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GG

Greetings my friends from the non-localized Fourth World Radio cyber-headquarters! I am writing this today to welcome you to fourthworldradio.com and give a brief introduction to this blog, some upcoming posts that I will be adding here. As you may have noticed, FWR has recently released it's first full-length album, "Transmission: One", which can be purchased on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, Bandcamp, and streamed on Spotify (to name a few options).

My intention in these upcoming posts is to delve a little…

LUSH

This is the opening track on Transmission: One. While most people would assume that I would title a song "Lush" as a reference to a drunk, here it is really meant as a descriptive, to illustrate the fertile landscape in which this epic adventure takes place (abundant, dense, green, verdant, luxurious, opulent, overgrown... you get the picture)... but since we're talking about tropical cities, dangerous women, and bad decisions, I'm…

IBIZA

When a friend of mine glanced at the CD cover and noticed the song "Ibiza", she asked me, "Have you ever been?" I said "No, and that's what that song is all about".

First a short geography lesson for those unaware: Ibiza is an island off the coast of Spain, and is known for it's lush Mediterranean beauty, and it's nightlife and club scene It is described as "the birthplace of Balearic beat music and it's trance derivative"… essentially the origin of a large portion of the EDM (Electronic…

STORMCHASER

This song is my first real successful (?) attempt at writing and composing a very specific type of song… and a real "song" at that, with more or less traditional form (verse/chorus/bridge, etc.). In this case it was a reggae song. For a long time, I have been very into reggae music. I am into all of it's variations in style, and while sometimes the songs can get a little too political for my tastes (same with folk and many other genres... To be clear I don't downplay the importance of…

DAWN CHORUS (TRANSLATION)

We look up and see that the storm is passing us… the thunder fades into the distance and the rain dissipates. We come to… and find ourselves in a new environment. The heart of a dense tropical rainforest paradise. A cacophony of birds is building up to full swing, a surround-sound enchantment, a prehistoric symphony of abstract communication. This envelopment of sound holds some sort of primal meaning for our avian choir, though we know not what or why. It could just be a…

BURNING OFF THE WOLF

"If you would operate by means of our bodies, take a fierce grey wolf, which, though on account of its name it be subject to the sway of warlike Mars, is by birth the offspring of ancient Saturn, and is found in the valleys and mountains of the world, where he roams savage with hunger. Cast to him the body of the King, and when he has devoured it, burn him entirely in a great fire. By this process the King will be liberated; and when it has been performed thrice the Lion has…

THAT'S WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO ME

It has been a bit difficult for me to be a musician, at least the kind of musician I am. I do not have the variety of skills to really make it as a bona fide session/gigging musician. I can hold my own, but I don't do well with normal, schooled or traditional kinds of performance. Even in typically "un-schooled" genres (I can't do the Hendrix licks or blues stuff)... That's not to say I don't have influences and my style of playing came from out o the blue. Jazz…

6EQUJ5/TRANSMISSION : ONE

So, to start talking about this song I first have to ask whether or not you have heard of the show “Ancient Aliens”. If you haven’t and you are interested in the subject matter I am about to talk about, I recommend that you check it out. Ancient Aliens is a show on the History Channel (which is an interesting choice), and it is a thoroughly entertaining program, with both good points and absurd ones, all presented by an eccentric collection of pseudo-scientists and…

THE MARTINI SHOT

So here we are, it looks as if our adventure is coming to a close. The horizon we have been aiming for is slowly turning into our present landscape, and we are almost home. But… not without the final push, the last few steps that will really test the will, break sweat, draw blood and tears of pain and joy. There is light ahead and we think back one last time to all we have seen and done, before putting our head down and never looking back. Like the story arc  of  The Hero’s…