Bruce Gombrelli – THE SINGLES
Room With A View (2017) – Released by Bruce Gombrelli – The first release of 2017. This song was brand new from ground up and was written in little over a month, which is rather unusual for me to put together a song that fast. The mini chorus was designed to be clean and full of harmonic content, the Tally Ho toward the end was very fun to do and smacks of my “Zimmy Too Dao” & other wordy sections I like to put in songs. Complete composed, performed, engineered and produced by Bruce Gombrelli. It’s a RETRO BRITISH POP song.
See The Sunshine (2016) – Released by ACQUISOTIC – The first release of 2016. this song has it’s roots in another song I wrote when I was 17 and remade again when I was in my 20’s. The original was more of a ditty than a song really but it had the “How ya gonna see the sun shine” lyric. Which was simply short verse, tiny chorus and second short version tiny chorus and end. The current version is completely built out and includes a bridge and a rather longer outro with many lyrics, chords and guitar leads that didn’t exist in the original.
Without Words (2015) – The first release of 2015. This song is a version of a song I wrote when I was about 18. It was never released back then and I only have a version with guitar, myself and a friend called Bob Woods on vocals. I really liked this song and decided it would be one of the very few I might release from my earlier music so I added a guitar bridge, and intro and some very unusual backing vocals and produced it. The lyrics are almost virtually identical to the original version with the exception that where it says “babe” I used to say “hey”. I changed it because it sounded to trite. Also, the without words behind the guitar solo is new as it the “Woman, only you”. I tried to keep one pretty simple but it does have a flute in it, as well as 2 synth tracks. There’s only 1 bass track and 2 drum tracks. It’s got a LOT of vocal tracks included one panned hard right that is a live sung duplicate of the main melody but mixed at a lower volume as to enhance and create an interesting lead vocal sound.
High On The Hill (2014) – This song should have been on the Stir Fry CD but I missed putting on there probably because it is essentially the same song as the one Brent sang. It is the only one with Julianne Loveless on vocals and me on backing vocals and all instrumentals. I wrote the song, lyrics and melody and gave it to her to sing. The backing instrumentation is a bit different on this version than the Stir Fry version. I have the original version with me singing the lyrics but I didn’t like the quality and never got around to re-doing the vocals so I gave it to Brent and Julianne to try.
Handwriter (2012)- This song was an extension of the “Smooth Landing” idea. I was using a RS7000 and trying to build a cool smooth track underneath that I could lay down some nice guitar work to. I did many arrangements and guitar takes before I came up with this version. All in All, this type of song takes WAY less time to produce than my full on Vocal based material.
Bow Wave (2010) – Love it! This song was literally SCORED on the computer then I came back and played the live guitar track over it. The female vocals came from samples that I (cleverly I might add) placed in the song at strategic places. The idea of question and answer came about when I was listening to the vocals LATER and decided that it might be a cool way to express a musical conversation. The Bow Wave part is because the underlying track makes me think of water, a submarine, etc.
Whole Lotta Wrong (2010) – See the Stir Fry info on this one. It’s the same song but I had released it as a single before putting it on the Stir Fry CD because people in the WCS community wanted to buy it. I wrote this as a WCS song, and sent it to John Keenan to sing. It sent me this version that I mastered. The original backing tracks for this was an early version so there is a unreleased version of this called Bluez Bonez with different lyrics that has a more refined backing tracks that I might release some day. Bluez Bonez is sung my me.
