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Dream Woman - EP

by Monarcadia

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Dream Woman 07:55
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Dream Woman... Dream Lady... You're the wealth of love, fictional miracle. I've found monomania sells in song. Dreams can remind us that we're all alone; although, I never want to return to the dawn. Dream Woman... Dream Lady... Come on, we brooding lovers know you've got to go, but we still hold on: mad beggars until we die. So long. Where you go from here on I don't know, but I know we'll be better without your laws. We don't ever give up on our side. We don't want to be taken by your nothingness. Go ahead and give up on my side, 'cause you can't take away my art, Heart.... No wonder you're dead inside: we have filled you with our loneliness. Now your marble head is trite, you can't take away my nothing. Dream Woman... Dream Lady... You can't take away my heart.
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Daydreamers Anonymous [Naked Version] 07:30
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Sun shining through my bedroom cave of daily escape. She's smiling and now my wings are broken, left to fade in these nightmarish wet dreams--a face that haunts my pretty daze. I can't sleep; my lungs are failing waiting for you to say, "I'm dreaming of beautiful things. I'm not scared of a diamond ring. I can live with my feelings of love and stuff the pop songs sing of," 'cause I keep dreaming of you and me, I keep sweating, and I can't sleep. Tell me you love me and please don't leave your light on where the fiends can see you. Let me sleep and never see you now. Facebook stalk to pretend we shared a memory. You may want another hit of fiction for your brain. My back hurts: I'm coughing from all the re-hashed analogies. I wonder what it means that we all have got a craving for someone to say, "I'm dreaming of beautiful things. I'm not scared of a diamond ring. I can live with my feelings of love and stuff the pop songs sing of." I'm so loving I'm going cliché. Pop metaphor is the only way. Someone recycle me, throw me away. I wonder: can you medicate me? Who would want to medicate someone with love, when love's a so-called "drug," a line abused in songs? I think it means that we're all lonely, lonely addicts. I keep dreaming of beautiful things. I am scared of a diamond ring. I can't live with my feelings of love and stuff the pop songs sing of. I keep dreaming of you and me. I keep sweating and I can't sleep. Tell me you love me and please don't leave your light on where the fiends can see you. Let me sleep and never see you 'cause I'm so loving I'm going cliché. Pop metaphor is the only way. Someone recycle me, throw me away. I wonder: can you medicate me? Who would want to medicate me? Who would want to medicate me? You wouldn't want to medicate me. I don't want to dream anymore. No, I don't want to dream about you.
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Enter the Chrysalis: Love is a Chemical Madness 12:42

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Teaser EP for the forthcoming "To Die : To Sleep" full-length.

At this point I'm still recording into the FourTrack Multitrack Recorder for iOS app on my iPhone 5, since I don't yet own a computer.

NOTES:

Dream Woman

The melody of this song's hook came to me while I was hanging out with my sister Addy in Albuquerque. We were talking about that American cliché of going to Europe and having a storybook romance there, and I started singing "dream woman" to myself. Later I thought I'd develop it into a song that explores and critiques the "dream woman" trope in pop songs. Romantic love is obviously one of my thematic obsessions. The synth tones were made on my iPhone (Animoog for iOS). The drums were a beat I constructed with the Microsampler.

Daydreamers Anonymous

A song I've never quite gotten off the ground, in my view. This is called the "naked version" because it was a rough Voice Memo recording of me on the piano in my grandma's house, singing through my Roland Cube Street. I wrote the song back in St. Louis in 2013, and it's always sort of been on one of the back burners of my catalog, so I decided to release some version of it at least. Continues themes of love in the digital age that began back in 2012 with Don't, Don't.


Enter the Chrysalis: Love is a Chemical Madness

An experiment in linear, multi-tracked sound collaging, involving some bits that I played live (the piano parts and some of the water sounds), recordings I had made earlier using the Voice Memo function on my iPhone, recordings of old songs I had written with old friends, playing these old recordings through my iPod Classic, and recording them into FourTrack when I wanted them. The whole thing took about 3-4 hours to complete. I would love to make more things like this.

credits

released April 30, 2015

Alaric López: vocals; piano/keyboard; guitars; sampler; pedals; Animoog iOS; typewriter; monologuing; misc sounds (water, rain, splashing in the sink, water bottle, smashed lightbulb in plastic bag); Yoko Ono-style screaming on "Enter the Chrysalis"; performance of Hugo Ball's "Karawane" on "Enter the Chrysalis"; laughter.

Addy López: Crank and "ready" on "Enter the Chrysalis"

Genie Wallace: Yoko Ono-style screaming on "Enter the Chrysalis"

Marisol Contreras: reading of "El baile de los tecolotes" / "Dance of the Owls" in Cuentos: Tales from the Hispanic Southwest

Diego Martinez: scream into a drum on "Enter the Chrysalis"

Tevin Reynolds: "Yes I need that!" on "Enter the Chrysalis"

"Enter the Chrysalis" also contains a clip from a documentary on hip-hop that I found on YouTube while making this song, that I can't for the life of me find now to credit. I will update this if I find the source.


Thanks again to my mom for letting me use her computer to upload my music! Love you!

All songs (music and lyrics) written, recorded, performed, and mixed by Alaric López between Albuquerque, NM (September 2014-November 2014) and El Paso, TX (December 2014-April 2015) except for excerpts from the following songs found within "Enter the Chrysalis: Love is a Chemical Madness":
"Gorgeous Girlz" (co-written by Alaric López and Sidney Johnson--a.k.a. Midas Bison, & recorded in July/August 2012 between Eugene, OR and Madison, WI)
"Shimmer" (co-written by Alaric López and Colin Keating--a.k.a. Young Hound, & recorded in Eugene, OR in January/February 2012).

Cover art and logo design by Alaric López.

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Monarcadia is musician, intermedia artist, and poet Alaric López.

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