Philadelphia – ExperiMental Music

Watching The Past Go Past

Posted on July 16, 2017July 17, 2017 by admin

LYRICS
Watching the past go past
And, it’s sure going fast

How sure is your footing on the precipice of the future
How sure? For sure?
Watching the past go past
And, it’s sure going fast

Presently I consider the present a present
The recent present won’t persist
No, it won’t last
Men, grasp it while you can!
Before it passes to past
Watching the past go past
And, it’s sure going fast

Did you notice the crowd
It’s loud!
A mad dash to the finish line
3, 2, 1… then, you’re out of time
3, 2, 1…
Then, you’re done

Watching the past go past
And, it’s sure going fast

Watching The Past Go Past Music Video 1.mp4

Watching The Past Go Past – Part 1.mp3

Watching The Past Go Past Music Video 2.mp4

Watching The Past Go Past – Part 2.mp3

Watching The Past Go Past AltMix Video.mp4

Watching The Past Go Past AltMix.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: E E7 Em7 / G A E
Recording: live digital 1-track stereo

Written and recorded at the First Amendment Monument and the Liberty Bell in Independence Mall, Philadelphia, PA.

Vocals, Guitar

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

LYRICS
The music’s on the pier
The time is growing near
Check? Check! Double check… soundcheck
Backstage pass in the grass
Scent of Mother Nature fills the air
It’s everywhere
All to the festival
Say, “Holiday!”
(All in all festival)
They’ll show you the ways to the best of days
When the band starts to play
Your troubles melt away
All the kids having fun watching girls dancing in the sun
Raise your hand if you understand
Raise your hand! Be counted
Raise your hand! Be heard
Raise your hand! Be anointed
Raise your hand! Spread the word
1, 2, 3 for glory
Aware on the Delaware
What did Delaware?
A New Jersey

Festival Pier.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written on Delaware Avenue while waiting for a concert at Festival Pier in Philadelphia, PA.

Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em / G A Em / Em G A / A G Em
Recording: digital stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

From the album The End Game
by Daniel Brouse

God’s Odds

Posted on March 9, 2017 by admin

LYRICS
The odds are 1:1
Coming undone
No need to flip a coin
Inevitable
The way things are goin’
Irrefutable future
No road to misery
For our destiny

The Gods are/our one to won
Come together
Under the sun
Forever
One believer
Got to move past
The fork in the path
Promised land at last
Within grasp

God’s Odds.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Protest Folk Rock
Chords: E / A G G D A / B7

Vocals, Guitar, Organ

Written in center city Philadelphia and the corner of Gay and Church Streets in Chester County, West Chester, PA.

From the album Gay Church

A Big Hand

Posted on November 2, 2015November 2, 2015 by admin

LYRICS
[audience cheers and chants “One more song!”]
Please let me hand it to…
I’d love to hand it to…
I’ve got to hand it to you
Let’s give a big hand to you for all that you do!
Let’s bring tears to their ears with cheers
[audience reaction] Louder! Poof! Magic POW-der!
I’ve got to hand it to you
Really love what you do

A Big Hand.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F# F#9 F#m
Rhythm: 136 BPM / 6/8 Ballad
Recording: live 1-track digital stereo

A song inspired by Nick Filone and Joyceanna Worrall Filone’s contributions to the Philly music scene.

Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg, Korg N364, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, Korg Mli software)

From the album Fall Into Place
by Daniel Brouse

Intersection of Penns Landing and South Street

Posted on June 4, 2015 by admin

INSTRUMENTAL

South Street and the Intersection of Philly.mp4

Penn’s Landing and the Intersection of Philly.mp4

ABOUT THE SONG

Written and recorded at the intersection of South Street and Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Daniel — Guitar

From the album Speechless
by Daniel Brouse

Sign Of Our Sine

Posted on May 30, 2015May 30, 2015 by admin

Songwriting In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA

Sign Of Our Sine Music Video.mp4

Sign Of Our Sine.mp3

LYRICS
If ya need to clear your head
Better off going back to bed
Instead of rants in a rage
About your self-imposed cage

The sign of our sine wave into the future
The time for our sign is now and evermore

Regretting the things you said
Should have gone back to bed?
A victimization rationalization
Victimization rationalization

The sign of our sine wave into the future
The time for our sign is now and evermore

ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 3
G E G
E A D

Written and recorded along West River Drive and the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The sine wave or sinusoid is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth repetitive oscillation. It is named after the function sine, of which it is the graph. It occurs often in pure and applied mathematics, as well as physics, engineering, signal processing and many other fields.

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Observe Absurd
by Daniel Brouse

Rush Hour Traffic

Posted on May 15, 2015 by admin

INSTRUMENTAL

Rush Hour Traffic.mp4

ABOUT THE SONG
A A+g A7+f
E G D A
G E D A

Written and recorded at Penn’s Landing and South Street, Philadelphia, PA over top of Interstate 95.

Daniel — Guitar

From the album Speechless
by Daniel Brouse

All You Zombies

Posted on March 1, 2015March 9, 2015 by admin

This was written by Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian
made famous by The Hooters

Intro: F G Am F G Am F Em C A

(Dm)Holy (Am)Moses met the (C)Phara(G)oh
(Dm)Yeah, he (Am)tried to set him (G)straight
(Dm)Looked him in the (Am)eye
(C)”Let my (G)people go” (F) (Em) (C) (A)
(Dm)Holy (Am)Moses on the (C)moun(G)tain
(Dm)High a(Am)bove the golden (G)calf
(Dm)Went to (Am)get the Ten Com(C)mand(G)ments
(F)Yeah, he’s just gonna (Em)break them in (C)half! (A)

(Dm)All you (Am)zombies hide your (C)fa(G)ces
(Dm)All you (Am)people in the (G)street
(Dm)All you (Am)sittin’ in high (C)pla(G)ces
(F)The pieces gonna (Em)fall on (C)you (A)

(Dm)No one (Am)ever spoke to (C)Noah(G)
(Dm)They all (Am)laughed at him ins(G)tead
(Dm)Working on his (Am)ark
(C)Working all (G)by himself (F) (Em) (C) (A)
(Dm)Only (Am)Noah saw it c(C)om(G)ing
(Dm)Forty (Am)days and forty (G)nights
(Dm)Took his (Am)sons and daughters (C)with (G)him
(F)Yeah, they were the (Em)Israel(C)ites (A)

(Dm)All you (Am)zombies hide your (C)fa(G)ces
(Dm)All you (Am)people in the (G)street
(Dm)All you (Am)sittin’ in high (C)pla(G)ces
(F)The rain’s gonna (Em)fall on (C)you (A)

(Dm)Holy (Am)Father, what’s the (C)mat(G)ter
(Dm)Where have (Am)all your children g(G)one
(Dm)Sitting in the (Am)dark, (C)living all (G)by themselves
(F)You don’t have to (Em)hide (C)any (A)more

(Dm)All you (Am)zombies hide your (C)fa(G)ces
(Dm)All you (Am)people in the (G)street
(Dm)All you (Am)sittin’ in high (C)pla(G)ces
(F)It’s all gonna (Em)fall on (C)you (A)

All You Zombies Remix.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Skin Of Your Teeth
by Daniel Brouse

Protesting The Protest Song

Posted on December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 by admin

LYRICS
Can I attest I protest your protest
Because your protest is lame
Have you gone insane?
This protest is lame

Even if it’s just me that thinks they can see
That this protest needs protesting
And, in and of itself this is interesting
There still needs to be more… more protesting
More sanity, clarity in what it is we want to be
What it is we want to be

It’s time I’m
Going to protest this protest
(Unless we can get it together)

If we don’t stand up and protest this lame protest
We’ll only become less and less… and less and less
Unless we protest this protest

Unless we rise
Unless we realize
Rise
We’ve got to protest this protest
Test the protest
Unless we become less and less

It’s not so much a matter of whether…
We need not confess
It’s much more a matter of whether we become less and less
Unless we protest this protest
Or, become less and less

Here comes the interesting part
… it’s all about you
Do, de, do, de, do-do

Protesting The Protest Song.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Bdim Bm and other B variations / Ska 100 Beats Per Minute

Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers

Production And Engineering — Live 1-track stereo recording. Casio WK-3500, MicroKorg, Alesis controller/laptop/Korg software, DigiTech vocal effects, clean vocals through a Sennheiser microphone, Beringer mixboard and Tascam digital recorder.

From the album Jungled

The Good Samaritan (Inhumane)

Posted on November 20, 2014November 22, 2014 by admin

LYRICS
The good Samaritan
Thinking he’s humane
But doesn’t grasp the stakes
And how utterly inane
Repeating the same mistakes
Again and again and again

The good Samaritan
Thinking he’s humane
Not considering consequences
Or how ultimately lame
Try on the circumstances
Applied to 1… 5… or 10

Then you’ll know when

After a mile in his shoes walked
Let your talk be talked
Until that time, please refrain
‘less your good deed be deemed inhumane

The Good Samaritan Video.mp4

The Good Samaritan.mp3

ABOUT THIS SONG
Inspired by misinformed Good Samaritans trying to defend Arnold Abbott and the feeding of the homeless. See: Arrests for 90-Year-Old Man Who Feeds Homeless Myth

Chords
Am D
C D

Daniel — Vocals, Guitar

From the album Out Of Touch
by Daniel Brouse

Sweets

Posted on October 23, 2014 by admin

LYRICS
Lolli Pop Ice
That’s nice
Popsicle fill
Still, room for….

Sweeeeeeeet
Sssssss

Sweet breath of life
Bang your drum
Ummm… breathe into your fife
Breath of life
Wanna feel some?

Receive some
Relieve some
Then, some?

Sweets.mp3
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — B B7

Combo tempo includes 119 Beats Per Minute Casio Wk-3500 Ambient 3 with MicroKorg special Electronica tempo, too.

Written and recorded in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Daniel — Vocals, Keys and Synths

From the album Dawning Of The Day
by Daniel Brouse

Philly Naked Bike Race

Posted on September 7, 2014September 7, 2014 by admin

LYRICS
Sitting on the Parkway
Waiting for the naked bike race
Wondering how far away… sitting on the Parkway

Give the shirt off you back to keep pace
Gonna picture some nudes at the Art Museum
… I am!

Will there be boobs flapping in the wind
Will I see the jubilation within
Will their seat get stuck to the seat
Will they be naked from head to feet?

Give the shirt off you back to keep pace
Gonna picture some nudes at the Art Museum
… I am!

Can you sit still on that bicycle
I wanna get my fill
Bicycle, bicycle thrill

Philly Naked Bike Race Song Music Video.mp4

The Naked Bike Race.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Chords — Capo 3
E A
B7 A E
D E

Inspired by the Philly Naked Bike Ride (PNBR). Written and recorded live on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the Art Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.