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Mandeaux Rex, The Celestial Dragon
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The story of a brave knight saving his princess from the evil Mandeaux Rex, a celestial God-Dragon.
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
Song Info
Genre
Electronic Synth-Pop
Charts
#464 in subgenre Peak #4
Charts
Peak #74
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1987, 1989, 2007
Uploaded
July 16, 2009
Track Files
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MP3 5.8 MB 128 kbps 6:16
Story behind the song
"Mandeaux (pronounced "man-duss") Rex, The Celestial Dragon" is a Futuristic Sci-Fi/Medieval Fantasy story about a Brave Knight who has to save his Princess from the clutches of the (hyper-intelligent) super-beast of the Title. Some 17 Years after I written and recorded this track, I did something on a whim: I 'Novelized' this same song into a 'novel' (about 180 pages). Everything in the song is in the Novel--but there's a plot twist concerning the Brave Knight and The Dragon. Anyways, N-Joy this "Future-Medieval" story, told to a techno-funk beat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Friday, June 19, 2009 @ 5:24 pm For the past two years, I've been working on a Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra "concept-album project (in serial form)" called "2087-UNITED PLANETARY FUNK". In most of the tracks, the story's "villian" makes his presence known with the phrase, "Dear, Blue World...Naive..Young and Innocent". In the song "Ambassador Stellar", said villain has been revealed to be none other than Mandeaux Rex himself. See.....after 20 years, there's still lots of life left in this character. Stay Tuned!!
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