This tune is a Frankenstein made up of a few different ideas I'd recorded on my phone over the past few years - the filenames were 'haunting acoustic picking, Nov 2023', 'how long idea, Sep 2024', 'beautiful melody and chords, Jun 2024', and 'interesting acoustic tune, Jan 2021'.

You can probably tell which part was which, just by the descriptions!

Anyway. This is yet another entry into my book of songs I wrote, but cannot for the life of me sing properly. It's not just the notes - it's the delivery. It's not me. So yeah, I'm gonna layer it in vocoder to hide that. It might work if it was more of an electronic tune, but it's half Weezer and half Beatles (with a touch of Muse) in this particular demo.

Didn't write this for the 'sawtooth challenge', but it definitely fits so I'm claiming it.

Gear used:

Drums: SD3 Fields of Rock Bass: Epiphone violin bass, played live via Guitar Rig 7 (plus extra dirt and chorus!) Guitars: Danelectro '59 through Orange Crush 35RT amp; Takamine acoustic Synths: Solina, UAD Minimoog, Odyssey, FM8 Vocals: Shure Beta 58a mic, Ovox

Not a lot of processing on this one. I decided to slam it through an emulation of an old Portastudio tape machine to give it some crunch. Hide the flaws.

Get my finished proper stuff: koshrecords.net

NOTE: Not all of the lyrics I wrote ended up in the demo. At one point, I sing the complete wrong line in the harmony. Ah well, just a demo.

whenever i hold you whenever i fall through you know i adore youuuuuu

a slave to my right-brain whenever i complain it's all relative, you knowwww

so, how long should it take for love to get back home? so, how long should it take for you to get back hoooooome?

as long as i want you as long as you want me arrival is guaranteed

i cave to my left-brain despite that it's insane it's all relative, you knowwww

so, how long should it take for love to get back home? so, how long should it take for love to get back hoooooome?

out of time out of time out of time, what will it take to get you home before dark

how long should it take for love to get back alone?