the poem about the ceiling fan. Then the Junto proposed composing a piece about ghosts and Al Capone's banjo.
I’ve passed trespass stolen keys to the city
drawn curtains on opportunity
like snakes and ladders I have risen
then fallen like an angel into prison
In my reflection is insight
I find clarity in hindsight
from hard sell to my hard cell
from life this truth I tell
Round and round
round and round
round and round
around it goes
I don’t think you understand
despite that card in your hand
which ever way the die spin
the house will always win
Round and round
round and round
round and round
around it goes
Then I gave the track an electronic makeover, with 909-style drums and a synth line from Native Instruments' Monark.
