Shorn Brown is the one and only "pop song" on the Newbeams album. The lyrics are autobiographical and involve me walking around at odd hours of the night with my baby sleeping in a wrap against my body. Another piece of context is that I cut my hair and beard in early February when the family got lice (yuck!), and lost my natural "scarf" and "hat" that had been keeping me warm through the winter. To make matters worse, the baby was freaked out by my radically different appearance and wouldn't look at me for a few weeks! (He got used to me eventually, though, and I got used to the new temperature constraints).
Tuning: 37-EDO.
Time: 15 beats per long-measure (divided 7+8) at 95 BPM.
lyrics
Shorn Brown went walking
What am I made from? he wondered
Clutching some baby whose eyelids twitch in time
These wrinkles these wrinkles
On the forehead of waiting for something undefined...
Shorn Brown is thinking
This is a puzzle, this living
Luna is hiding; the houses still are there
These evenings these evenings
What has Shorn Brown been eating?
The future in a hair
This album is an absolute gem - it sounds bright, refined, texturally variant, and rich with life. So much effort clearly went into this with the vast number of instruments and overlapping lines, though it all sounds effortless and completely natural. I enjoy singing along with the sing-along book! If you don't think this album is interesting, I can't be friends with you. My only superficial complaint is that I wish a lot of the songs were longer! That said, I love almost EVERY moment in this! Stephen Weigel
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This album has made me appreciate microtonal music even more and these tunings add so many unique and exceptionally satisfying colors. This is an amazing listening experience from start to finish and I can't wait to hear more. You're one of the first microtonal artists I got to discover and it feels great to hear all these new sounds that break out of the 12 EDO sphere and the creativity that comes with it. Xaltegk