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How Many Miles Beyond?
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First song of FAWM 2010. Composed and performed using natural rhythm only
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Jazz-influenced progressive rock.
artist is a middle and high school science teacher residing in Sterling, VA, USA. He switched to teaching after a career in medicinal chemistry. He is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, a Native American tribe originally indigenous to the Southeastern United States. As a musician, he plays bass, guitar, Hammond organ, keys, and various drums. Many of these appear on his first album, , it focuses on a jazz-influenced rock sound; however, like , it is almost exclusively built using odd time signatures (such as 5/4 and 7/8). In this way, although it was born in a different world, it retains its connection to the past. One more move: this time to a new house. It was a difficult change, and out of the struggle was born a new sound. is just that: a collection of jazzy, funky, cool -- and most of all, original -- compositions. In addition to the works above, Bruce is also on , where he releases raw (unmixed) tracks from his albums and other works for use by remix artists.
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Charts
Peak #280
Peak in subgenre #73
Author
Bruce H. McCosar
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2010
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February 01, 2010
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MP3 4.2 MB 128 kbps 4:31
Story behind the song
One of my favorite books is the collected Amber stories of Roger Zelazny. There's always a line I remember . . . "How many miles to Avalon? None, I say, and all." (This is of course related to the nursery rhyme "How many miles to Babylon", source of the term "Babylon Candle" in Neil Gaiman's "Stardust".) Anyway, the title . . . I guess you could say this is a song about how the familiar places in life grow strange, and in many ways more distant, with time. Certainly I feel that when I go to my home town (LaFayette, GA). This song was composed and performed using natural rhythm only -- without a metronome, click track, or drum machine. "No Robots Allowed" is my theme, and here are the rules I'm following: http://bmccosar.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/the-robot-rules/
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