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S​.​O​.​S. (Some Other Song)

by JC Maillard

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about

It is one of the early songs inspired by my SazBass. I find traces in my hard drives of early demos as early as 2006. Why so long? That is a familiar process for me, I work and re-work stuff (composition, lyrics and textures of recordings and arrangements) until I feel I got somewhere on all levels.
Thank to modern possibilities of audio recording and audio editing, I can capture “audio moments” like photographs, “make them do” what I want. This song is a patchwork of many of those.
For example, that’s an easy one, much of the percussion material in here comes from my recordings of an old dead upright piano sitting in a long corridor in a Manhattan apartment. Unsuitable for melodies, it offered me amazing tones of broken drums, I still haven’t explored all of them.
Another example are those keyboard chords in the verses, that I was able to capture in a few minutes between a rehearsal and a performance in a legendary concert hall. What you can hear there is something that I could never obtain in a recording studio.
These "field recordings" made independently from any guiding track or metronome are what make this track’s production so different than studio work, it contains audible artefacts of my travels and locations over years and years. So in a way, it is also telling those stories.
The song had started originally on the SazBass, with the fast part at the end and I kinda worked it backwards. One after the other, the sounds I was collecting were replacing the original instrumentation, so there is in the end very little of the SazBass in this version.
As for the words, just some other song about love lol, or more precisely "searching for love". I want to thank my talented friend Aimee Allen for helping me at the early stage of the lyrics.
Now this soundscape is yours to explore while I will be working on another one, and maybe along the way on deconstructing and reconstructing this one. Songs are alive entities, they keep coming back at me asking for a make up. I abide.

lyrics

Must be a reason somewhere
Maybe here, maybe there
Maybe the seasons prepare
Something we’re supposed to search for

Somewhat surprised you could be
To find here, to find there
Some kind of, in some way hidden
Just behind somebody’s door

Some other song, nothing new
Who cares which and who cares who
Some other guy in the queue
Asking for something to do
Let us all sing the words along
Some other hymn, some other song

Mailboxes in the lobby hall
Maybe this one, maybe there
Could their name be one on this wall?
You’ve wondered ever since you moved here

Or you could come out of your shell
Maybe this time, maybe now
And stop at everyone’s doorbell
Start a journey in good cheer

Some other song, nothing new
Who cares which and who cares who
Some other guy in the queue
Hoping that a song could do
Reach at a star high above
Somebody else, someone to …. love

Somebody knows somebody
Somebody, someone out there
Somehow, someplace, or somewhere
Somewhere you find somebody

credits

released October 6, 2023
All instruments and vocals performed by Jean-Christophe Maillard
Lyrics : Jean-Christophe Maillard/Aimée Allen
Music : Jean-Christophe Maillard

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Welcome to the home of JC Maillard (aka Grand Baton, Jean-Christophe Maillard, Mbutu), multi instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and producer from the French island of Guadeloupe, based in New York city. Traveler, explorer of sounds, he is one of the most versatile musicians out there. You will find here JC’s personal productions. As per his collaborations… well there are many, look them up. ... more

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