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by Janice Whaley

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    Patchwork Life Digipack CD

    Includes CD, 12 stickers of album art

    Pre-order includes immediate download of 5 tracks in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or other formats. A link to the complete album will be emailed to you the moment it’s released.

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After doing 71 covers on The Smiths Project last year, I was ready to work on original music. These songs were created in a similar recording style to The Smiths Project, with layers of vocals making up all instrumentation including drum beats, strings, synths, choirs, etc. but this time, with the addition of piano samples on a few songs and, in one case, a drum machine and bells. That's it. These layered-vocal tracks take months to piece together and edit into arrangements. I will be posting videos and snippets to let you see how the music is created.


Album Title
I called the album Patchwork Life because of the many distinct elements of my life that have come together to make up who I am- and make the music what it is. Growing up, I had a quilt on my bed that my grandmother made from my mother's old 70s clothes. Each square was so completely different, bold, and colorful. Nothing matched, yet the over all effect was cohesive and deeply personal. The quilt mirrors my musical attempt to honor the many aspects and extreme differences of my life- real vs.online, acoustic voice vs. digital editing, motherhood vs. music dreams, sleep vs. finishing an album... to take all these elements and use what ever is around me to create something new.

Artwork
The artwork represents what I see when working on music every day: waveforms. Since my music is made up of acoustic voices stitched together digitally, I spoke each song title into ProTools, took snapshots of the waveforms and then embroidered them onto fabric using ProTools track colors as my palette The album art consists of an embroidered physical representation of my voice for each of the 11 song titles as well as the album title. I will be posting the corresponding art piece with each track as they are completed.

Patchwork Life's track listings (in no particular order):
Sugar and Fire Ants
Megalodon
Built My World
Haunt Me
Buried
Tunnel Vision
It's Not You, It's Me
According To A Liar
The Unusuals
Integratron
Collapse and Dissolve



Thank you for supporting the music that I have worked all year to create! XO Janice

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releases 26 April 2012

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Awarded San Francisco Bay Guardian's 'Best of the Bay 2011' and SF Weekly's 'Best of San Francisco 2011,' Janice Whaley ... more covered every song by The Smiths in one year, using only voice as her sound source. Each song has between 30-50 layers of voice and took more than 1300 hours to complete.

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Track Name: Integratron
**All instrument sounds (organs, strings, background voices) were created by Janice's voice except for drum machine and bass line. Additional low voice by Josh Cadwising.**


INTEGRATRON

You set up the pinwheels
And prayed for gale forces
As heat from his anger
Still lingers and courses

I sat in my armchair
Eyes shut to the dust storms
As earthquakes and bombs
Share acceptance as part of the norm

You sang us a song
Of right and of wrong
Of this goes there
That should be

Always fearful
When others sing discordant song
'Cause you know
You don't know how to sing along

You don't know how to sing along

Integratron
Integratron
Integratron
Integratron and on and on


Climb to the top of Big Rock
Wait for news while they're
Gazing at stars
(they've got none on thars)

The aperture spins
Slowly round and round
As positive ions
Build up, reclaim this chance as found


Integratron
Integratron
Integratron
Integratron and on and on


Vibrations of my voice
Bounce off the walls and funnel
Down through my core
Inform blood and bone of what's in store


Integratron
Integratron
Integratron
Integratron and on and on


Knocked my tears loose
From a twenty-year stall
Track Name: Buried (teaser)
BURIED

Working hard in the afternoon
Slave away and rhyme
My body will feel it soon
But that's just fine by me

I see the purpose
I know the 'why'
It all comes down to this
Long awaited night

Watch and wait
He's getting closer now
All this work
I hate and I know how to cope

Long live me
I am victorious
She is free now
Today is glorious

Driving fast into my plan
A bullet glitters the highway
But did he know? Did he understand
I had the last word to say

Watch and wait
He's getting closer now
All this work
I hate and I know how to cope

Long live me
I am victorious
She is free now
Today is glorious

If you're wondering why...

I did it all for her
You know I did it all for her
Track Name: According To A Liar (So Long, Goodbye Dreamer)
According to a liar
All his life was grand
He told me of a wire
He walked across on his hands

Maybe it's true, Maybe I see
I'm not like you, My life's not free

According to a mother
All her dreams complete
Inside there was another
Part of her asleep

Maybe it's true, Maybe I see
I'm not like you, My life's not free

According to a lover
Never thoughts of you
But smiles can never cover
Desires burning through

Maybe it's true, Maybe I see
I'm not like you, My life's not free

Oh, so long, goodbye dreamer
So long, goodbye dreamer
So long, goodbye dreamer
So long, goodbye dreamer

Think
Think it over

Think
Think it over

Think
Think it over

Before it's all over