Song Breakdown: Dora The Barbarian

Pretty interesting instrumental. I don't know which we have more of, instrumentals or songs with lyrics. There's quite a few songs with lyrics that were never finished, but we put the instrumental out anyways because it was a cool song. Some song end up kinda just being instrumentals while being worked on, just because we take lyrics pretty seriously. This song is gonna be pumping into your being, changing your vibe if you're not already on the same vibe as the song, which is why most folks listen to music... to either change their vibe or boost it. Spiritual practice. Folks just don't see it that way because they were trained to. They're also trained to get vaccines, and ignore their natural spiritual life's calling, and go slave it to death at a job that traps you and screws you, so you can make a living, but have no life.

Anyways, yeah man, this is a cool track right here. I know folks nowadays see the word "instrumental" and get all antsy like, "Ohh, something for me to rap on!" Man, people do instrumentals because they like the sound of instruments, not the sound of you talking! That's like going to the movies so you can narrate. You'd be talking about a movie in your head, nothing whatsoever to do with the movie on the screen. And Narration happens usually when there's no one else talking, so you can hear the narration. If the instruments are talking, they don't need you twisting their words. They can say a lot more than you can. You only speak the one language at a time. They can speak every language at once. You'd have to study and really craft your words to express your emotions in a way that people would immediately empathize, but they do it on one breath, no words needed. On top of that, they sound better because of their harmonies and melodies, the team work. We dig instrumentals, all of us equally i guess, for those reasons and more... so sometimes, even though i'll get lyrics, or someone else will come up with some stuff... we read the words a few times, and it just doesn't cut it. So some songs just remain instrumentals because it fits the song more. Making music is about making the song, and letting the song be expressed... not letting you be expressed. There's plenty of folks who have ruined good--well not ruined, but they sure screwed up a few songs because they wanted to showboat their talent... which means, like every artist, there's an infinite amount of crap to get off your chest, only maybe 60% actually gets done. 605 of infinity is.... hmmm.... So i guess it doesn't matter if you just use artistic mediums to get off. YES IT DOES. Respect the art. Respect your means of expression because there have been times when it was taken away.

This image is insane, right? One good thing about having photogenic friends is that they can help you take some amazing shots. So, this song was the Jhayde and the bear, Bearnard having entirely too much fun doing what we do. Just messing with sounds, exploring mixing things and yeah. Out pops this song. Well, maybe not that simple, because I've seen Slikk in there mixing things and he'll add one cymbal hit... just one... or one note of a synth, and listen to it back like 20 times to see how that one note flows, if it fits. Raise the pitch, lower the pitch, stagger it a bit, maybe add reverb, take the reverb down a notch, take the reverb OFF... put the reverb BACK.... Charlie's not that bad. Seems like she's not that bad anyways. Slikk was messing around making a beat and did this one he called "SAHARA MATRIX", a cool little interlude thing, or it was an interlude, kinda like a mini song or whatever at the time, with this kinda arabic swag on it, but kinda digital.... and Charlie walked by and heard it and was like, "Hey, i like that. That sounds pretty rad, like a Sphinx. I have a sitar pedal..." A company called Electro Harmonix who makes this cool "Ravish" sitar pedal. Charlie's rocked it a few times in seshes and... yeah, it's pretty friggin cool. Later on Slikk put it on the bass and it was dooooooope. Anyways, they had a "lightbulb Grinch smile moment" and she went to get her working tools, they went in the lab and out came this. We were all in the Staxx listening to it, Slikk does most of his mixes in there... if not ALL of his mixes, haha... we were tripping out on this one. It's dope. So after a while they were like, "Ok, so... we have a thing here and we're gonna need you to call some people to take an epic picture for this... sooo... get on that." We were sitting around talking about the sound, what it sounds like, and Tyy was like, "Some kinda Conan Tron shit. Tron the barbarian." and Charlie busts out laughing, "Dora the Barbarian!" And that just ran. We were cracking up about Dora with Arnold's voice, yelling at Boots, with a Grace Jones Backpack, and Swiper smuggling drugs and sith vibration/frequency light sabers with Cobra Commander and Thulsa Doom... it was a whole thing. The stuff cartoons come up with is a million times worse than what the people who make cartoons come up with. Anyways, later after that, couple days maybe, as instructed, hahaa, i called up some friends, and friends of friends, and Slikk took his camera, and we all headed out and got a few shots of them doing random crazy stuff, but it was working. Krang really came thru with the props there, big time, yo. Being a general and all that, he collects weapons, replicas... bunch of war stuff.... helicopters, he had that friggin Cobra Mamba and we were trying to get Airwolf but it was a no go because they found out the rental would be to someone from Dimension X... but dig it, dude's got all types of things to invade planets. It's disturbing. Some stuff you're like, "Why does this exist? What sick twisted genius thought of that? WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK OF THAT?? A BROWN NOTE GUN?!! WORD?? I don't think that's even real, buuuuutt not willing to try to disprove it." I wonder where he gets the money because he doesn't look like he really does much, but in the cartoon world, some things you just don't want to know. Anyways, they posed for the cover and yes, it is epic. I love being a cartoon.

The lyrics are below this lovely picture which is the song/track art on the bandcamp page (where you can download it if you should so desire).

"Dora the Barbarian" - The Zephaniah Chesterfield Project

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