FAWM: "Look into the Mirror "

Look into the Mirror

1 day ago by @wehappyfew · @fourtracktape · @thedutchwidows · @fairplay · @weekendsidehustle

Look into the Mirror

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Liner Notes

This is the first international tape collaboration I’ve completed this year, and it started off its journey in Germany with @fairplay. He wrote the lyrics and recorded the spoken style backing vocals (Chris also made a very cool looking cassette case which you can see in the photo below).

@thedutchwidows went next and laid down a cool spacey sounding Casio keyboard drone which he bounced together onto one track with a bass riff. Thanks for the awesome cassette tape badges too Mike! 🤘🙏

Liam from @theweekendsidehustle was in 3rd position and recorded the picked style rhythm guitar at the same time as knocking out a tambourine part with his foot (good going mate!)

I tried to run with the slightly 60s Velvet Underground vibe that was going on and added a lead vocal melody, punctuated with a mixture of mellow slide and fretted guitar riffs.

This is very different to anything else I’ve worked on this year, which is half the fun of doing these tape collaborations!

#4track #analog #cassette #fourtracktape #spacey #drone
#1960s #spacerock #alternative #mellow

Lyrics

[verse]
when looking around
i was caught by your eyes
i tried to escape was frozen like ice

[verse]
for a moment or two
i fell simply through the widening eyes began to realize

[chorus]
look in to the mirror
look closer and try to see
if that's just an error
or it's actually me?

[verse]
what would i like to see?
all the traces are there
there are wrinkels and scars
on the top some grey hair

[verse]
I start to sink deep
start brooding around
I see myself smiling
and i try to really
and so i set out to really

[chorus]
look in to the mirror
look closer and try to see
If that is just an error
or it's actually me?

i am happy to see
the mirror with me
Happy was true
Very little was blue

[verse)
I hope for some time
we stick together
Plan for the pleasure
To meet in the mirror

[chorus]
look in to the mirror
look closer and try to see
if that is just an error
or it's actually me?

(chorus)
look in to the mirror
look closer and try to see
if that is just an error
or it's actually me?

it's actually me?
(...)

Comments

@george 19h

yes. This is a total vibe. Excellent.

@richaaaay 22h

Wow indeed. I knew within seconds I was gonna love this. The slide, the tremolo guitar, the tambourine (with the foot no less...that right there is brilliant), the lyrics (very cool and contemplative) and the VOX...All this plus spacy drone keys and bass on a four track? Masterful stuff. The ending was super cool too. You all rocked it!

@peccary 1d

This is great. I'm in my garden smoking a joint and this song is really tying it all together. That droning guitar in the background just melts in and out wonderfully.

@zecoopMod 1d

Oh wow! I *love* the style here and am totally grooving on the song. So many details and so unexpected in every way. The trem guitar and the slide set the tone, but the whole thing has such a wobbly loose vibey feel. Loved this!!!

@betoMod 1d

This is incredible! I love how many tracks this has, and how everything fits in together so nicely! An amazing mix, and an amazing song from start to that gorgeous outro!

@frenchcricket 1d

This is so fuzzy and warm and retro. A good home for the mirror metaphor given that the 60s were an introspective, mind melting time. Sounds almost like one of Velvet Underground's more poppy songs - so you nailed it with the mix. The slide guitar pulls a lot of focus (in a good way) but all the elements are very well chosen. Well done, gang!

@nadine 1d

I'm amazed by the quality of recording. There's so much space in the arrangement I get the dreamy psych 1960s vibe. The pace of this song is just alright

@thedutchwidows 1d

Wow, this sounds amazing! The tambourine and rhythm guitar parts are so understated and totally nail the VU vibe, and doubling up the vocals was genius - gives a disconcerting eerieness that suits the cognitive dissonance of the lyric. - and the lead guitar ties it all together. I love this!

@jimdgreen 1d

this has turned so well - slow laid back, just sauntering along.\

this is warm lazy sunny summer evening of a song.

@ayeahmur 1d

What a great collaboration. Love the unhurried pace. The jangle and drone, the understated vocal. And the tambourine is arranging genius! It's bang on the vibe. Love it.

@nancyrostMod 1d

A really distinctive blend of instrumentation, too. Love the doubled vox and the quiet drone with the warm and bendy guitars. You lot are making the most of your bouncing abilities and you get a very full sound. Also, starting off with backing vocals is a bold choice! Impressed how everything coalesced around that part.