Ourself EP and Lyrics...

Hey all,

Brent here. So the guys have decided to call their first recording and EP as a band, "Ourself". We're waiting a bit to get some money together to send the EP off for CD production. In the meantime, we're trying to figure out what we want as an album cover. Nothing's for sure yet, but the prime idea circulating at the moment is an image of some puzzle pieces strewn across a table.

Personally for me, no matter how spoken-word some vocals are in some of the music I listen to, I rarely understand more than half of the lyrics. Reading them and seeing what's actually said always makes me like the songs better because I find something in the lyrics that's relatable.

Ourself EP LYRICS:

No One I Know

still it stings where once you were
and until not I'll burn
less and less each day
becoming what you made me
until you are a stone
until you are a bang
until your face is gone

you cannot be her
she was pure
who are you?

every lover takes a piece
the holes are who we are
the parts we couldn't bare to lose
when gone become ourselves
until we are a void
until we are a shell
until we are evolved
until we are a world

you cannot be her
she was pure
you cannot be her
she was sane
who are you?

you cannot be her
she was pure
you cannot be her
she was sane
who are you?


Our Gravity

we like to think we're meant to be
so we play pretend after our teens
to make ourselves believe again
that we're not broken children

but the colors don't seem to be
of the origin of our species
moving pieces desperately
hanging on to gravity, our gravity

forgetting is a way of fixing
things we can't assimilate
we find a complimentary shape
to make ourselves feel whole again

look for a hole we fit inside
call it a home a place to hide
or give a hole to someone else
and for a time you'll feel alive

but the colors don't seem to be
from the gods that we devised
moving pieces desperately
hanging on to gravity

we look for ourselves in other eyes
but our I's won't let us see
the I blinds the eye
the I blinds the eye
the I blinds the eye

but the colors don't seem to be
of the world that our I's see
moving pieces desperately
hanging on to our gravity
living in our gravity
dying in to gravity, our gravity


Siren

siren
given to
back and forth
fickle as the tide
arise a different woman
than the one I knew last night

how can you trust
her ocean with your heart
as her compass spins out of control
rocks are hiding in the dark
while Siren sings come come

perfect pendulum
given to
her impulse
her amnesia
her heart follows the wind
weather's changing all the time

how can you trust
her ocean with your heart
as her compass spins out of control
rocks are hiding in the dark
while Siren sings come come

have you heard the siren sing?
ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

have you heard the siren sing?
ooh ooh ooh
have you heard the siren sing?
ooh ooh ooh
have you heard the siren singing?
ooh ooh ooh
have you heard the siren singing?

finally our first... EP!

First thing's first. LISTEN TO OUR MUSIC! It's in the little widget player on the right side of this blog.

Wow. It's been a long two weeks. As planned, Chris @ Command Studios delivered a cut of the music last Friday, on the 5th. It was awesome hearing our music put together, but there were a few changes we wanted to make. Since then, every three days, we've received a total of 3 studio edits. Third time's a charm. It's a funny thing getting back what we all worked so hard for during the past several months. Playing music together is fun, and we're hanging out with good, lifelong friends in the process, but it's still a lot of hard work. This EP, is our end product, in line of hopefully many more end-products to come! We enjoyed playing these specific three songs the most, and it shows a good balance of what kind of music we play. A good representation.

Here's some inside information on some of the edits we went through. Now mind you that all of us are working full time jobs, and a couple of us are in school too. Everyone was able to get together for each edit and listen together. What can I say? We want our music to be good.

Studio cut #1 (2-5-10) - Drums needed to be boosted for all songs. The snare drum was a bit light and the treble needed to be boosted. It sounded more like a weak thud instead of a "crack!" like it should be. Some guitar effects and vocal arrangements were changed for the songs too.

Studio cut #2 (2-8-10) - Drums came back nicely. We did however notice now that one of the drum's (floor tom) volume needed to be raised. We noticed what we thought was "clipping" but found it to actually be the sonic quality of the EQ which Chris at Command Studios picked up on and had that adjusted also.

Studio cut #3 (2-11-10) - "No One I Know" and "Our Gravity" were good as can be. Chris this time around made a slight change on "Siren" that was a matter of taste which after a lot of consideration we ultimately reversed.

FINAL CUT (2-12-10 11pm) - Finally. Final cut of the EP. Tah-DAH!

We hope you all enjoy the music, and we'd appreciate some honest feedback. We've all worked very hard the past several months, and grew as a band. It's been a great time, and there's more to come for sure! But this is a nice, big step forward for us as a band. We're going to get our music out there, and see where it takes us.

Brent is currently working on making a music video with one of the songs from the EP with all the footage he took from the past few months. Be sure to be on a lookout for that in the next week or so.

THANK YOU ALL and stay tuned!
-MORROWNOW:
-Josh M.
-Bryan D.
-Tom P.
-Jason T.
-Brent K.

our time at the recording studio!

Hey all!

It's been a busy weekend for Morrownow. Saturday and Sunday, we put in a solid 8-9 hours of recording each day. It was a great time. GOOD NEWS, we'll get a hard copy of our finished music, a 3-song EP, from the studio by FRIDAY! That means we'll have new music up on our myspace, facebook, here - Morrownow.com, and on CDs soon! Brent's planning to cut the video footage he shot at the recording studio into a music video with the music from the EP. Keep a look out for that next week.

Brent, our personal friend and manager now has his opportunity to really get our name out there. Next week, as soon as we have copies of our music, he'll look into getting us some gigs at local venues. He now has a demo to give them! We are especially looking into The Dragonfly. It's a bar and music venue in Hollywood, our hometown. He's also planning to get in touch with college radio stations around LA to get some radio playtime. We'll see what happens with all of that. Right now, we are extremely happy to have our music recorded. It's just one first step on a list of things we'd like to accomplish as a band.

FOR NOW, here's a short sneak peek at our time from 2 days in the Recording Studio! Enjoy!

Sneak Peek at Morrownow in the Recording Studio from Morrownow on Vimeo.