Thread: Some homemade music :)

I thought I'd share some of the music I've written and sung in the past year or two under the pseudonym Demineerija. In a lot of ways the songs are pretty dreamy, often dealing with subjectivity and psychedelic matters. You can listen to them...

...at my MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/demineerija
...or at Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/demineerija
Both sites should also enable you to download the songs you like.

I also thought I'd add some lyrics to the post, since my pronunciation/the sound quality in general probably isn't perfect.

The Dream Within

what a wonderful place
what a wonderful dream
what a wonderful thing it is
just to be with ease
in this changing and making
and breaking and taking
and clinging is just a disease

‘cause the dead will live on within
that’s where they’ve always been, anyway
and the living will fear and sin
they’ll always be doing it within
you can try to run and hide
from the darkest corners of your own mind
but you’ll always be doing it within, within
in the house of your bliss and your sin

so you see it’s a wonderful dream
in a sea that billows within
no two dreams are ever the same
but the billowing sea will remain
with its ridges and tides
greetings, goodbyes
and everything happens inside


Homemade and Braingrown

the trees around you grow inside your brain
and through your eyes you birth the rain
and you were born from what resides
inside your mind
it likes to hide
itself from you in sentences
that seem new to me

I disagree, I know I’m free
and yet I flee from slavery
atrocities and everything
that seems to me to be… mean

and feel the wave of time wipe away
these lies that always tend to rhyme
with all the things that help you hide
inside your biodegradable hide
and when you look into the sky
no need to go, you’ve just arrived
I know you sometimes feel desire
for flyin’ saucers and fine attire

but you are just a little tired
you need to have your brain rewired
you’ve got it all and it’s right here
there is no need to go anywhere
the aliens are over there
and some of them are drinking beer
and you know what strikes me as slightly weird
you are the reason why they’re there


Lullaby

I am a sailor
floating downstream
I am a smoker
smokin’ my weed
I am a gunsmith
casting the seeds of evil in me
and I am the ocean
of long forgotten dreams

Ref:
no need for goodbyes
my whole life’s been a lullaby
hey-hey, goodnight-goodnight
will you shut the light
inside my mind

I am a seeker
searchin’ my dreams
some need their beaker
as full as can be
but the old oak tree
once whispered to me, silently
the wine they are drinking
leaves them empty and mean

Oh, and here's one in Estonian, titled "Jonnakas laul" or The Stubborn Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9X-_LkDpjU

A very good friend of mine made the video. The song itself was inspired by a blind girl who painted small stones into ladybugs. The lyrics are about a man who stubbornly doesn't give up, although life hasn't had too many good things in store for him. Despite losing his wife and his job, he carries on living, selling toy ladybugs at the marketplace. Sounds kind of moronic when you try to translate it into English, or when don't know the background information.

Any comments or suggestions are obviously welcome, it's always interesting to hear what sort of feelings or thoughts this kind of music evokes in different people.

Thanks for your time and attention!

Edit:

I made the collage in the beginning of the post as an illustration to the song Lullaby.

Edit 2:

Just in case, here are the mp3 links for the 3 songs above:

http://www.eksiil.net/blog/media/use...m%20within.mp3
http://www.eksiil.net/blog/media/blo...Braingrown.mp3
http://www.eksiil.net/blog/media/blo...in/Lullaby.mp3

The Stubborn Song is my favorite.

I don't know what the music scene is like in Estonia, but it sounds like you could use with more than just the guitar/vocals. Your vocals are pretty good though.

Thanks for the feedback!

Made another song meanwhile. Indeed, they do seem to be rather minimalistic, due to limited resources, and... well... let's be honest... laziness. This one is no exception in that respect, probably won't succeed in catering to the ear used to the rich, high quality sound bouquets mixed together in studios. It is sincere, though, and I did manage to strike upon some pretty nice harmonies in the latter part of the song.

Anyway, the new one is titled Life and Love in the Milky Way.
You can listen to it here:
http://www.noisehead.com/mypage/demineerija
(You can listen to it for free, obviously... I just haven't gotten around to uploading it anywhere else yet...)

And a one, and a two, and a...

Life and Love in the Milky Way

hey you, over there
I like your hair
and the fact that you'll fade away
now don't be scared
it's just that here
in our home, the Milky Way
we lend our bodies
from the stars
and in that debt we'll fall apart
and it's not bad
and neither sad
it's just a scientific fact

...it is indeed
dee-de-dee-de-de-de-de...

Hey you, over there
I like your hair
neatly spread across our bed
I love the way
that summer day with its smells faded away
but they remain
ingrained in brains
just think of freshly cut hay
after the rain
I know there ain't a thing
to stop us from running away
in the rain
we're running away
and we'll fade away

Sounding a little better, although short. If you're interested, I'd recommend looking into writing midis and converting it to mix in with your recorded pieces. Then you could add any other instruments.

Hi again! I added another song to my MySpace page. It's called Cecilia and I think it turned out pretty well

http://www.myspace.com/demineerija
- Thanks so much for your attention!

Cecilia

I saw you in a picture, you were lovely, you smiled
but your pretty eyes had something to hide
I knew it at once, I couldn’t make it right, though
‘cause when I was born, you had already died

you could’ve married, could’ve had a child or two
grabbin’ gazes in your high heel shoes
but oh who knew what we know to be true
now… your last afternoon was over too soon

Ref:
too late, I couldn’t see ya’
Cecilia, Cecilia
too late, I couldn’t feel ya’
I guess I’ll always have my memorabilia

that’s the thing with pictures, you can never quite know
how frozen children smiling frozen smiles in a row
grow up to shoot each other just for a show
the ones who live shrug and say ‘That’s how it goes.’

a bird is an egg’s way of becoming another one
and when we finally have one thousand bombs
goin’ off all at once, blowin’ us apart
Man is Earth’s way of turning into a star