I've been Songsville and edwn here on FAWM and now I'm datsch

Different name, same through-composed, botany-focused, rhymeless and multigenre stuff as before. Latest album about my crow called Cro is 'Monocrome' which is available from the usuals ...

My FAWM 2022 album is 'Crowden' and it's about a copse and it's plant inhabitants as seen through the eyes of Cro. Each songtitle is simply 'Crow's Copse' but in a different language, going alphabetically from Arabic to Latin.

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  @dukongp100 Mar 2022

  Hey seen you post in the thread re making music w/o listening to music. The songs you make are very interesting! I like the unpredictability and the ideas piece together well. How do you transform your ideas about the flowers into musical ideas ? I see you use a concept, and I’m interested in hearing how that influences your lyrics and music too :)

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  @audrey  Mar 2022

  Sorry, don't know why my post showed up twice. I can't seem to delete this one, only edit it, so Thanks again. :)

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  @audrey  Mar 2022

  Thanks for listening and for the kind words about "Doors and Corners".

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  @nancycunning  Mar 2022

  Thanks so much.

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  @dragondreams  Feb 2022

  Thanks loads, Edwn! Your comments mean an awful lot to me. :-)

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  @elainedimasi  Feb 2022

  You'll love our 2021 50/90 stuff
  http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/user/elainedimasi
  That said... there's my _commitment-adjacency_ to figure in the equation...

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  @halfwayhome  Feb 2022

  Hey, thanks for the plaudits for 'I'm Lazy' - Supertramp? I've no idea what you're talking about..... ;)

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  @elainedimasi  Feb 2022

  My pleasure! And I will hear the latest one as soon as I get out of the meeting I'm in all this morning! - To make a piece both through-composed and musically compelling is, I would say, not accessible to most people, and I was not surprised to encounter how difficult it would be to even make a superficial try at what you do all the time. I now realize that my forum post should've said "thank" and not "blame" though! More folks should come hear your stuff, but this site is SO big now... I could be a 400-comment commenter (which I never will) and still it is 3% of what will be on here..

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  @mahtowin  Feb 2022

  Thank you for listening to my songs and your kind comments!
  I am very glad that my English lyrics are able to bring an imaginary -my English is not the best.
  Schafe / Sheep is one of my favorite songs this FAWM which I made with Duke. And it was such great fun to create it. I love the way we work together! And this childhood memory was absolutely well supported with a waltz. Happy, you liked it.
  
  Btw. I love the way you make your songs: it is always surprising and unconventional - to listen is never boring. Great work!

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  @thesoundof Feb 2022

  Thanks for your kind words! And I just found a new artist to like in Regina Spektor. Thanks for that too!
  
  14 songs seemed so easy this year. I think I the fact that I wrote something first, even if I din't have a melody, helped a lot.

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  @fuzzy  Feb 2022

  Ah, see, I don't think of your music as "Prog"; it has little relation to the approach of, say, Yes or ELP. I think it's more "progressive", which to me is a whole different thing. Prog has definite conventions, while progressive music attempts to work outside of accepted musical conventions.
  Maybe I'm splitting hairs here...
  I think I've been reading too many Brian Eno essays... :)

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  @hamiltonpoolhall  Feb 2022

  Thanks for the comment on "Tempt Me." I'm pleased the lyrics work without "knowing" where they came from. The trem at the end: I copied the guitar part onto another track, cut out everything except the chorus, fed it through a reverse delay and then a sync'd tremolo (both Guitar Rig plugins) with the intensity up pretty high.

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  @fuzzy  Feb 2022

  Hey, I absolutely love your songs.
  They scratch my musical itch.
  I've downloaded them all for future listening.
  Do you know the album "Kew. Rhone." by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad?
  Your approach to music reminds me a bit of that sadly overlooked album.

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  @dragondreams  Feb 2022

  Thanks loads for the great feedback on my lead bass tune! I especially appreciate that from your good self. :-)
  
  The 4003 sounds great, but I just couldn't get comfortable with it. Very headstock heavy. And it also felt quite flimsy compared to some basses. Nice sound, shame about the build quality (at the silly price these things go for).

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  @thesoundof Feb 2022

  Got your mail. :)

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  @thesoundof Feb 2022

  Varis is grey crow but Coppi isn't a Finnish word. I don't know what Crow's Copse is, or is it the small woddland thingy? Lehto or pensaikko. Depends on the rest of the words. :D So it could be Varislehto. (A place where there are trees and crows.)
  
  And yes of course, yes to both, singing and few lines. In Finnish I assume. I don't know if I'm any good but yes!

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  @thesoundof Feb 2022

  Thank you for your kind words. :) Surprisingly (not actually surprised at all) writing a song with my mother tongue is so much easier than in English that it may even show in the melody. I too like the Finnish song best. And of course the egg slicer song because the egg slicer. :D If you hadn't thrown your egg slicer away, I would have definitely asked for your version of an egg slicer song.

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  @o00000101001101o Feb 2022

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  @hamiltonpoolhall  Feb 2022

  Welcome back and thanks for the update on your FAWM handle! I miss being able to recognize people by their old familiar icons...Thanks also for the prompt! I've just been through both "Summer Lightning" and "Heavy Weather" and if there's a more suitable protagonist for the blues than the Empress of Blandings, I don't know who it is.

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  @lowhum Feb 2022

  That wasn't Bulgarian for crow's copse. It should be "gusstAka na gArvanah" the capital letters indicating stress. In cyrillic гъстака на гарвана. What you came up isn't bad at all but has nothing to do with Bulgarian.

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  @mahtowin  Feb 2022

  Thanks! :-)

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  @radioovermoscow Feb 2022

  Chur!

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  @elainedimasi  Jan 2022

  Hey, you're here!!

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  @dragondreams  Jan 2022

  Welcome back! :-)

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  @zecoop  Jan 2022

  Hey, welcome back!! :)

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  @tseaver  Jan 2022

  Welcome, and happy FAWMing!