| Being Julio Iglesias |
[Jan. 4th, 2008|11:03 pm] |
As I spoke about in this post, I am now plying a trade as a professional serenader. My first job assignment has taken me to Japan - though I am still waiting for proposals from other countries abroad (I can perform one on one, at parties, weddings or funerals). So here's the album of cover songs I've recorded to illustrate this latest (de)evolution of my work. I am trying to shed my previous image of being "the post-modern Bryan Ferry" and am now trying to become "the post-modern Julio Iglesias" instead.
(Red wall dedicated to Alin but in the end this cover is just a poor man's version of Digiki's latest album cover)
Track list
1 - Wishing I Was There (Imbruglia/Thornalley/Campsie)
2 - Let's Stick Together (Harrison)
3 - Glycerine (Rossdale)
4 - You (Yorke/Greenwood/Greenwood/O'Brien/Selway)
5 - Sing (Healy)
6 - Roxanne (Sting)
7 - We Only Come Out At Night (Corgan)
8 - I'm Only Sleeping (Lennon/McCartney)
9 - Qualquer Coisa (Veloso)
10 - Life in a Glass House (Yorke/Greenwood/Greenwood/O'Brien/Selway)
11 - Bullet Proof (I Wish I Was) (Yorke/Greenwood/Greenwood/O'Brien/Selway)
12 - Out Of Time (Albarn)
bonus track
13 - Business Time (Clement/McKenzie)
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I'm aiming at the pop charts here and I'm positive this album will crack the top 10 - in Tonga, San Marino, St Kitts & Nevis, Faroe Islands and Brunei (at least I will be able to emulate Phil Collins and play a private gig for the King of Brunei this way). Some of my old fans might feel betrayed but I'm trying to lure to some new faces to my side and this album is of tremendous value indeed, something that was planned to provide an extra incentive for the new fans. By adding this song collection to your music library, you're getting four albums for the price of one (even though it's free to download it): an MTV unplugged, a greatest hits album, a mix cd and an album of covers.
But actually I have a few very personal reasons to release this album at this point in time.
Firstly, the budget of Coma Berenices went completely haywire so I'm trying to cut costs here and be a good employee to my record company by playing it safe.
Secondly and more importantly, this album represents my own version of Rock 'n' Roll as I am currently going through a Lost Weekend away from my Yoko Ono (which has been very tolling on both of us) and, to make matters worse, I don't even have a May Pang around to provide me with comfort.
Anyway, enough talk and please enjoy it. Or maybe not, because I have already been physically attacked twice by mad Dzima fans who are unhappy with my recent work so I'll just post this as friends' only to save face from internet embarrassment. |
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| Anderson Bruford Dziminski Wakeman Howe |
[Jul. 19th, 2006|10:12 pm] |
Dzima releases third album, Coma Berenices
( larger front & back cover )
Songs:
1.
Sirius Patrol
2.
Coma Berenices
i. The Great Bear
ii. The Lernaean Hydra
iii. The Enthroned Woman
iv. The Healer
v. The Camelopardalis
3.
Tesseract
Concerto for Violin Ensemble, Guitars, Bass and Ring Modulator
4.
Undanceable Tango
The story behind this concept album is as follows:
The year is sometime around 2070 or later. Somewhere in the North Pole, a woman, Berenice, is dying and Serpentarius, her lover, and an Eskimo shaman are trying to save her.
Rewind now to Britain (a country occupied by China and her allies since the last war) a few weeks earlier and we see how Serpentarius rescued Berenice from her werewolf fiancee by killing him with a silver bullet. By doing that, he upset the queen and the government with whom Werewolf Man was a close and influent friend (a Rupert Murdoch of sorts) so they both have to escape. They steal a boat and launch themselves into the deep seas.
Whilst on the boat, Serpentarius discovers that Berenice has been infected with her dead fiancee's lycanthropy but still hasn't fully become a werewolf. He knows that a secretive monster, Taniwha, who lives hiding in Tuvalu can help her so they set sail for to the South Pacific.
In a bid to escape the British-Chinese army and navy, our two lovers decide to sail along the coast of Greenland and Canada, through the North-West Passage. They lose sight of their pursuers but things are not as fortunate as they seem for Berenice's health is rapidly declining and she could become a werewolf at any minute. To add to their troubles, they encounter a Great Bear, whom Serpentarius kills, and a Lernaean Hydra, a nearly invincible creature from which Berenice suffers a fatal blow. Serpentarius manages to escape, barely alive, carrying her body in the snow when he finds the already mentioned Eskimo Shaman living in a four dimensional igloo. Using his magic, Shaman cuts Berenice's long hair and throws it to the sky, where it reaches another constellation. In return, the stars send him a small special rock that has the power to revive her. When in contact with the fallen rock from the sky, she lives again and shaman gifts the couple with his genetically modified polar giraffe to help them get to the Pacific.
It is a race against time. Serpentarius and Berenice continue on their journey through the Pacific Ocean, hoping to reach Taniwha before Berenice's transformation is complete. They get to Tuvalu and manage to find the ever elusive reptile-like whale monster whom, surprisingly, actually agrees to help. Berenice however, has already turned into a werewolf. She attacks Taniwha and he ends up eating both of them.
The End
dedicated to the late ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cap_scaleman, who died at the tender age of 18. Oh wait, apparently our Eskimo shaman is going to resurrect him in five weeks time...
written and recorded by Dzima at Statler Studios, Sydney, June/July 2006
ps: even if you downloaded all of these songs before, please do download them again because they have all been slightly tweaked with and remastered.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. |
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| if Bryan Ferry had gone glitch... |
[Feb. 4th, 2006|11:54 pm] |
Dzima releases album. It's called Skill.
Tracklist:
01. Pepero - remixed by CeckJ
02. No Not No, Brad - Ignition remix
03. The Sex Twig in your Cochlea
04. Rokujizou
05. Jealous Guy - Easy Rasta remix
06. Voices from the Other Side
07. French Unconventional Piece
08. Krk
09. Shimogamo
10. I'm Going Crazy
written by Dzima except track 2 written by Duckworth/Breek, track 5 written by John Lennon and track 10 written by Billy Corgan.
recorded at various points in time between July 2002 and January 2006 in Tokyo, Saitama, Melbourne and Sydney.
cover artwork by Dzima
contributors/collaborators/acknowledgements:
Ceckj (aka maxim_shubski), Brad Breek, Robert Duckworth, Sasha Baron Cohen, R. Kelly, sparkligbeatnic, Ross Bencina, John Lennon, Carlos Isabel Gala, the ANZACs, Billy Corgan.
Disclaimer: (to quote our friend Marxy) this album has no trade value whatsoever which makes its use value very low, if existent at all. |
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