how many heartbeats (tic tic toc) music by posc lyrics/vox by oldrottenhead

[Oldrottenhead]

got two new tunes to play with from alfredo and roberto of posc. not sure what instruments alfredo played on this one but will edit the info below when i find out exactly.

Alfredo De Pietra: guitars (Godin Freeway SA, Godin ACS-SA, Gibson Les Paul, Washburn J6, Line6 Variax 700 Acoustic, Seagull Performer Mini Jumbo Cw, Tamaki 90-12S); electric bass (Ibanez GSR180); Roland GR-30 guitar synth - Roberto Maffione: keyboards, computer programming

lyrics and voice by oldrottenhead

the words

How many heartbeats
Can you have in a lifetime
How many pictures
Can you hold in your head
Watch your memories
Just fade..............

Tic tic toc
Run don't walk
Tic tic toc
Hush don't talk
Tic tic toc
Tic tic toc
How many frames
How many tears
How many cigarettes
How many accidents
How many seconds
How many firsts
How many hiccups
How many beers
How many seasons
How many lines

Etc etc etc

[Greeny]

This is a stunner - and totally original. Musically it's very complex, but the vocal adds an intimate and emotional layer than really drags the listener in. I love the way you almost whisper some of this, James. I thought it would sound good to have a kid singing the 'Tic tic toc / Run don’t walk / Tic tic toc Hush don’t talk' part. Don't know why - it just occurred to me as I was listening. This is a pretty special song in my opinion - and I have a feeling that I won't be alone in that opinion.

[alfstone]

 

I have to be sincere...I really thought that it would have been very, very difficult that Jim could find anything to sing over this track, and instead...as always before, his voice and the lyrics fit perfectly.

Jim, you have really a great talent. Bravo, bravo!!!
By the way, on this one I play the synth solos (Godin guitar via a patch of my Roland SonicCell).

In origin, the name of the track was "I'll Come Back", as always composed by Roberto, and it was about the contrast between the chaotic life in a metropolis and the different "life speed" of the country, of the land where many of us come from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYiatHb6EhA

A concept that I think will be very familiar to all of you who live in big cities, but whose roots come from a "country way of life". So, "I'll Come Back" is someway a promise, or more probably just the wish, to get back to the roots, to find a more "natural" way of life. By the way, the final part of the video has been recorded in the Basilicata hills, the Southern Italy region where I was born, and where Roberto still lives. The farmers, with their clothes, are very typical of that place.

Enjoy!  

[Geir]

This is a pretty special song in my opinion - and I have a feeling that I won't be alone in that opinion.

You're right, you're not.

The music is just fantastic. That's some seriously good musicianship put into this performance ! Love every bit of it !!

And James addition on this is not surprisingly, brilliant. There is a certain Peter Gabriel feel to both the rhythm and the feel of the music and that's always a good start for Jim's vocals to shine. And, wow, this is good !!!

You guys must get your stuff published in some way to a broader audience !!

This is just too good to be hidden in this little corner of the web.

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

A truly wonderful piece of music with superb vocals added by Jim. This is collaborated song crafting at the very top of the pile. Top notch.  Willie
p.s Italy is one of my favourite places although I haven't been further south than Sorrento, maybe I wll get to the Basilicata hills one day.

[Redler]

Another top song, today!! Great collab, guys. Real professional with brilliant sounds, arrangement and performing. Welldone, too!!

Kari

[Facemask93]

Yeah , this  is simply stunning , hauntingly majestic , supremely sublime , incredibly wonderful
                         in other words   I LOVE IT


Rob

[henwrench]

oh yea..... first class.

                                          henwrench

[Riche]

Brilliant, I love it.

Rich

[AndyR]

Wooo - I drift off for a couple of months again and things just move ON

Just finished listening to a Greeny stunner, and now this...

I love this.

Yep, Peter Gabriel... makes me think Kate Bush as well, this one... but wow, it just stands on its own.

Not sure I've come across the posc guys before - stunning musicianship chaps. And orh, well, you do stuff with vocals and lyrics that make me want to give up and try harder at the same time (that's a good thing, btw )