February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

willis fireball (@fireball)

progress: 11

joined: February 1 2004
location: Alaska, USA
website: willisfireball.com
influences: the hermit life

Bio

i've done this every year since 2004. lately been trying different things -- collaborations, sound collages, feasts. 2012 will probably have a three-headed approach:

"49 tune" - i'll be trying to write words and add vocals to 49 instrumentals that some guy wrote. (EDIT -- the guy just mailed them, so maybe this won't happen till march.)

"366" - i've been trying to write and record a songlet every day since january 1, and i expect i'll keep that up. most are pretty drivelly. http://inaliq.com/players/fireball/music/2012/

"feast" - a 14-song session or two

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i live in alaska. in a small village of about 100 inupiaq/ingaliqmiut eskimos. on an island in the bering strait.

thanks, burr. nice work. quite the monster, this thing.

2004 founding FAWM ~ 15 songs
2005 little naked milestone ~ 18 songs
2006 memories of horses ~ 16 songs
2007 headwaters ~ 15 songs
2008 aniak trains ~ 16 songs
2009 the high road in hard times ~ 45 songs
2010 the night country ~ 26 collaboration songs
2011 world spins once ... (the faerbury tales) ~ 38 things

2012 Songs

1	song for jenn	15 comments // 1 week ago
2	and but for the sky	4 comments // 1 week ago
3	ooh la la, la niña	5 comments // 1 week ago
4	The Well Has Run Dry (with blindkiwi)	19 comments // 1 week ago
5	song for fidel	4 comments // 6 days ago
6	the big game	3 comments // 4 days ago
7	scrawny-legged tina	6 comments // 4 days ago
8	song for buffalo	1 comment // 2 days ago
9	chernobyl	3 comments // 2 days ago
10	not saying this is good	zong // 23 hours ago
11	song for the serpent	2 comments // 23 hours ago

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steffan 4 hours ago

No song! All yours!
kaylou 1 week ago

Thanks for the comment! I may get a demo up but I haven't written a melody to the song yet. And you are right - the escape theme isn't unique to the teen years. I mainly named it that because of the few lines mentioning school grades and feeling pressure from authority figures. Thank you again!
wyatt 1 week ago

Thanks on the Earth thing. Right on , I'd like to hear a couple versions of this one especially. Ir's just a possibility on the other so may or may not happen--It's all good
fuzzy 1 week ago

Hey; thanx for trying to listen to my song (the William Burroughs one). It was my uploading mistake; it's working now.

http://files.fawmers.com/fuzzy/MyGoldfishIsAReincarnationOf%20WilliamBurroughs.mp3
wyatt 1 week ago

On "Earth" ---Lemme know if you wanta' take a crack at musicating it. Got another possibility but you've got first dibs if you want
(Interesting place you live there)
Just listened to the "Well" song with B K--Love it!1 My kinda' song
artslut 1 week ago

Thanks for the comment. It's appreciated.
froley 1 week ago

Hey, thanks for the comment on my song. It would definitely be a challenge to fit vocals to my music - I can't sing worth a damn so I don't even try. This is my second FAWM, so it's possible we've crossed paths before!
blindkiwi 1 week ago

Just sent you an email
blindkiwi 1 week ago

Hi fireball, yes, it's official, we are a collab

Yes I usually prefer to do lyrics first, It has been a slow start for me this year, about 5 half written lyrics and not one completed. Maybe this will be kick I need. Do you have a genre or topic preference?
caseewilson 1 week ago

Thank you for your comments please don't give up on doing piano chords, when I started, all I could do was bang out some chords too! I look forward to hearing more of your work
brzan 1 week ago

Thanks for your comments on Moja Zena!
ericdistad 1 week ago

Here comes number 9!