Deborah Thurlow
It's Not The Way
© 2007 Deborah Thurlow (634479620607) (format: CD-R)
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It's Not The Way is a song which each verse is a story within it's self. The song came to me in a dream at about 4 AM in the morning in 1994. I dreamt that I was sitting alone in a dark movie theater in front of a huge screen. The movie begins...its in black and white. A young man is sitting on the window sill of a house looking up to the sky. He gives me a glance and then looks back up at the sky and starts to sing this song. I wake up and start writing the opening words of the song I heard in the dream including the chorus. I went back to bed but something wouldn't let me sleep. I had to get up again to write down another verse of the song and then I was able to get back to sleep. The rest of the words came to me later on in the day when I was fully awaken. The longer original song has 5 verses with an instrumental interlude. This shortened song version (for music industry purposes) has three of the five verses with an added bridge with additional lyrics. I kept the opening two verses from my dream and the last verse. The verses about the single mother with five kids and the abused child I left out...the saga continues...so stand by...
ITS NOT THE WAY
Music and Lyrics By Deborah Thurlow
VERSE
He wakes up every morning,
To the sound of his alarm,
He gets out of bed,
Scratches his head,
As he walks to the bathroom,
Turns on the light,
Nearly looses his sight,
But when his eyes are clear,
He sees a different face,
In the mirror,
He asks, "What is this place?"
CHORUS
Its not the way to wake up to a day,
Its not the way to wake up to a day,
Is this real,
Or a bad dream,
Its time to let out a scream.
VERSE
She works hard at the factory,
Like generations before,
Dreamt of getting out,
Of a nowhere town,
But the people kept knocking her down,
The management said,
That the factory will close in a year,
Tears roll down her face,
Its a total disgrace,
She asks, "What is this place?"
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Our destinies seem to pave the way,
Its just that way
Still, Its not the way,
To wake up to a day,
From day to day.
VERSE
A homeless family,
On the streets of New York City,
Just burnt out,
Lost everything,
Now they're heading for the shelter,
Praying for a place,
Dreaming for a place,
Waiting for a place,
Looking for a place,
And asking, "What is this place?"
CHORUS
2 X’S
Copyright 1994 by Deborah Thurlow
Renewed
Copyright 2007 by Deborah Thurlow
All Rights Reserved
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Recorded and Produced at JAMMAN PRODUCTIONS - James Manno
www.jammanproductions.com
REVIEW CLIPS
The Horn Call – John Dressler – Volume XXXVI, No. 1, October 2005 - PATCHWORKS
…performers may find great value in the literature on this particular disc.
All About Jazz – Budd Kopman – October 2, 2005 - PATCHWORKS
Thurlow is clearly a master of this area of musical composition and performance, attracting talented composers and performers into the orbit of Turn on the Music.
Computer Music Journal – Sandy Nordahl – Volume 27 – Issue 3 – Fall 2003 – I Am
Overall, this disc is an impressive endeavor. Ms. Thurlow really knows how to create a mood that hangs thick, like a fog clinging to the ground on a cold, full-moon night."
iTunes Music Blog – Hank Shiffman – December 31, 2004 – I Am
…this album is a noble effort. Ms. Thurlow and her collaborators combine instruments that have probably never been heard together before.
I am hangs together and creates a mood and a sense of place and purpose…feels like a soundtrack to a fantasy film…not a low budget shlocky film. I’d love to see the movie that merits these sounds behind it.
Metaphysical Reviews – Richard Fuller - April 2002 – Angelic Waves – Part 1
Composer and musician Deborah Thurlow now gives us an album that can lift the spirit of the listener while at the same time, offer the perfect means to meditation. And if that's not enough, Deborah Thurlow gave this reviewer a magic carpet that transported me to a better place, all within my heart.
Electronic Music Foundation – Joel Chadabe - December 2001 – I Am
"...chooses the music that she plays to allow her to create striking timbres that range from the reflective to the dramatic, from the romantic to the brash; and as she puts it all together, she emerges with an original and strong voice as instrumentalist and as composer...Thurlow plays horn, shofar, Tibetan singing bowl, and tingsha; Eric Ross plays theremin and piano; Clive Smith electric guitar with devices ... In short, the very choice of instruments is surprising, and she uses them in various combinations to great effect."
The Horn Magazine – Ian Wagstaff - December 2001 – I Am
"Forget Rattigan and Shilkloper, this jazz horn CD, entitled ‘I Am’, is really different. Quite how different? Well, combine the Dalai Lama with Berlioz, throw in some Hebraic influence and you might be getting there. New Jersey horn player, Deborah Thurlow uses an eclectic mix of instruments...strong electronic influence." IAN WAGSTAFF
The Horn Call – John Dressler - November 2001 – I Am
"Most of the music on this latest recording is atmospheric, metrically free, and soul-searching. Sections are reminiscent of music of Harry Partch, Rick Todd, and Tom Varner; other sections are pensive, subtle, and reverberant."
Redludwig.com – George Follett - October 4, 2001 – I Am
"At times, I Am, is also a study in contrasting derivations, sounding like a curious amalgam of early Stockhausen, the tone poetry of Diamanda Galas and the soundtrack to a '50s sci-fi movie."
"The most satisfying track, Thurlow's The Chaotic World, mixes quasi-melodic string passages with the whirring theremin and clanging, pseudo-metal guitar riffs from Clive Smith. The contrasts of styles, tones and sensibilities is mesmerizing."
New York Times - Allan Kozinn - June 15, 1991 -
"The program also included Deborah Sandoval-Thurlow's `Lunch at Moishe's Delicatessen,' an amusing inventively colorful score."
Biography
Deborah Thurlow - CUNY BA, Kingsborough CC/Lehman College, MFA, SUNY Purchase - a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey is a freelance musician in the tri-state area and Europe. In 1999 she produced a two day music event, Next Horn Wave, where she got together horn players from the East/West Coasts and Europe to perform music devoted to the art of both Contemporary and Jazz Improvisation. She is presently on faculty at Newark School of the Arts. In 1995 she performed in, That New Group concert of new works in the spirit of Dada and Futurism. Directed and produced by Joanne Mafia. She performed with Eric Ross in a work written especially for her by Mr. Ross, for horn, theremin and piano called, Serenade, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Manhattan. On the same program she performed in her one act play, Horn Ritual, where she not only plays the horn and shofar using electronic sound effects she streches herself by acting. She has also performed with Pina Baush Ballet Company, Franz Kaman, David Amram, Anthony Davis, The New York Composers Orchestra, Clive Smith and many others too numerous to mention. She is on occasion an editorial contributor to, The New Music Connoisseur, a magazine devoted to the contemporary music scene.
She studied composition and orchestration with John Corigliano at Lehman College. Her works are published with Ensemble Publications/Nichols Music Company and DSM Producers. She has received grants from Meet the Composer, William Petshek Music Fund, The Puffin Foundation and also Composer in Residence at Morehead State University in Kentucky in the summer of 1988 and has been reviewed favorably in the New York Times and other printed media. Her one act play with music The Creative Void Of The Planet Earth, had an Equity Showcase of seven performances in April of 1997 by the New Media Repertory under the direction of Miranda MacDermot. She has five recordings to her credit, Angelic Waves - Part 1 (2000), Angelic Waves - Part 2 (2003 and It’s Not The Way – CD Single (2007) are independent releases and I Am (2001), Patchworks (2004) on the Capstone Records label. In 2008 she will release her recording, The Darwin Effect, with Capstone Records.