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Real Music

by Carl John Franz

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1.
In Life 03:51
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2.
Sister 03:31
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3.
Fallen Down 05:01
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4.
Middle Age 04:40
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5.
Stones 04:45
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6.
Way Down Here 03:47
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7.
Apathy 04:55
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8.
The Feeling's Gone 03:40
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9.
I Don't Know What to Do 02:59
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10.
Heartless Angel 03:36
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about

In October I moved into a new place and began recording what has become 'Real Music'.

There is context to the name of this record that I’d like to briefly cover.

So many projects over the years have missed the mark in one way or another that I recently just became sick of endlessly comping in vocals, creating copy and paste music void of life. Trying to create a perfect record, a fruitless quest which always seems to end up at largely sterile music. All the details are in place but the broad strokes all end up out of place. Recordings easily become the opposite of what they set out to achieve, they stop communicating who we are, they become synthetic and lack character.

Listening to Bob Dylan and Ryan Adam’s, hearing records @ChrisDobbs made a few years ago sat in front of a mic inspired me to move away from the direction I was going in and towards just making simple records again like I used to when I was first starting out.

I’ve watched the two biggest influences on my own music David Best and Jeremy Peter Allen never get a chance or an opportunity in an irredeemably corrupt Music Industry. Some great young singers are breaking through and building audiences, Tamino, Matt Corby and Allen Stone. However, these guys often breakthrough in spite of the industry and not because of it. My conclusion is for various reasons, there simply isn’t enough real music being listened to nowadays, things really need to change.

So anyway all of this led me back to the beginning, and an attempt to record some real music. Sit in front of a stereo mic, press record and just play the songs, how hard can it be? Harder than I thought but in the end I got something half decent together and have managed to finish it, warts and all. That was the ethos behind the title anyway and that’s what the finished product is its Real Music, the way it used to be made.

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released December 16, 2021

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Carl John Franz UK

Originally from Milton Keynes, now based in Highgate, London. Combining interesting lyrics, melancholy themes, acoustic guitars, vocals and synths.

I have an exciting year ahead with lots of music and performances in the pipeline, growing, striving, searching for more music and a deeper connection with people. ... more

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