22, by A Sea Warren

22

by A Sea Warren

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Andrew Hartshorn Lucky enough to have bagged #1 of this limited edition CD. It’s great how the themes return through the album but in different guises , intelligent lyrics with some great hooks. Love the use of sound effects adding to the save the planet message. Favorite track: Jungle Was Massive (Phase II).

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A CD made at home. The cover is full colour gloss digitally printed and looks stunning, the CD itself is a matt printed image, and looks less stunning, but still good.

I burn each copy, and they are personally signed, and numbered, with a message of thanks for your support.

I make every effort for these CDs to look good. However consideration must be taken when purchasing, the CD Label is printed at home on an inkjet printer. I personally think this adds to the charm.

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1.	Over The Park (Phase I) 04:08	lyrics	buy track
I struggle internally With all modernity My own soliloquy Is there and haunting me It has been so many years That I've lived with all these fears My moods can quickly change From happiness to pain I feel uneasy As my life defeats me I try so hard To forget the world I take it out on those I love They're the only ones I trust I decided I should see If there’s something wrong with me? I go walking in the park My mood stays rather dark The breeze blowing through my hair Or what little I have left I feel uneasy As my life defeats me I try so hard To forget the world
2.	Jungle Was Massive (Phase III) 02:47	lyrics	buy track
I don't know what I've got to do To try and change your point of view Population growth is so extensive Deforestation is so expensive The jungle was massive and that is true
3.	.wav (Phase II) 01:49	lyrics	buy track
The waves wash over me Please don't let this life defeat ya What you see is human nature
4.	Time To Learn (Phase II) 04:16	lyrics	buy track
Don't you know, we'll crash and burn I don't wanna watch Will we never learn
5.	Jungle Was Massive (Phase II) 04:16	lyrics	buy track
Difficult decisions need to be made These are the cold hard facts We lose around 10 Million hectares of forest every single year Deforestation contributes about 4.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide every year No company in the world achieved its net zero deforestation commitment Leading banks financed $119 billion to companies linked to deforestation What are we thinking?
6.	.wav (Phase I) 03:16	lyrics	buy track
The turtles are dying And I'm not lying It's got quite drastic With the use of plastic. So much pollution With little solution We’re not even trying And I’m left crying
7.	Over The Park (Phase II) 02:32	info	buy track
8.	Time To Learn (Phase I) 06:00	lyrics	buy track
I don't wanna watch Will we never learn
9.	.wav (Phase III) 03:09	lyrics	buy track
(The waves was over you) Take my hand And we'll pick litter on the beach I'd like to try To make a difference Will you help me? We'll walk around Our feet brushed by the sea This should remain A place if beauty For all humanity You skim stones As the waves wash over me (The waves was over you)
10.	Jungle Was Massive (Phase I) 03:01	lyrics	buy track
It’s getting smaller every day We’re cutting our lives away Check the decisions that you make How much more can the forests take? Instead of relying on logging You should simply use your noggin When will it be enough in finding The destructive nature of our mining
11.	Over The Park (Phase III) 04:00	lyrics	buy track
In the shortest space of time My mood turns feeling fine It can only simply be The fresh air is healing me I feel complete peace As I breathe so deep My mind is empty I forget the world As I start walking home Surely I should have known My anxieties would decrease And I would feel at ease I feel complete peace As I breathe so deep My mind is empty I forget the world
12.	.wav (Phase IV) 01:35	info	buy track

about

This album was recorded as part of a competition held by the independent record label www.headlightsandwhitelines.com Basically, write and record an album within the Month of May.

Recording another album for 2022 was not something I had planned. When I initially saw the concept of the competition, I was not keen on the idea. I’ve rattled out many an album in a month as a younger man, and none fill me with a great deal of joy these days.

I discussed the premise with my partner, and after much deliberation in my own mind I decided to give it a go. If what I produced was not a suitable quality, I had not actually lost anything.

I had two ideas for the project. 1, a song in each key. I’ve never really written songs with key signatures, so I thought this would be an interesting concept to push myself into creating something new. 2, A kind of concept album, essentially I would improvise four songs each around 10 minutes long, and then cut these four songs into shorter phases that would enable the album to hopefully not be boring.

Idea 2 won as I felt this would be much more achievable within the competition timescale. Bearing in mind I had nothing written at all, I started out quite simply. I chose four tempos and then searched out four beats. I also chose four sound samples, and these would become the themes of each song.

I began improvising. Guitar, bass, keyboard, my notation software that I had been learning to compose on, whatever was to hand. Slowly but surely I added more and more to each song until they were a mass of noise. This was probably done in the first two weeks of the project. It was then a case of stripping everything back, finding the bits that sounded good, deciding when to make the cuts, so that I had more than four songs. It was an epic task, and one that felt fairly unachievable at times.

Eventually I broke everything down into 12 phases, and these needed tidying up a lot. I also had to try and write lyrics. The remaining time before the competition submission date was a mixture of listening to rough mixes, writing lyrics, recording vocals and re-recording other instruments that I felt I could do better.

I did not manage to complete everything as I had hoped, so very slight alterations were made during the month of June. Some drum revisions, percussion and vocal re-recordings. The essence of the album remains the same, but I wanted to publish a more polished product.

I have credited all songs to my partner and I. With the way the album was composed and recorded in is impossible to untangle what I did alone, and what I received in collaboration.

Overall I’m happy with the results. The lyrical content, although sparse, has a great deal of meaning. It details mankind's interactions with nature and the consequences of our actions.

Although I did not win the competition, to my surprise, I did make the final shortlist of albums. From that list the eventual winners were taken, and as a result the album gained a "One To Watch" award for which I'm very grateful.

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released July 22, 2022

All Songs Written, Arranged, Performed, Recorded, Produced, Mixed And Mastered By A C Warren And V S Neeson At The Warless Studio Between May And June 2022

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