The Time Machine (Instrumental)

Chris Truelsen

The Time Machine (Instrumental)
Performed By Chris Truelsen
Album UPC 889211897513
CD Baby Track ID TR0001943060
Label Woof Gambit Records
Released 2015-10-07
BPM 87
Rated 0
ISRC ushm21584745
Year 2015
Spotify Plays 11
Songtrust Track ID 1003892
Writers
Writer CHRISTOPHER D TRUELSEN
Songwriter ID 220587
PRO ASCAP
Pub Co CD Baby Publishing
Composer CHRISTOPHER D TRUELSEN
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceOne Stop
Publisher Admin CD Baby Publishing
Rights Controlled Master and Publishing
Rights One-Stop: Master + 100% Publishing
Original/Cover/Public Domain original
Country United States - Indiana

Description

Marvelous Scenes from Your Wildest Dreams is a collection of songs that evoke stories and pictures. Each song is a story, a marvelous little movie in your mind. Drink this marvelous beverage with your ears and ENJOY, Marvelous Scenes from Wildest Dreams!

Notes

Our dreams are strange and wondrous things. Sometimes in a fearful fit we hope to wake up because something strange is happening, but we can’t. We try to run faster or say a word, and then we realize we’re caught in a dream. Or maybe something really good or exciting is happening, something we really want to see through to completion, and then of course, we wake up. That’s how dreams work.

Marvelous Scenes from Your Wildest Dreams is an album of scenes from mini movies-the kind you might experience in your dreams, or the kind you might see in a TV short or a campy sci-fi movie.
Each of the songs on this album tells a story: some for fun and entertainment, some with a lesson attached. It is my pleasure to present to you some of my best music yet, but stay tuned-there’s always more to come.

Marvelous Scenes combines my love of music with my enjoyment of pop culture, especially the science fiction I have enjoyed since childhood, and the fantasy genres we all know from Star Wars movies to the Lord of the Rings.

On some days off over the years, I wrote the current material.
Over the years I have listened to an unbelieveable amount of music, and what I know is that there is a lot of music that you can't listen to with the kids in the car-especially when it comes to the content of the lyrics.

I write my music with the goal of creating music that is meaningful, entertaining, and most of all, doesn't have to be censored for the kids.

This album is dedicated to my brother Mark who always encouraged and inspired me, who shared his enjoyment of music, sci-fi movies and television with me, even if my piano practicing drove him nuts sometimes. ;)

This album is also in memory of my good friend Darrell McCulley. RIP, my friend.

Track 1. The Mission: What kind of mission is this song about? I leave it to your imagination. A spy is captured and his girlfriend has to go in and get him out from behind enemy lines. Or . . . the enemy has a weapon of terrible potential and the good guys must go in and bring it back . . . or destroy it if they fail.

Track 2. Type A Type B: This song is about you and your wife. Which one of you has the Type A personality? Which of you has the Type B personality?

The song begins with a driving drum beat, and then a harried guitar riff. In the middle of the song is a "laid-back" section. The song goes back to the rushed tune of the guitar. I wrote this with husbands and wives in mind. The Type A personality is rushed, while the Type B personality prefers the laid-back approach. Depending on the situation, sometimes couples change places on what motivates them . . . . So, who is Type A and who is Type B in your house? Hopefully this won't start any arguments!

Track 3. The Dust Clears: Where does the title come from?
The Dust Clears is a song about that epic comic book scene where the hero and the hero's nemesis meet in a pivotal battle. It is that game changing moment where everything that follows will never be the same. The outcome isn't really clear until . . . the dust clears.

Track 4. Reluctant Hero: Picture your favorite comic book characters (the heroes) sitting at home in front of the TV, their feet up resting. When they see trouble live on the news, will they stay put, or will they go to save the day? Reluctantly, they put aside their bowl of popcorn and head out to save the day. Our EMTs, firefighters, and many others do this for real all the time. Forget comic books, people like these are real life heroes in our society. They aren't really reluctant in their work, but I know that there are times when it is harder for them to leave the comforts of home than others . . . .

Featured in the song are the sounds of an Ibanez guitar, and others. Parts in the middle kind of remind me of an old Clementi Sonatina I used to play years ago. A fun little song.

Track 5. Highlander’s Battle: I've written a few songs with Scottish elements. "Sailing for Home" on my Wintersong album was one of those. This song is about a game between two Scotsmen. I think of them trying to knock each other off of a tree that is lying over a small falls or a river.

It's a fun song involve tribal sounding drums, a bagpipe, and of course, nothing says 16 or 1700s Scotland like an electric guitar! I think the ending is quite nice, so don't give up too soon. . . .

Track 6. A Ride by the Water: This particular song is completely done with the sounds of acoustic and steel guitar, and in some respects I consider it one of my finest instrumental songs.

Picture if you will a few hundred years ago, a young girl fishing by the water when she is bitten by a snake. A noble on horseback discovers her by the water, kills the snake, and puts the girl on his horseback.
The middle section I consider to be one of the more interesting solos I have written. Now picture the long ride as the noble carries this girl to a monastery in the hills where he will take her to a monk who can draw out the poison and heal her. Time is of the essence now.

Track 7. Raiders on Mars: Picture a science fiction flick in which a cargo ship headed for Mars is engaged in an attempted hijacking. The captain has just called into the base station when the blindside occurs just before entering the Martian atmosphere. There has even been a breach in the ship's crew; one is a traitor who has made the ship vulnerable to outside intruders. On the planet, desperate pioneers to the Red Planet are waiting for much needed supplies as space zombies attack. Sounds like a recipe for a pretty campy movie to me!

Track 8. Get Down Here, Quick! : This song is a strings only continuation of the previous song, Raiders on Mars.

Meanwhile on Mars, residents have contracted a virus that makes its victims delirious-a sci-first version of zombies perhaps. Those who are on the planet who haven't contracted the virus call for help: "Get Down Here, Quick!"

Track 9. Upside Down: This is a song about the dangers of appeasement, of not understanding the perils from outside a nation. What if Neville Chamberlain lived today, and we were replaying the events that led to World War II, with modern politicians declaring "Peace in our time" as serious enemies were threatening our destruction? This song is about what that would look like with today's modern media. Something to think about.

Track 10. ‘Nessie: Who doesn’t love the Loch Ness Monster? From myths and legends to old grainy pictures of who knows what, we’d all love to think there’s a dinosaur or two lurking around somewhere on the globe. This song is for those who are still holding out hope . . . or those who just like a good story.

The cover of the album is a tribute to the track. So is 'Nessie friendly, or is 'Nessie a foe? Notice the little kids reaching out for ‘Nessie as they stand on a rocky outcrop.

Track 11. The Time Machine: And who doesn’t like a good time travel tale? The style of this song is something like a story told in one of the more modern musicals. It features piano and an electric guitar sound that is controlled by an Ax Synth, complete with slides and tremolo. This was one that was a lot of fun to write, and throughout, the story grows in intensity.

I've always enjoyed science fiction about time travel, from Back to the Future, to many other shows and movies. It's always an interesting twist when everything gets messed up in the past and the protagonist of the story has to go back and fix everything.

The one event that sets bad things in motion is when the protagonist in this story arrives in the past and asks an old man the time. Looking down at his watch, he sees a coin on the ground which leads to an accident, which leads to as you would expect, a totally messed up future . . . . Give it time to develop-it's quite a song:

Track 12. Reflections: Picture if you will an old man who peers at his reflection in the water. There he sees a young man reflecting back at him who reaches out for his hand. The old man pulls out the young man as he recalls years of memories and they walk together, reminiscing.

Track 13. Not Even Kings: This song is as real as it gets, as it is about my faith. While the other songs are about fictional situations and stories, what's so marvelous about this song is that what it says is real. The lyrics are the words of Jesus paraphrased from Scripture. It is about not being anxious or worried for tomorrow, about resting your cares on the Lord.

I had some things to work out with the actual words, so I'm glad that I could put this into the album at this point in its rightful place, where I had always intended it to be.

Now, I remember a program about a pastor in an inner city church who was talking about the problems that they came to him with. What it comes down to is if you have all kinds of other problems, all kinds of troubles and cares, have you tried Jesus?

In Matthew chapter 11 Jesus tells those who have many weights and cares to come to Him, and He will give them rest. Jesus will give you rest.

Track 14. Just Hangin’ :

A few years back my friend Darrell McCulley passed away. He had dealt with a condition called spina bifida his entire life. Darrell was able to walk until he was 19 or 20, and then he had to have an operation, after which he was told he probably wouldn't be able to walk. The doctors of course were right on that count, but they weren't right on others. He was told at one point he wouldn't live to be thirty years old. Well, he lived to be fifty, and as a joke he had tombstones on his birthday cake that year. I met Darrell at seminary, and he was one of the most faithful people I have ever known, both spiritually, and in his friendship. So, I wrote a song about him.

This one is called Just Hangin'. It starts out with an organ that sounds a lot like a cheesy old funeral home organ, but listen to the lyrics to hear the story. The last minute and a half turned out really nicely-very proud of this song.

I took a picture of Darrell the year before he passed away when I went to visit him in Oregon. I was standing on a hill above and Darrell is waving below from his wheelchair. It’s a great memory.

He is buried in a cemetery called "Tree of Life" cemetery in a town in central California.

Track 15. Seize the Day: This is a song about being a boy: building forts and treehouses, chasing crawdads in neighborhood creeks, catching insects, playing Kick the Can all the way up to bedtime, or Ghost in the Graveyard for that matter, reading a few good books too, going on family vacations to cool historic places and national parks . . . . Every kid should have childhood summers like the ones I experienced. So many great memories.

Track 16 and 17 are instrumental only versions of The Time Machine and Not Even Kings.

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