VOYAGE→MEDLEY

NEW SOCIETY [1st verse]
New Society - New Society - New Society
I am looking into a new society.
I am trying to think of a new society.
I don't know what it will have, but it won't have this...
THE BEACH [1st verse]
The first time I stumbled on the beach in your eyes,
My bucket was empty, love, but I had arrived.
And right then I was ready to build castles to the skies,
Because I knew it was a lucky man
Who gets to play on that golden sand, love.
LIVING FOR SUMMER'S END (FOR MELISSA) [1st verse]
Like blinkered horses
But more like people paralleled by pride
We spent a long time walking side by side.
And yet it seems I simply live to see you face to face
And reel under the magic wreck of your embrace.
STAY WITH ME [1st & 2nd verses]
This is the heartache of my heart,
Here is the wound and here the smarting.
This is as well my well of joy,
Here is my luckiness employing me.
Though in the sunlight I've often played
This has been well-used too, this row of shade trees.
Where is your cradle and your last bed?
Here with these same notes my mother led me through.
Does sidewalk parquetry make you play?
Yes, and I'm dancing from grey to grey
Because when I move the tune chooses to stay with me.
26 MONTHS BEHIND [2nd verse]
She was a girl not of my world, but steeped in intuition.
She'd feel her way if night followed day -
Logic seemed burdened and puerile.


VOYAGE→medley
(Medford)

Leslie Medford: All songs and sounds.

Among my earliest compositions, in medley-order they are the 17th, 12th, 6th, 1st, and 3rd songs in my canon.
Written and recorded: various, between 26 April 1980 and 21 July 1981.
Edited and remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Publishing: Browbeat (BMI)

Except for the last (which wasn't), these are snippets from songs which were included whole on the 'Work-In-Progress' cassette album, released February 1982. These are the best parts! There were many mistakes made in the performances, but also many technical problems occurred in the recording of each, making the full versions more tedious than they might have been. Approximately 21 minutes of total time has been reduced to just over 7. I feel able to condense them here on Voyage because better full versions appear (or will appear) scattered elsewhere throughout my releases. Bring on the outrage (!) but I am happy with this medley and would refer you to the better-realized versions if you happen to like the snippet included here.

Three of these songs were inspired by the young lady in the passport photo. The same three - The Beach, Living for Summer's End, and 26 Months Behind - are from my very first 'recording session' on 26 April 1980 with Tim Clark (a Stanford friend) running a borrowed 2-track reel-to-reel in Palo Alto. The previously-used reel of tape, the machine, and the inexperienced engineer, all contributed to extremely flawed recordings, the reason I feel a snippet is better than the whole.