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Sprouting Joy

from Friendship by Jasko' Filisko & Ortega

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Sprouting Joy

CS Lewis talked about a concept that every relationship has a fatal flaw. And when a couple is faced with that fatal flaw, the choice is to love in spite of and work through those flaws or separate. The inspiration for this song came from one of those moments when my wife and I were working through one of those rough spots in our relationship.

As it was being worked through, joy started showing itself. The idea of the melody was the wrestling inwardly with reconciliation. Restoration and becoming new is where the joy comes from, becoming a new person so we can live and love again. A fleshing out of the saying love bears all things, love forgives all things. It takes a lot of love to repair all things. And that’s what had to happen to make it to make it through one of our rough spots.

One of the things I experimented with was to mirror Joe’s melody with a complementary shadow. I was able to achieve that with a plug-in called Melodyne. I used Melodyne to capture his solo turn it into midi notes. Then I found just a haunting sound called African sunrise in a program called Iris that perfectly added another layer of melodic shadow, text painting the internal rebuilding of myself once again.

I wanted to have drum solo in one our songs and I always envisioned this is the one. Another text painting of the internal struggle. It is a phenomenal solo, very unique, classic Larry. We recorded about five or six solos. He really wanted to be the one to decide which solo we would use. He was pretty busy still, so I chose the solo. When I sent him the solo I chose, he said, “Yeah I can’t believe it, I love it.” He then got the idea to add a responsive component to the solo. He did an amazing job adding extra percussion to his solo. I’m thrilled with his solo. Larry is an amazing composer and it was an honor to work with him on this project, a lifelong dream. His responsive mini solos throughout the song are amazing and fun to listen to as well.

The song is a wrestling match with glimmers hope that this could be worked through. At the end there’s a release of joy and release of hope. Joe‘s solo definitely captures that breakthrough. May it be an inspiration.

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from Friendship, released September 20, 2021

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