Raw Impressions presents Mini Music Monday. Hi. Hi, hon. That is a nice new intro.
It's softer. Yeah, it's rounder. It's curved. I've had a bit of a harsh jarring week, sonically.
So I thought that for this Mini Music Monday, and maybe all of the ones following, I was going to go for something softer. Wow, we're switching it up. Yeah. And I just pulled out my old wow.
You hear that everyone? Wow, it's nice. Wow. Wow.
That's soft. So I was going to mention that this Mini Music Monday is a listener request. We had an email come in. And thank you for the emails that are starting to roll in at rawimpressionspodcast at gmail.com, where you can send us your song requests or your thoughts or whatever.
But this one came in from, I believe it's Philip. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that correctly, but it's F-I-L-I-P. So I've never seen Philip spelled like that. I've seen it spelled like F-H-I-L anyway.
It's your pin. It's your pin. What does last name? F-I-L-I-P.
What's his last name? Um, do we do that? Should we put his last name on the phone? Oh, God.
That's a good question. No. Okay, we're going to leave. We'll leave.
Yeah. All you need to know is privacy will be preserved. Yeah. We're grateful for your nice email though.
And he had two song requests, but we're able to just fulfill one today, which is he would like to hear free to go by full conclusion. Now, do I wait for the countdown to happen before I start this? I don't know. So the countdown is going to happen and then, well, it's kind of nice.
This worked out this request coming in because Lou is leaving. I don't know. Let's talk a little bit about the full conclusion. Yeah.
I'm leaving in a week to go and really work, begin real earnest, honest, hard work on the full conclusion record because to this point, we've been doing it all pretty much remotely. I've been there a couple of times, but this is going to be like a week where we're actually what we're going to focus in on these songs that John and I have been parallel creating. John has been doing all the music. I've been working on the vocals, but we have not really been collaborating in person.
And we haven't been doing, we were like, oh, we'll zoom every week on Tuesday for, but all of the planets, it's been really difficult to coordinate any work together, but I'm going to go to Durham for a week for a week. And the other day I did all of my vocals for the songs that I have, all the ideas and progress, and I sent them all to John. And so then he started structuring his sounds around my vocals, which I don't know what's happening with that. I'm a little nervous about it.
My heart is pounding right now a little bit as I'm talking about it. I've never really worked on a record this way before. Like so remotely. So you're nervous because it's so new?
Yeah. And I think when people say, oh, we're working remotely, like to me remote is one of, is a sad word. People use it casually. No, we're working remotely.
But whenever I hear the word remote, I just hear like, do you feel isolated? Yeah. Yeah, you kind of associate remote and isolation, I think. So the last record we made was called One Part Lullaby, which was sort of the big production, a lot of very produced work.
So each of the records that we made have a flavor to them. And this record obviously will have its own flavor. Yeah. But I don't know what that is.
I know. I kind of like that mystery actually with it to see what's going to happen. And I've been getting little sneak peeks with the songs from any music Monday. Some of them you've shared.
I have been sharing. So commencing in five notes. Good, but I'm catching butterflies. I'm driving drives watching TV at seven good years.
Hold on. Who'd you say, well, look at me? I didn't like they'd see. I was trapped in the back seat.
Stay on your side. I'm not the wind up, feeling the wind rush by. I'm a parent's fight. Where did you go?
Did I make you leave? It's another thing I didn't know. Nobody ever believes. They just leave.
They just leave. And they'll see you in their own sweet time. Just leave. I didn't leave my room till I learned how to drive.
Sour 17, fighting in the back of my mind. Until the wheel is on my mind. Free to go. It's still too young to leave.
Open up the thing I know. Nobody ever believes. They just leave. They just leave.
They just leave. They just leave. They just leave. They just leave.
They just leave. My plane landed. I'm alive. I'm not fighting at the things I never thought I'd do to survive.
I finally arrived. Now I know. More than I've ever believed. More than I've ever believed.
Then you could not have let me know. She was just as young as me. You had to leave. You had to leave.
You had to leave. You had to leave. Good request. I love that song.
Is that okay? Yeah. That was really nice. It was spirited.
Was it? That's good. My energy level has been lagging. But I got a good night's sleep last night.
You did. You mentioned that when you woke up and you had kind of a peaceful look on your face. That was nice. Well, that has helped my speech at all.
My tongue is still slow. Tongue tide. That's because of that death wish coffee. Sorry.
I bought you the wrong coffee. Man, you got the death wish again. I was like, I don't know. I didn't mean to.
I mean, I only drank like a double of that because usually I do a quadruple. I was like, I cannot do a quadruple of a death wish or I will. It'll ruin my day. Don't do it.
I'm like, okay. Anyways, that song. Yeah. That's from One Part Lullaby.
That song is inspired by that beautiful song by Frank Sinatra. When I was 17, it was a very good year. I was like, I got to write a song that goes through the ages. I didn't know that.
That's neat. Yeah. I did it, but I wrote it from the perspective of a child of divorce going through their life. And then the third verse ending with them coming to terms with realizing that they were as old as their parents were when their parents perhaps had split up.
Interesting. Okay. So I kind of wrote it from not my own perspective. That's unusual for you.
It is unusual. But that's kind of what I do with a lot of folk and stuff is I kind of, John and I will have discussions and the songs will come out of the discussions. Well, because this is, yeah, folk and Plocean is a collaboration. Yeah.
And even lyrically, like John and I will speak and we've actually done this for the new record too. We'll talk about the concepts of the songs and then I kind of put myself into the story. The story. And perhaps I've got some interesting challenges for the new record.
John's father passed away in the course of us putting this record together and wanted to make a song about that. Yeah. So that's been interesting. So yeah, but I kind of wish we were closer because I would like to just walk.
I would like to just go to his house and discuss these lyrics every week over some mild coffee. That was going to say. Maybe not. I don't think John drinks coffee.
He might not anymore. I mean, I think he drinks tea. Most adults eliminate some of these things as they get older. But they find that they create impasses or obstacles.
I don't. He's really smart. He's smart. Song.
I'm dancing. I'm going to play another song. I'm going to play another song from one part of the line. I'll do everything he never would.
I'm a kind of command. And when I said I understood, I only knew where to stand. So I'll be there for you, if your world's on a while. My mechanical moves.
Keep it the moon you desire. I hope I will recreate the thrill. And take your body by the hands. And shake your soul awake.
Dropping signs at your feet. I whisper low and sweet. But if you want to see me angry, I can't meet. Lose a number, miss a key and a will meet.
I can reach your mind. But still believe your lies. I can dance but I'll never understand. I'm a kind of command.
Oh, bye, well. Recreate the thrill. And take your body by the hands. And shake your soul awake.
Shake your soul awake. Shake your soul awake. But I'm not perfect after all. I still get jealous when he goes.
Something's wrong, pride was never in the plans. Turn me in for your brand new mechanical man. I hope he will recreate the thrill. And take your body by the hands.
Shake your soul awake. I hope he will recreate the thrill. And take your body by the hands. Shake your soul awake.
Tune in for your song. That song on one part lullaby. So big. That song.
Yeah. Kind of makes me a little emotional. Not gonna lie. That record still kind of looms large to me.
Yeah. Like we really put a lot of ourselves into that record. But it was also weirdly also a remote record. Because we were, John and I were both in our own little wilderness at that point.
Yeah. And we were both in our own little wilderness. And we were both in our own little wilderness at that point. That's longest from my wilderness.
Yeah. Well, you can certainly be collaborating in person and still be very distant from one another, right? So it's like you have to show up in body and spirit in order for the... I'm sorry.
Please excuse me. It's time to end this Money Music Monday on Ron Prashins. Thank you very much to everyone listening. Money Music Monday concludes.
That was nice, right? Yeah, that was great. It's perfect cutoff for my deep thoughts before I go. Yeah, that was great.
It's perfect cutoff for my deep thoughts before I go too crazy. Yeah. Yeah.