 Welcome to the team Emily Cooper aka "Twisted Echoes"!
We appreciate your valuable support for our mission! Check out her brilliant first review for Crew's Views of UK band Explorers! I'm in a new phase, not dazed, some new phrases Poetry set to a beat, my old rhymes had no Cymbals, but does it really make a difference?" These are the opening lines to a spoken word (I know better than to call it “rap” :-) piece I wrote in March of 2006 for a weekly online song competition called Song Fight! at SongFight.org (site still around in 2025, looking exactly the same!). I was 18 years old and had taken a few years of guitar lessons, which I knew better than to play for my several entries to that site. No--my song instead had an embarrassingly simple beat I made on the computer--one that would come in two seconds too late for each verse and chorus, as if it was started manually each time (because it was). But that was OK -- and, in fact, the whole point: that I could write a fine lyric, but had no musical prowess. The voted-on theme for that week was, "No Really", so to incorporate that, I wrote, "No really, put you to sleep like Sealy" (the mattress). Music was great, but lyrics were also important, was my gentle reminder to anyone starting out in "the biz" LOL. Did I get better at guitar? I probably could've, but no. I did not. But in a few months, I started college, and those four years were a very fruitful time for my appreciation of other people's talents. The summer before sophomore year had my mom imploring me to do something with that time. So with her tremendous camera help and my ideas, I recorded a show called Twisted Echoes. In each 30-minute episode, I gave my interpretation of 10 different songs from the 1950s to the modern era, mostly but not totally focusing on "indie" labels. I dove deep into lyrics (of course), interesting musical elements, and the background of each artist to provide context. After that, I joined the college radio station (Internet-only, so not traditionally "broadcast", but so what?!), helping DJ at school dances to the best of my ability, and also starting my own radio show, also by the name of Twisted Echoes. Anyway, I am joining Halshack for selfish reasons: I want to learn about new music again. The past is full of legends--as people of various ages will tell you--but so is the present. The music of today is only garbage if you don't know where to look (well, listen :-)! I want to learn about today's legends--and, of course, help promote them to insane levels of stardom. They deserve nothing less. Honestly, I don't know when the major stations started letting everyone down and ignoring this talent. They should feel bad about that. But Halshack took it up as his duty to fix that, and many years after he started, I'm here to help in my small way as part of the Crew. And, always, to add to my collection. :-)
0 Comments
|
CREW'S VIEWS
Unbiased reviews from our staff of quality professional writers plus music bloggers. Archives
June 2025
Categories |
RSS Feed