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This is one of the oldest songs in my repertoire, originally composed in 1986 when I was 14. I composed it on a crappy Casio keyboard (almost a toy, really) which was the only musical outlet I had at the time. For posterity, I scored the melody and chords on staff paper, along with some other head candy and probably I recorded it to cassette, although that is long gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never gave that composition a title, but when I was searching for inspiration for new material in 2005 I came across the sheet music for the songs I wrote as a teen, and this one was the first songs that I picked out to work on. It struck me because the chords sounded melancholy — exactly what I was feeling at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I produced the new version, I was lamenting the fact that I hadn’t seen my daughter in some months and I deeply missed those times when I would read to her at bedtime and kiss her on the forehead. So the song became Lullabye<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The score had a melody and a more verse\/chorus-like structure which was not suitable for the tone I was going for, so I dropped those in favour of more percussive elements and a smooth pad overtone. Only the chorus sequence was kept. To top it off, I inserted audio from a home movie I took of my daughter when she was two that took over all the quiet portions of the track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The finished piece really captures both the dismay of being apart from my child and also the joy I felt in remembering the time I had spent with her. It also explains why I added samples of her into the track itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lullabye (Demo, No Dub)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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This is the original version of the, without the overdubs I added later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n