It goes without saying, that the past four years have shaken many of us up and rung us out like a dirty mop. In spite of the rampant misinformation campaigns, total disparate opinions, murderous police and the like, somehow there appears to be some relief in sight. Although, and I have to say it, we look to be headed towards what was called the “norm” prior to all the chaos. Yes, I know…we have a woman as Vice-President-elect of the United States and that is great…symbolically. Me? I want to move past all the thin semantics, symbolisms and archaic systems into the now. There are people in this country that thrive on and respect the diversity of this country. Indeed it is even seen as a mini version of the what the entire world could be. People of all ethnic backgrounds working, living and loving together. But systems that have been in place and chipping away at the mechanisms that promote togetherness and replacing them with laws and lack of regulations that allow the criminals to rule the roost. Just look at it for what it is folks..it ain’t right and those who think it is are most likely criminals profiting from it or well on their way to becoming just that. So..don’t let your guard down..I hate to say it but, I believe that was just one round of more to come. And this is true also, there are way more people in this country that have at least a parallel view of this opinion I just laid out. But…it’s not sensational enough to make the criminal owned news broadcast. Having rambled on and said all that..I must also say that those of us who have helped during all this frightening confusion, doing what ever we can do to help one another…keep doing just that. It is truly the counter balance for all the nasty shit that happens.
Now for some humanmusique productions news. Short story here. I’ve previously posted things and worded it to sound like we are “we” here at humanmusique. “We” are “me”. All of the music is cranked out in our..as in our home, our basement in my studio using LPX, an Maudio interface, a Roland JV1010 sound module, an Maudio Hammer 88 keyboard controller and several third party plugins. That’s the “we”. I’ve been at this song writing, mixing, publishing, song contest entering, trying to find a good formula networking thing seriously for about four years now. So, minus vocals, everything you hear in the music is either played, programmed or hand picked by me. I have plenty of inspirational support from family and some long time close friends. This whole venture started with a drummer at the age of sixteen banging around juke joints in backwoods Louisiana, to the Air Force Band and finally as touring drummer. And at some point all the while I had at least one hand in song writing. Now I have both hands and my feet and at sixty-eight now..it still ain’t over. What I offer, like many song writers’ do, is a piece of my soul. Every song has a piece of some song writer’s soul in it. That’s what gives it life. And the names of the different bands that I mentioned are all different moniker’s that I use to give all the music a place to be. There’s Papa T, foreyes, likuid eklektik, SOLA Groove and Louisiana Mint. Some of these you have not heard from yet. But you will in the not too distant future. There you have it…it’s all about me.
Moving on…In about two weeks I’m releasing my third CD…the group…foreyes…the title of the CD…NO LANES2020. Now the “2020” is just a catch. The content of the CD itself has nothing to do with “2020” per se, the CD just happened to be finishing up in “2020”. There was one song, but we…and I say “we” because it was myself and ERAK NIN JA that decided to pull it. It wasn’t there yet..not like we want it to be. Why?? You say..did we pull it? ERAK NIN JA and his lovely wife are expecting and addition to their family. Noting else to say there. They’re at their home now nesting away in preparation for the day LiL WaY Way introduces himself in person. The song is titled “H.O.P.E.” Humans of the Planet Earth. I said it before and I’ll say it again. Hokey Majokie right? Well in short..the problems we’ve been experiencing here in the United States since it’s inception are indeed a global issue. And has been for probably as far back as records go for colinizations. Our (mine and ERAK NIN JA’s) take on this is that we speak to those of us on this planet, now linked the most powerful tools that mankind has seen in the way of computers in our pockets and the friggin internet. People across the globe commune like never before. A friend in Thailand, Switzerland or Ethiopia is a click away. And there is a generation that, if they happen to connect on a human level..person to person with total freedom to just be HUMAN…now you got something there. The issues are discussed on an entirely different level without the spin of corporate media and corrupt governments. And atrocities abound are discussed and suddenly humans across the globe have something monumental in common. Marcus Garvey, to a large degree Mahatma Gandhi saw the ills, as well as MLK when he denounced the war in Vietnam.. Not putting myself in that league by any means. But being aware of the scope of things helps you from being caught short sighted. Being lulled into thinking poor pitful me..Poor pitful world. And I have an opinion on that and put H.O.P.E. together with the help of ERAK NIN JA…and on a future foreyes CDH.O.P.E. will materialize. And, unfortunately the song will still be relevant.
But at this point what we do have for the current foryes CD is seven songs..grooving in linear fashion. I just finished up the cover art…art…I typed on some characters in text box on a picture I liked…Picked a font and done. Cool picture though. And as I mentioned earlier, in just about two weeks it will be out.
So I ask a favor of any of you that happen to read alllllll the way through this to do a big favor for me. I’m linking this blip to fb and ig. Both are really fb, but hey, no monopolies here. Anyway..Not too sure about adds on either one of those platforms right now, but if you would tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend…and ask that they just come straight to this page and suffer through this as you have, then we’ll all be happy! Now that makes three CD’s out there in the streaming/downloading world for your listening pleasure. likuid eklektik/NEVER2LATE, Papa T/A LITTLE DUB’LL DO YA and shortly foreyes/NO LANES. Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, iTunes, Pandora, I Heart Radio and Amazon…and maybe one or two more. Stop by and and connect.
Genuine thanks and take good care
Tom T/humanmusique productions
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