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MP3 George Wallace - Set Free
8 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Progressive Rock, POP: Beatles-pop
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Set Free is named after a recurring phrase in several of the song lyrics, with no small connection to George''s personal and professional liberations he experienced during its production. Here is a mature, intense, eclectic mix of musical architecture, just left-of-mainstream, combining in daring new proportions his trademark contrast of quiet/powerful, light/dark, joyful/brooding qualities.
Set Free may seem a departure for those who have come to know his instrumental work, but he''s also a vocalist, and like in the old days, he does virtually all the singing.
About the songs of Set Free:
Love So Tough -- The unmistakable theme here is the special invincibility of real relationship and true love. Always worth having, and always worth working for.
11:11 -- I don''t always know what my songs are about. I think 11:11 suggests that we periodically experience moments of truth, and revelation. I happen to be drawn to the number 11; the actual hour is of course different for everyone.
This Was My Home (Promised Land) -- A "homesick" song about me longing for the wooded, temperate terrain of Bucks County, PA, and for the well-rooted family and friends who still lived there.
Suzannah -- About a real relationship, altered a bit to make the song work better...but it''s still true, complex, and rather sad.
Send Out the Love -- A snappy love-and-peace number. Whatever was he trying to say with that ''New World Order'' bit, anyway? Hate is not the solution, but don''t take it from me. Take it from Albert Einstein.
Remember the Moon -- An oriental-spiced piece framed in a lullaby style, "Moon" was written for my son Corey, now a young man with a very old, gentle soul. I was facing a long, difficult separation from him via a temporary move to Japan. It''s the same moon, no matter where in the world we are...
How Long Before I''m Found
This is a tender recollection of a parting with my first love -- a separation destined to be long, but, happily not permanent. In the meantime, what was left for me? "How Long" humbly tips the producer''s hat to Brian and Carl Wilson...there will never be a sound quite like theirs.
Angels Watch Over Me
A lovely but complicated woman once introduced me to the real possibility of angels working and moving amongst us. In return for that gift, I wrote her this song. This was her story, a difficult one at times; fortunately her angels were there.
George''s flair for composing and playing first appeared when he began classical piano and theory lessons at age eight in Philadelphia, PA. At 13 he encountered the absolute coolness of the electric guitar. He soon threw himself into a series of late''60s-influenced bands (with names like Dark Side, Soul Society, Mass Confusion) as bass player, vocalist, keyboardist, and writer. At Berklee College of Music in Boston, he majored in composition and arranging and played with other groups, settling in with "Fate", a busy, successful club act headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts. During this time, he was initiated into multitrack recording. The group recorded a string of singles, all written and/or produced by George.
He left the group after six years to pursue a solo recording career in New York City. After signing a major multi-album deal with CBS/Epic Records and a publishing agreement with Screen Gems, his two albums under that label were: Heroes like You and Me in 1980 and What It Is in 1982. Virtually all parts were sung or played by George himself. Both albums enjoyed enviable critical acclaim by numerous industry publications such as the Gavin Report, High Fidelity, Record World, Trouser Press, and Billboard.
According to one reporter, George had created a "high-level synthesis of style and influences...yet with something indefinably original about it, possessed of its own quirky energy... a real thing" according to Matt Damsker of the Philiadelphia Bulletin (April 26, 1981).
In 1983 George left New York for Bucks County, PA, where he was free to explore the finer subtleties of his maturing songwriter''s persona. He wrote and recorded over an increasingly wide range of dynamic and lyric styles. He occasionally produced other acts and produced several planetarium show soundtracks. For a little while longer, he continued writing "crash-boom-bang" material for Screen Gems; several songs from this period received airplay through cover versions from such artists as Ted Nugent, Pat Travers, and Joan Jett, as well as some European artists generally unknown in the American mainstream.
His subject matter expanded into compositions more introspective and spiritual. In 1985 George formed his own new studio and production company, AirBorn Music, and produced three landmark instrumental works: Sacred Earth (1985), Communion (1988), and Frontiers (1993). All three AirBorn releases were soon taken to heart by radio audiences for whom unique new music is the norm. He was a featured artist on Philadelphia-produced shows Diaspar and Star''s End, and nationally recognized on widely syndicated shows like Echoes, Hearts of Space, and Musical Starstreams. He found himself in good radio company; the compositions of Kate Bush, Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach, Richard Burmer, Andreas Vollenweider, and Philip Glass were apt to be heard before or after a George Wallace cut had been played.
In 1997 he spent a year and a half in Japan, where he wrote a wealth of new material, both instrumental and vocal. The potpourri of new instrumentals took on the title If I Had A Ship... The song collection found its own title, Set Free. After his return to America, George finished and mixed both projects almost simultaneously. In the spring of 2000, George reconnected with his first love from many years before. Ultimately he moved himself, his studio, and AirBorn out to Alaska to be with her, and there he now resides.
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