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The Lighthouse is Everywhere!!!



 

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This debut album is far out, both out to sea and across outer space, written and produced entirely by a single person, 23 years old, with no less than 13 instruments under his belt, with the his motto of cute but ambitious. With 18 songs across the seven seas and above the many galaxies, listeners will embark in an hour and fifteen minutes worth of 8 bit computer music with country twang, electronic pop wonders, sea shanty style outer space songs, Regency period weather dramas, and jazzy extensions. Basically what a normal Gen Z person writes.  Want to explore the sea but still want to go to space, look no further than the space themed shanties such as "Runaway Asteroid", an electronica song that explores the fan frenzy over a superstar in the year 4000 A.D., "Satellite Shanty", a song about working on a Satellite, combining ship horns and bells with space age electronics, and "The Day The Band Broke Up", a song about the budget cuts in the American education system. "Dammy Delusional's I Want Song" is a parody of delusional aspiring artists of the present day who think they have it all, as well as a parody of the classic 'I Want' songs used in musical theater. "Tribal Dance Craze" is a reggae song, filled with strings, Erhu, Organ, and African drums, with the middle section and outro containing several overdubs of his electronic ambient noise and recorder flute file, with sound manipulation patterns of forward and reversing as well as tracks sped up twice the speed to create a jungle ambience. Songs such as "Bravery or Fear" evoke a jazzy edge, combining the jazz trio with video game electronics, changing time signatures, and lyrics about dystopias and people ignoring others' warnings. "Swaying the Air", a song about a 19th century British man named Selgen who wants to prove to his friend Steven that he can control the weather, fuses our current Regency period obsession with our electronic obsession to create the sensation of Selgen's forward thinking mindset. "Wedding Day" takes on a bluegrass folk guitar intro before shifting to a pounding, 80s style rock machine, with a chiptune bridge and a Latin Samba instrumental section and a bluegrass ending, with lyrics about an insane woman who is obsessed with her acne faced boyfriend who wants no business with her. Songs such as "Laurenda" and "Highland Mandolin" evoke the standard country pop odyssey, while "Raven Revolution" combines old time fiddle inspired music with 8 bit twang and digital drums. "Dolphins in Paradise" takes inspiration from a boyband sense, with lyrics about a young man who is in love with his L. A. girlfriend.  "The Wise Owl Song" takes on an experimental approach, with several sections, starting with a Broadway style piano ballad in the first verse and chorus, a techno theme with 8 bit arpeggiations, a bluegrass section for the second verse and chorus, back to the techno theme, than the bluegrass theme which then spews into a dizzying barrage of numerous delayed steel guitar pitch bends at once, forwarded and reversed, grinding reverberated distorted sheet metal sounds, and a jazz trio with 2 piano tracks and diminished scale walking bass layered on top of the fiddles, acoustic guitars and cajon. The song then transitions into a 3/4 western folk style ballad before concluding with a techno section in A minor with melodic excerpts of the Dies Irae, as well as from Bach and Mozart. And finally, a blues song about the clumsy lighthouse inventor himself in "The Flying Lighthouse Song", who flew a time traveling lighthouse in the sky but can't find his way back home in the present, which leads to a disarray of history as in the instrumental, "Warppede", which leads to his girlfriend breaking up, as in the concluding song, "Bread and Butter Guaranteed". DADDY LOOK! It's the Flying Lighthouse is a perfect album for anyone looking for a modern hallucinogenic musical experience, written by a Gen Z man who loves a great thrill. Whether this album makes you gain or lose your knowledge, leaves you perfectly normal or leaves you saying "Where am I"?, is up to anyone's perspective, listeners won't want to miss on this exciting journey.

Links to My Songs

Runaway Asteroid

An Electronica Song About Running Away in Space

the reaper's race:

 

An ambient instrumental that simulates a race in a paranormal racetrack.

Skipping Stones:

An Piano and Vocal Song

For the upcoming Great American Wall Crusher Album

King Jupiter's Coronation March:

 

A Video Game Style Song
for The Eclipsed Lamp Album

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About:
 

Aaron Berns is an award winning songwriter, composer and multi instrumentalist whose music fuses a wide array of genres, such as classical, jazz, country, musical theater, chiptune, world, and experimental music, with some featuring his own animated music videos to go along with the songs. His performances and compositions were played throughout the continental United States, such as David Friend Recital Hall and Cafe 939 in Boston, Muscle Shoals Studios in Alabama, Power Station Studio in New York City, Buzzmill in Waco, Texas, Scotty's in Bay City, Michigan, Proof 22 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, WMFO radio in Medford, and most recently, in Los Angeles, California where he performed with some of rock's biggest legends, such as The Police's Stewart Copeland, The Doors' Robbie Kreiger, and The Rolling Stones's Skunk Baxter at the legendary Viper Room and Whiskey a Go Go. 

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