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THE ENDING REVOLUTION (avant​-​garde song)

from EXCREMENT HITS THE OSCILLATOR (2024 Remaster) by The Santairs

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This particular recording/song was the very first avant-garde song I recorded (with actual forethought), deeply inspired by The Beatles “Revolution 9” and Creedence Clearwater Revival's “Rude Awakening #2”. For this recording, there was 3 of us that made all these noises. I was the one who went from place to place playing different instruments I had lying around, like a harmonica, a piano, bass, and various effects, while my best childhood friend, Jeff Olds, played a bass guitar through-out most of the song, never having held a bass guitar before, and a fellow musician Jerry O'Neill playing the one main guitar part. Their instructions were to play and thump anything they wanted to or whatever inspired them. After a minute of starting, I walked around the room and pressed "play" on two different mono tape recorders that already had a bunch of various sounds on them, so it sounded like there were more people doing things at the same time. Soon after we started, the phone rang, which you can hear, and I said, "Let it go!" and signaled them to keep going. In the song, you can hear me performing part of the verse by The Ventures, Walk Don't Run. (I would give them credit, but they probably would be angry that I used this "song" to incorporate that into it.) Well, now they're getting their credit. It's also the first song where I throw the "F" word in there, but not truly saying it audibly. I muffled saying it, and it came out more like "I can't play the Forking thing." I wanted the song to be at least 10 minutes long, and I achieved that. (There's another recording called IT'S MY MIND parts one and two that incorporated the same idea as this song, but it's much longer, being about an hour long with 12 musicians and friends performing different instruments at the same time, playing whatever came to their heads.) For this particular recording, the three of us actually had some fun making it, since there was no real form to it, though it was rehearsed on how we would proceed, like how we'd start the song (with the clock) and the guitar just going away and so on. It was recorded on a 2 track stereo system, using the most basic of techniques. I just adjusted the levels and pressed record. This is one of about 5 avant-garde songs that I truly consider interesting. The rest of the few dozen I've written are more for sound effects and learning techniques than anything else. Not sure if anyone will ever listen to this song in its entirety, but it's now out there for all to hear.
For this particular version, I used the original cassette that was available from the original recording and mixed it in my MINE home studio. This song was actually recorded at my parent’s house back in 1986 or so.
This is the 38th song I wrote.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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Avant-Garde Instrumental

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from EXCREMENT HITS THE OSCILLATOR (2024 Remaster), released May 18, 2015
Wayde K. Brown, Jerry O'Neil, Jeffery Olds.

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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