teenage masquerade

ok i couldn't resist uploading these songs, though they far from being finished

http://download.yousendit.com/5D3AB59666049681
The first is Teenage Masquerade. A song about everyone's individual loneliness in life from time to time.
Anyway what I do like about this song is the unexpected. :) It opens up with an asian instrument, the guzheng, and fades into a Spanish guitar, blending the two styles together. And the guzheng gets the solo later on in the song instead of the standard acoustic guitar. It's a little longish sounding now due to the lack of vocals, but I love the string swelling work and instruments. Pardon the electronic drums and fake keyboards instruments for now. They will be substituted in with real musical instruments in the final product, along with vocals of course :)

and this song is about as un-ronin as i could have gotten haha!

played by Munir on guitars, and strings arranged by Leonard Soosay, Caleb and myself. enjoy pls!

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http://download.yousendit.com/1FC56A070A71E604
For now I call this NEw World Lanjiao, the counterpart for new world cheebye.
Neither of which will ACTUALLY be called such but yeah, for now it's lame and ...well..lame :P

Anyway, I LOVE the drum work and guitar work on this. Done by the Syed/Dong combo again. I love the way they made everything sound so vicious and hungry.
Look out for the triplets at the very end of the song

There are a few mistakes in the solo due to it not being finished (The last note into the C Chord), and this version isn't the one with the actual final solo. But I couldn't resist uploading it anyway.

This song is about all the stupid emo kids who cry in their corners, weep about life, cut themselves to prove how cynical and jaded they are about the world, and basically about how self-sympathetic they're being while people in other parts of the world die of, oh, small things like poverty and political wars. If life is so bad, kill yourself already. It's not that hard. heh

"Goodbye my love
Goodbye to you, goodbye to everything beautiful and true
Surrender, surrender my heart
surrender my life for you"