RADIO VOLUME 1
Lyrics are further down this page.
Radio Volume 1 is AVAILABLE at ITUNES and SPOTIFY. Family and friends already downloaded songs and the album from those platforms.
The entire CD is for sale at those sites, but is free at this site for a limited time. Not sure how long I will keep it free at this site.
To find the CD at ITUNES or SPOTIFY simply go to those sites and search "Brian Fusonie." Again, the title is "Radio Volume 1."
Find it FREE here at my web page at this link.
http://brianfusonie2011.com/WAVE DOWNLOAD.htm The Standard Audio CD Files.
A color demo and a PRINTER FRIENDLY white and lettering version of the DISC LABEL.
http://brianfusonie.com/Had Enough (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/No More Lies (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Treasure Troved (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Peripheral Vision (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/05 Old Photographs (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/06 Salt Shakers (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Maybe Tomorrow (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Think About You (Master) 1.m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Universe (Master) 1.m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Potter Wheel (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Spiraling (Master).m4a
http://brianfusonie.com/Rachel Weeps (Master).m4a
When I was 14 years old I purchased a cheap imitation Gibson Les Paul from a Sears catalogue.
I dreamed of owning a real Les Paul someday with that same Sunburst coloration.
I dreamed of making music and writing songs for God, and being on the radio.
Now I own a real Sunburst style Gibson Les Paul and I am using it to record this Radio Volume 1 music CD.
I made rough drafts first. Then I recorded them again with a producer.
Rough drafts do become real sometimes; and a catalogue cheap guitar also became a real wood and guts guitar CD.
When I was 18 years of age, my AP Art drawing teacher assigned to the class "self portraits."
My drawing was later chosen the best drawing from MA in that year (1983-84) Boston Globe National Scholastic Art Contest.
The emphasis then was on Realism.
Now I want all my music to be "Real" "Art."
http://brianfusonie.com/Old Photographs.htm
Yet I have fun with designing quick child-like art that is also "real," only it does not look it.
It is like that first guitar I had as a youth.
What your children draw might be better "art" than you think.
Does it convey a "real" message?
To which CD does each of the following quick drawings refer?
LYRICS TO THE SONGS ON RADIO VOLUME 1:
HAD ENOUGH (American Faith) :
I've had enough of feeling this rust. I've had enough of being caught in a rut.
I've had enough of being kicked to the dust. It's now time to do as we must.
Yes its is true, I need you. And you know I believe in you.
Yes it is true what we knew. And still this time I believe in you.
I've had enough of feeling this pain. I've had enough of walking away.
I've had enough of times that I strayed. It's now time to act, not to pray.
I've had enough of feeling this way. I've had enough of waiting on your reign.
All the lies they call 'truth' that they feign.
I don't see things the same.
NO MORE LIES (Back To Eden) :
Don't tell me lies, I cannot believe my eyes. Do not wear disguises, on the road that's winding
Home ... is where the heart lays, I cannot let my mind stray from Home.
Running uphill, it feels like we are standing still. Each step we take feels like on more mistake.
In the end it will be the love we made, when it is time to awake, don't be late.
There will be no lies, no hidden disguises. Time to run so fast. It cannot be the last
Second of time, the clock unwinds. Our lives intertwined. Will you be mine?
TREASURE TROVED (Back To Eden) :
Where is your treasure, where is real "art"? Who writes the music we hear in our hearts?
What is your reason, who is your Cause? What is worth writing when the end comes?
Where is your treasure, where is your heart? I've been trying to make real music, give love a new start.
Where are the answers, where the proper trust? Do as they prosper? Or do as we must.
Where is your heart, there is your treasure trove. A good measure pressed down and overflows.
Just as the beginning, that is how you will know. Love is the answer to make that garden grow.
Where is your treasure, who is your hope, where is the place you call your home?
Who writes the questions we have in our thoughts? More valued than anything you have bought.
Where is your treasure? It is more than mere pleasure.
And more than empty paper that does not make the world safer.
A good measure overflows, pressed down and now exposed.
Tell me, where is your trove that stands when the strong winds blow?
PERIPHERAL VISION (Animation Nation) :
Peripheral vision, take a look around. Peripheral vision, see what is going down.
Peripheral vision, photos I gave to you, synthesized to prove the way we are made by you.
Peripheral vision, take a look around. Peripheral vision, see what is going down.
Peripheral vision, shadows in my eyes synthesized to prove the way of Truth, not their lies.
There will come a day when all will learn to pray, the good old fashioned way
When all the earth did say: "That is how we are made."
There will come a day, when the earth comes of age. All will know the way,
And just how we are truly made.
OLD PHOTOGRAPHS (Animation Nation) :
We are dancers in old photographs, review the past, be aware of where you are,
Of where we are going. Coils like thoughts, they unveil the time, break through the lines
Of sand castles, capsules, we are unraveling. To move forward, we must remember the past.
Times will change, only the just will last. A nation that forgets its sacred trust, will fade to dust.
As the ocean bed washed away the sand and the underplay.
Scripture warns it a thousand times, nothing will last that is out of line.
Song is like a time capsule, it captures the moment full,
For a child's eyes, there can be no lies.
We are dancers in old photographs, review the past, be aware of where you are,
Of where we are going. Frame after frame, designed then drawn,
From morning to night, from dusk to dawn. Knit together by a mighty hand,
Restore this land of sand castles, capsules, we are unraveling.
The ocean bed will wash it all away, the underplay,
Far away cities will feel your reign.
SALT SHAKERS (Animation Nation) :
Be the earth's salt shakers, sprinkle others with your light.
Be the earth's salt shakers, tenderize the world right.
Be the salt of the earth, help every child be given birth.
Sprinkle the earth with your light. Time to season this world right.
In the darkness, light shines the brightest.
When times are bland, salt makes it finest.
In the desert heat, water is most precious.
When the earth is passing, days are most treasured.
Be the earth's salt shakers, sprinkle the world with your light.
Be real salt shakers, season the world right.
Be the salt of the earth, share the truth that you heard.
Be the earth's salt shaker, stand alone, not be one of the herd.
MAYBE TOMORROW (Animation Nation) :
Maybe tomorrow, we can find the time. Maybe tomorrow, it's always tomorrow,
It is always more lies. Why think of today, when the morning comes.
Maybe tomorrow we will wash our hands in the open tide.
Maybe tomorrow we will look beyond all these endless lies.
Why think of today when the morning comes.
Every night, did I pray to you in vain? Every night, did you hear the things I say?
I'm tired of waiting to see that beautiful day when all our tears will cease and dry away.
Maybe tomorrow, we will see eye to eye. Maybe tomorrow, when we live to never die.
Why think of today when the morning comes.
Maybe tomorrow, we will see the ashes rise. Maybe tomorrow, under a blood red sky.
Why think of today when the morning comes.
THINK ABOUT YOU (Potter's Wheel) :
May we be one people. May we be one family.
Brothers and sisters all are we. Together let us make this history.
Brothers and sisters all are we. Together we can build that story.
May we be one living tree. May we be one living seed.
Brothers and sisters all are we. Together we can make it there, you'll see.
Brothers and sisters all are we. Together we can build that dream.
When I close my eyes I think about you.
When I close my eyes, I dream of an earth that is true.
When I close my eyes, I long to be there with you.
When I close my eyes, I dream of an earth that is new.
UNIVERSE SONG (Potter's Wheel) :
Magazines, paint brush lies, a natural woman on the cover hides behind,
"Be real," she says, "Be yourself." The fabled lines they taught her to sell,
She sold herself to sell her bitter pill. Now she is lost and needing someone else.
Novelties and bad advice, she's worn out about every disguise,
"Be real," she says, "Be yourself." Coins and costumes instead of real math,
The things she does do not add up. Now she's lost and clings to someone else.
Contra-connection, she's thrown out perfection. She thinks she decided 'when there is life.'
'Standard of living,' she's not even giving. Who tries to correct her 'will pay the price.'
"Not by the color of one's skin, but by the quality of your life."
She pretends someone else paid her price. She calls that her 'quality of life.'
She thinks she is the Universe. She's been a curse, thinking she writes the words.
She thinks she is the Universe, have you heard?
She's got her own spin, she spins in reverse.
She thinks she is the Universe. She's been a curse, pretending she defines the words.
She thinks she is the Universe. She's got her own spin,
She spins everything in reverse.
She's been a curse, thinking she is the Universe.
POTTER WHEEL (Potter's Wheel) :
Brick by brick, stone by stone, together we lay the foundation.
At the Potter's wheel, hands watered in mud, is the Author of our needs, our sacred Trust.
Brick by brick, in the furnace of love, the clay hardens in your hands for all you need done.
At the Potter's wheel, all your hands have made. Piece by piece, your foundation is laid.
Which way will they turn? Tell me which way will they turn?
Sometimes I hear your voice whisper to me. Sometimes I hear your voice call me in from the cold.
Sometimes I hear your voice, and then you're gone.
Brick by brick, stone by stone, at the Potter's wheel refine earth, make it your home.
Each turn of that wheel, your hands watered in clay, to fashion a love of a brand new day.
Which way will they turn? Tell me which way will they turn?
Sometimes I hear your voice whisper to me. Sometimes I hear your voice call me in from the cold.
Sometimes I hear your voice, not what they have told. Brick by brick in the furnace of your love,
Mold me in your hands watered in mud. At the Potter's wheel make us refined.
Remember the promises you signed.
SPIRALING (Potter's Wheel) :
There is a spiral staircase that leads through this place, from humble beginnings it was made,
By the hands of many builders who sought your will. No guile was among them, only men who climbed that hill.
From floor to ceiling, from head to toe, forged in the furnace of your love. With sweat on their brows,
At serenity's pace, those poor humble servants constructed this place.
There is a spiral staircase made from lines before of women and men who tried to obey your holy words.
Their trials and tribulations, their mistakes and insights, form the spiral case that rises through the night.
For honesty's sake they fought freedom's fight, not scared of the darkness because they were light.
With hearts that abandoned the world as it is, and fought for the freedom that others might live.
Shape the wood of our prayers, mighty God. Shape the wood of our prayers into one.
Shape the wood of our prayers, mighty God. Shape the wood of our prayers, mold our lives into one.
Spin us round to round, round and round, into that spiral staircase to the sun.
RACHEL WEEPS (Potter's Wheel) :
We can turn and walk away and close our eyes to all we see,
But we will never change the way things are from the distance we now keep.
'Run, run away,' turn to where you think you're safe, and never learn to listen to the Truth.
From where I stand I just can't see how we can 'choose' to let them bleed,
When the stones will cry out for their blood. Have you ever stopped to wonder why
In living fields a child should die? When the stones will cry out for their blood.
Choose life! We can turn and walk away and close our eyes to all we see
But we will never change the way things are from the distance we now keep.
'Run, run away,' turn where you think you're safe, and never learn to listen to these words:
"It was you who formed my inward parts and knit me in my mother's womb
When there my sole (soul) you knew well." And in your Book will be written all my days,
As you had planned when I was made, and for everyone you do the same. Choose life!
*More songs and the lyrics will be posted each week.
PDF CD Booklet: http://brianfusonie.com/Radio Volume 1 CD Booklet.pdf
STUDIO NOTES:
8/13/18: The song Think About You (see above) was altered from the rough draft, when the producer challenged the sound of my rehearsed lead at the end of that song. I then simply played a new lead from feel in the studio. It came out better, I think. Thanks to the producer, John, on that change.
The CD will be a good project, I feel. 12 of the 16 songs on the Demo. The best ones. It will be recorded one a week - budgeting both of our time and money. The cost of being a poor art-ist. When it is finished, it will be released.
8/25/18: Recorded Potter Wheel today. John is good on drums. And helpful producer. The song is ecumenical. Those who listened to it today liked the recording and the lyrics. The Booklet was also well received.
8/26/18: I forgot to mention that while John plays the drums, I perform all the other instruments: guitars, bass, piano, vocals, and on a later song I will play the harmonica. I think the audience plays different musical instruments, so I like to incorporate those different instruments into my songs.
9/1/18: Recorded Spiraling today. John got me to rerecord the piano after finished because I felt I should have recorded it after the vocals. I replayed the piano to fit the lyrics better. I may record the piano after vocals on the remaining songs.
9/8/18: John got me to think of adding string orchestration to the chorus of Universe today. My longer notes about the song are at the News And Notes page.
9/15/18: Recorded two songs today with John, a ballad and the other rock. I may have to later adjust the vocal volume in Rachel Weeps. John helped me arrange the intro to Treasure Troved.
9/16/18: Spoke with John the producer and he agreed to adjust to vocals in Rachel Weeps, and reduce the cymbal crashes in Treasure Troved. Easy to work with. Those changes will be made before the final CD is printed.
9/29/18: Recorded Maybe Tomorrow and Peripheral Vision today with the producer. He said Maybe Tomorrow might be his favorite so far. Likes Peripheral Vision also. I am very impressed with his drums in each, and fun to work with.
10/6/18: Today was Had Enough, and remixed Rachel Weeps and Treasure Troved. John was excellent to work with, and we are now two songs from finishing the CD. See my notes about Had Enough at the News And Notes page.
10/13/18: CD is FINISHED. Had another good session with John, the producer, recorded Salt Shakers then Old Photographs. He especially likes Old Photographs. Now is the production of the CDs after final mastering as Wave files. We liked working together and John asked to do another project of my songs after this one is produced. We'll take a rest, then start Radio Volume 2nd. See my note about the second CD at the News And Notes page.
http://brianfusonie2011.com/WAVE DOWNLOAD.htm
For those who want the larger CD Audio, press the WAVE DOWNLOAD link.
Compare to the rough draft demos at the links below. More songs will be posted.
Here is one draft demo. http://brianfusonie.com/Think About You.mp3 (See final up above)
http://brianfusonie.com/Radio.htm (*This is the rough demos link)
COMING SOON, AMERICAN FABRIC at this link:
http://brianfusonie.com/American Fabric.htm
Also Coming Soon, Radio Volume 4th:
http://brianfusonie.com/Radio Volume 4th.htm
A FINAL STUDIO POTTER'S WHEEL WILL BE RECORDED.
http://brianfusonie.com/Potter's Wheel.htm
RADIO VOLUME 3rd is started, songs will be posted at this link:
http://brianfusonie.com/Radio Volume 3rd.htm
RADIO VOLUME 2nd.
Songs and lyrics and CD Booklet are posted at this page link:
http://brianfusonie.com/Radio Volume 2nd.htm
Radio Volume 1 is AVAILABLE at ITUNES and SPOTIFY. The entire CD is for sale at those sites, but is free at this site for a limited time.
To find the CD at ITUNES or SPOTIFY simply go to those sites and search "Brian Fusonie." Find it FREE here at this link.
http://brianfusonie2011.com/WAVE DOWNLOAD.htm
These two links go together. One is on prayer, and the other is brief notes (often daily) on current affairs,
law, scripture, and music written in prayer. I pray daily, but I do not always write notes that day.
http://brianfusonie.com/Prayer Links.htm
http://brianfusonie.com/News And Notes.htm