MUSIC BY ROBERT LOERZEL
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Streaming files of four songs can be heard at www.myspace.com/loerzelmusic

	guitar and vocals
	WHILE THEY LEAVE BRUISES	A political song, first written in 2004, revised in 2005. (No, I'm not a prophet; I added the reference to the storm.) LYRICS
	THE SAME STARS	Written and recorded in 2004, voice and guitar into one microphone, with starling sounds added later. LYRICS
	HOLD YOUR PEACE	Written and recorded in 2004, another one-microphone recording, with piano dubbed in. LYRICS
	IF YOU KNEW	At my sappiest. Or perhaps not. 2003 recording. LYRICS
	WHEN I HEARD YOU SING	In which I attempt to sing like a girl on the middle verse and chorus. 2003-04 recording. LYRICS
	piano
	MAGYAR POSTA PART 1 MAGYAR POSTA PART 2 MAGYAR POSTA PART 3 MAGYAR POSTA PART 4 MAGYAR POSTA PART 5	After hitting upon the opening chords of part 1, I figured out a scale that would work for improvising off those chords. At first, I thought I'd discovered a new sort of scale, but consulting a book, I saw it identified as the "Hungarian gypsy folk" scale. (It's essentially the minor scale with a sharp 4th and a major 7th, resulting in a cluster of three half steps that resembles the blues scale.) The rest of this suite springs from that scale. Part 4 has a set opening and ending, with an improvised section in the middle. I have little idea how closely it resembles real Hungarian gypsy folk music, but I chose to name it after the Hungarian postage stamps I once collected as a boy.
	instrumental and experimental
	EAST OF HERE (MECHANICAL VERSION)	2003 recording of a piece that I normally play on piano as an extended improvisation in a certain Eastern-sounding mode I stumbled upon.
	BETWEENBRAIN	An old sequencing experiment. Not sure what's happening in this, really. A couple of programmed note loops with live notes played on top. I was leaning on the pitch bender. Echo and reverb added more recently.
	EXORCISM OF FORESTS	An old, old four-track experiment. A sequence of four sampled sounds looping, backwards piano and an electric guitar playing something like two notes. It was much longer, but this excerpt is plenty long enough.

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