Chameleon Child

So not long after finishing 'The Busker' on the 4th, I began thinking about what other song I could record. I wanted something quite long, and different. It made me think of an old recording I had from 2001 time entitled 'Chameleon Child'. This song was about me feeling like a boy who was never noticed, and who just blended into the background. I was considering changing the title and sujbect matter from the song but then I thought it actually fit very well considering it was 10 years later.

Chameleon Child

Know the end of the story before it's told,
Never wanted anyones advice
Paint a self-portrait of me new,
And you stand and stare,
Let it be me, let it be you,
Chameleon Child

I have turned to my final farewell,
There is a crowd of people, and I think I am amongst them,
Acres of past and present,
Move back the pain, so many memories

Written 2000-2001; rerecorded 2011 for 'Overzealous Work Ethic'

I logged into my soundcloud profile entitled 'More Cassette Tapes', of the old cassette recordings of me, Stuart and Marc as the Heads of State. The Chameleon Child version on there is about 12 minutes long, and has Stuart in it. I listened to it, worked it out again, and began trying to record it.

After several attempts and punching and screaming at the keyboard later, I had the tune done. I then went to work on the vocals. It didn't take long to record the vocals as they are not very diificult. I then had the idea to put part of the actually 2001 recording behind the entire song. I did this and then I added some speech of Stuart and I from the 'WriCarHam'. After puting these touches to the song, I began work on adding the classical cut up samples. It again took quite a while, having look through all the files and cut them up, then place them at the right bits of the songs, edit the tone, or change the pitch, or speed it up, or slow it down. Takes hours. When complete, it sounds great. Again, like 'The Busker', it makes a more dramatic song. It has even bigger starts, stop and gaps than 'The Busker' and I think makes it quite interesting to listen to.

Obviously this is me recalling the recording process very quickly but it did take several hours to complete the song. I think it is a good piece of music, suits 'Overzealous Work Ethic' extremely well, and it had been nice to bring back an old track like this, and keep it largely sounding the way it did 10 years ago.

Watch this space,
Wullae

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