Back from... IndieTracks!

The concept of this EP was born somewhere somehow at a certain point of history durning my permanence at IndieTracks Festival 2010. After so many inspirations only 5 ideas, some sort of ghost-songs survived on a little space of my moleskine agenda, to become real songs right the very day after my arrival at home from London.

Everything was written, recorded and edited in 8 hours. I felt the urge to share the spirit of twee music, my experience in the festival, and the gist of what I believe writing songs shoul be: let your soul out to play in the yard with some friends.

Here you are. You can download the EP from here...

Tiny Tide - Tweening Everyday

Enjoy

The Hot Spoto

Beside me and Porlock talking about anarchy and suicide in music like philosophers on pizzerias, these were important days for our bands. Last week we had our first meeting with a new Tiny crewmate called Franz Spoto. Double bass and BRILLIANT guitar player, not only he's ace in playing both instruments, but he REALLY like our songs, he enjoy playin... and he LOVES Brit Pop! Too good to be truth!

I was smiling my heart out when we played "BYE" for the first time like we were on your for months, and "ONE" had a whole new relevance with the deep double bass notes. In other words: with Mike Leffe new genius inventions on his attempts to be like Case (from Les Fauves) and Manuel getting better and better on bass (and now back to violin too) do expect great surprises from us! That is true unless what told my friend Robbie Pop happens to be true and it was all in my head. Time will tell. Hopefully the New York one :)

Ventriloquists And Covers

I know I know. I should keep my head down, pull my socks up and work hard on "Febrero" pre-editing, but people around me got so enthusiastic when I suggest I could have worked on a cover of Lou Reed "Sweet Jane" that I really couldn't resist but givin'it a try!

Of course, since ever version I heard, even from Lou, seemed to be different in some unique way, I changed the lyrics trying to picture our days through the eyes of me living with this band and stuff, and here's the result:

Sweet Jane (Lou Reed Cover) by tinytide

"'was waiting for the big time
No money for a Leffe
in case you forgot it
you're playing in a band
while the World outside is freezin'
nobody seems to care
you had your little husband
I've got my heap of sand

Takes patience to be no one
can't tell you never tried
still nothing on the broadcast
you hope you're still in time
she's sharing smiles to socials
and sex to other guys
and yes another promise
pronounced just for fun

Your leather jacket replaced for white
turning shoulders to crowds
Lysergic rainbows on junks
made the femme fatal sing

I reall loved your whispers
did never need a whisp
avoiding rotten places
will keep us out of reach
the song is nearly over
your ordinary trip
by killing all the dealers
she's still my heroine"

We Are The Animals (We Are The Hipsters)

I was always fascinated by the useless effort of Phill Collins on 1985 Live Aid on trying to play on both sides of the World flying from Europe to America just to be in time to singing in the choir of relevant artists chosen for "We Are The World" big choir.

Having in mind to do a protest song to defend a cause (I was trying to write a tune against the killing of the animals "just for fur"), some friends of mine suggested me:"Why not trying to justify all the worst things in the World we keep on doin' just because it's fun?".

So I did! The song is a clear response to "We Are The World" kind of dysneian hypocrisy, trying also to include all the possible musical genres into less than 4 minutes just like different animals on a crazy zoo.

Thast's what you get.

We Are Animals by tinytide

"I think I'll take my learjet
and fly to the Moon
fly high fly got to be there soon
gotta run
There's nothing left on Earth to hold me back
Not just a toy, not just a girl or good
I could use

I clutch my bloody fur
'cause your heart is cold and you just couldn't wait
goin' head on your way like not knowing

We are them all
we are them all
Dead meet in the mall

We are the animals
Everyday we shit on Earth
We are the animals
Unevolved wild life forms

We are the animals
Everyday we kill our hopes
We are the animals
Savages without a cause

The planet just a grey ball
with zillion of lights
new clear sights still to feed
An educated wildlife
grew leaders of change
waiting for us
to trade aids
I think I'll start to warm
'cause the heat will rise as I will join the choir
and pretend I'm good as we'll start singing

We are them all
we are them all
Meet them in the mall

We are the animals
Everyday we pee on Earth
We are the animals
Unevolved wild life forms

Come on come on you farmville freak
Got a brand new dance called poison leak
let the river know that you're in the flow
be the illest bloke of this dying world
Gotta wake up now to the alarm clock
Hear this nature call from volcanic rocks
it's the requiem for the Sir Sebastian Bach"