Current Demos
by Unwoman
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Digital Album
Many of these will be on my next album! Support the kickstarter here:
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This is a running collection with current demos of everything I'm working on starting in December 2010. Song poems (commissioned pieces with words by others & music by myself) and originals. New tracks will be added every few weeks or so, whenever I feel like.
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The Bridge
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The Fires I Started
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Neophile
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For The Killers
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Written In Red
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Crows
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Well Now
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Please be Gone
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about
Demos and rough mixes of current original music by Unwoman. Some of these songs will be on the next regular album, probably revised and certainly better mastered, some will not.
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released 24 July 2011
Engineered & produced & performed by Unwoman. Other details as noted per track.
Engineered & produced & performed by Unwoman. Other details as noted per track.
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Some rights reserved. Please refer to individual track pages for license info.
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Unwoman is a San Francisco-based cellist-singer-songwriter. Layered with skillful cello, rich vocals, and electronically arranged beats, her solo music is a futuristic homage to her classical training. Unwoman has been featured at steampunk, goth, and sci-fi-related events all over North America and has performed with Abney Park, Rasputina, Voltaire, Amanda Palmer, Stripmall Architecture... ... more
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Apr 2013 -
Oct 2012 -
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Aug 2011 -
Jul 2011 -
Apr 2010 -
Nov 2010 -
Dec 1999 -
Jun 2011 -
Sep 2010 -
Apr 2010 -
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Jul 2005 -
Feb 2002 -
Jun 1960
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- Track Name: The Bridge
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I pulled myself out of the rubble with no expectations or hope
Vaguely curious what lies beyond I emerged to cross the bridge alone
I did not expect to find a new dealer for desire
A new leader into the era where we’ll thrive
It was you, holding the power of light and death
As I walked West
The resonance of our minds, our sympathetic vibrations
Excite the bridge we’re on in catastrophic undulations
Your hand tight in mine
I know I will fall in deep
You'll show me your Atlantis
And teach me how to breathe
In the depths lie all the bad decisions I make
When I fall in love
But I don't want to chase the red flags any more
I just want a piece of your flawed utopia - Track Name: The Fires I Started
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I could stand here in the dark
Until they bring me a glass jar
To catch the things I want to catch
To keep a spider as a pet
I could howl up at the moon
Until the ending comes too soon
For things I used to beg to fetch
Things like you, my pet
Chorus:
And they would all see my unserious desperation
As my arms unfurl to retrieve words already spilled
All the fires I ever started can’t begin to warm me
They all got away -- not one left a trace
I will end here listening
To the sound of my own breathing
To my many accomplishments
Though you never heard what I meant
I will leave your memory
To those who see you clearly
I will not carve you into song
I tell everyone’s story wrong
(chorus)
This is the song you forget in a day
This is the love I threw away
This is the choice you forget in a day
This is the hope we threw away
This is the song you forget in a day
It’s just a crush I threw away
This is the choice you forget in a day
This is the hope we threw away - Track Name: Black Magic (Rough Draft)
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if I could save you
I would kiss you
I would run to you
I would fix you
if I could stitch their hearts
I’d collect another
all the lonely boys
I could be their mother
if it was more than the lure
of a possible fall
I would consider
breaking it all
But it is merely polar
Opposites attracting
My perfect order
To meet chaos again
still something pulls me
and I don’t want the blame
this is black magic
I can only lose this game
you ask for what seems simple
and god I love to give
but it’s impossible
you are not mine to save - Track Name: Neophile
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I love what’s new so much
I can’t tell what’s best
I’ll never have what I want --
I just want what I can’t get
(not the 1st time)
I love that you are strange
Because you are new
Because nothing not now
Can ever be true
verses:
I won’t control myself, I don’t hide
The blackness draws you in, my pupils so wide
I scare you when I look into your eyes
But this is the kind of fear you like
You’ve never met a girl like me before
You’ll never meet one again
It’s cruel for me to leave you wanting more
But these affairs are meant to end
(chorus)
We walk to your place from the center of the city
I love your accent but I don’t like the rain
One-night-stands have become part of me
You say you never do this kind of thing
If our bodies were always touching
Then we would be feeling nothing
(at least this spark is something)
My skin is wrapped
In red warning labels
But I’ve nothing to conceal
My inner truths are on the table - Track Name: For The Killers
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I am all raccoon eyes, I am peacock-colored flesh
I am supple parchment, my skin a palimpsest
In red filigree the madmen carve their illustrious names
And with clumsy blue marks in quick succession stake their claims
chorus:
No no nobody can own me
This is my only authority
My my my body is mine to poison
It is my gift for the killers to cut open
I am drying eyes, I am fading green-yellow flesh
I am brittle parchment, a bleached palimpsest
Living each wound again as a first kiss
Clasping tightly memories of myriad fists
This sovereignty is all that’s sacred to me
This is the key to kicking tyranny - Track Name: Written In Red
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Written in red their protest stands,
For the Gods of the World to see;
On the dooming wall their bodiless hands
have blazoned "Upharsin," and flaring brands
Illumine the message: "Seize the lands!
Open the prisons and make men free!"
Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.
Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.
But the shrouded Living, whose hearts were numb,
have felt the beat of a wakening drum
Within them sounding — the Dead men’s tongue —
Calling : "Smite off the ancient rust!"
Have beheld "Resurrexit," the word of the Dead,
Written-in-red.
Bear it aloft, O roaring flame!
Skyward aloft, where all may see.
Slaves of the World! Our cause is the same;
One is the immemorial shame;
One is the struggle, and in One name —
Manhood— we battle to set men free.
"Uncurse us the Land!" burn the words of the Dead,
Written-in-red. - Track Name: Crows
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I ride over rivers and mountains
Trees are covered in blossoms and mosses
To deliver my wilted body to your door
I am weighing my gains and losses
You welcome me with the look of a madman
I lose myself in your pandemonium
The bed next to the railroad shakes all night
I am systematically giving up the fight
The one who’s gone beyond and back
Has taught me to let go
Caught up in your violent thunderstorm
A branch in your stream, pulled to and fro
The bed next to the railroad shakes all night
I am systematically giving up the fight
Black birds line the path
I ride home through rain and snow
It’s always the crows who watch
Each lover come and go
The bed next to the railroad shook all night
For those moments I’d given up the fight
You are sweet, with the look of a madman
I love myself when I can’t chase equilibrium
Still the crows watch as I run and run away
I will return when the storm pulls me in again - Track Name: Please be Gone
- Lyrics by Donna E
