Moisty's Music for the Tone-Deaf: A Day in the Park

A Day in the Park

Artist: Execution Style
Album: Unsound Methods

Notes

An original composition by David Waldram and Don Anthony. Mainly a capella with a brief flute solo by Don. There is a video, not yet available. Soon perhaps.

Notice how this piece evokes the described outdoor, pastoral setting with simulated brass instruments (evocative of a marching band; an image more explicitly stated midway through the lyrics). The less transportable simulated bass is placed off to the right channel, conflicting out its own non-outdoorsiness with the simulatenous placement of the sounds of laughing, playing children in the same direction. The use of a physical instrument, the flute solo, is excusable by its inherently transportable nature and history as an instrument used by Pan, the Græco-Roman half-stag god of mirth, as well as by the human-breath source of its musical power.

Lyrics

A day in the park! A day in the park! Gee I'm glad I came today. Gee I hope it doesn't rain. Gee I'm glad I came! It's not even dark For a day in the park! A day in the park! A day in the park. Don's getting pushed on the swing, He gets an underdog. Playing tic-tac-toe or tag or Just playing in the sand. We'll start ourselves a marching band, We can walk hand in hand. A day in the park! A day in the park! A day in the park. Sun shining, birds are out, It looks like everyone is happy! Things are singing, People about, No need to pout! I got to get my head out... A day in the park! A day in the park! A day in the park. All right, boys and girls, now Don's going to play his flute for you! (flute solo) Oh yeah! A day in the park! A day in the park! A day in the park. Hey, we're out of this park! Bunch of girls...