Home

1000$ Music Contest

Details: Published on Tuesday, 08 January 2013 00:03

REACHING OUT TO MUSICIANS (ESTABLISHED AND ASPIRING) !!!

NEW Rush Sturges SONG "WHO AM I" and "DAY'S GO BY" REMIX CONTEST.

$1,000 1st Place Prize

Listen/Download original "Who Am I?"song HERE!
Listen/Download original "Days Go By" song HERE!

We put up a 1000$ first prize for this contest with hopes of both encouraging the musicians in our community, and attempting to bring more musicians into our community. We would thank anyone who has a friend or family member that might be interested to please pass this message along for us...

To enter the contest and get the link to download the accapella's + instrumentals, solo tracks, etc. please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your name, email address and phone number.

Please read rules and scroll to bottom of page.

RULES:

-Deadline March 31st
-Song must integrate use of Rush's lyrics, audio, or Hendri Coetzee voice sample from either "Who Am I" or "Days Go By." Usage is at the discretion of the musician.
-The musician also has the option to use his/her own voice to sing, sample, or remake the song. Covers of the song(s) will also be accepted.

* Song and all music that derive from it released under Creative Commons XXX

Acceptable formats: AIFF, WAVE, MP3, M4A (you can also upload a performance to Youtube but please send us the audio separately).

[ For information on how to make a remix, visit: http://www.wikihow.com/Remix ]

Artwork by the great Ekaterina Kulkova (Click here for more of her Art)
=================================================
=================================================
WHO AM I?
Written and performed by Rush Sturges
Produced by Greg Ellis

Hendri Coetzee Audio Sample:

"We try and justify, what we do. The fact is what we do is unusual. But why this? There are other things to understand. There are other things to do. There are easier and harder things to do. It's not about the hardest thing. I think the people who are drawn to this place... It's a calling. There's other things I can do. But, this is what I should do."

[Verse One:]

Wake up.
Face existence. Days like years. Months, minutes.
Twenty seven cycles i've been part of the changes.
My knife in the tree of life, carve a name in.
Canyons and rains, floods through the plains, blood pump in my veins, we are one in the same.
Like the waves when they break, or the earth as it shakes, the fate we create from our birth to the grave.
Make no mistake soldier.
We're all mortal.
Woven in moments, the flow move us forward.
I hold my breath, then dive to new depths.
I thrive on the edge of what life arrives next.
Sacrifice the excess, invest in my freedom.
Read these seasons , rings on a tree stump.
Freezing finger-tips, bitter like the winter’s lips.
Kiss of the wilderness, where the inner spirit live.
I navigate the infinite, passionately interested.
That kid who’s taking stabs at what the maximum of limits is.
And if you think it’s deep, I suggest you dig farther.
Find yourself a garden , plant those thoughts where the stars are.
And if those heartless sharks eat compassion of the angels.
And mangle every rainbow till the color bleeds to grey tones.
I’ll be in my same flow, cradled in the desolate.
Invested, forever, asking the same questions.

[PRE CHORUS:]

WHO AM?
A child inside a lifeline, time gone by but the time is I.
WHO ARE YOU?
A view that I will not perceive, but all that exists in you is in me.
WHO ARE WE?
The seasons engrained in the hardship. The product of darkness.
The monster that’s conscious.
US. The taste of the dust. The way of the one from our old to the young.

SING!

[CHORUS:]

WHO AM I?!?!

THE WICKED AND THE WISE INTERTWINED/
THE THIRD EYE VISION THAT RESIDE IN THE MIND/

WHO AM I!?!?!?

THE FLICKER IN THE FIRE/
THE CRY OF THE BEAST WHO DERIVED FROM THE WILD/
NOW CONFINED/

WHO AM I!?!?!?!

THE RISE OF THE TIDE/
THE SILENCE OF NIGHT THAT WILL SWALLOW THE LIGHT JUST TO THRIVE/

WHO AM I!?!?!?

I AM ALIVE/
I HAVE SURVIVED/
IN TIME I WILL DIE/

THAT IS LIFE.

[Verse Two:]

The master and commander.
Sailing for some answers to fasten me down like anchors.
Cause i've been taking chances in the violence of the wild sea.
No light house to guide me, I'm flying a blind dream.
I breathe my spirit on beats, let it define me.
And speak clarity, mountain stream on a high peak.
My life at light speed, moving through the mayhem.
Consumed in the day to day patience, they say is aging.
Afraid, cause it's painfully murderous what the verdict is.
Impermanence, returning into the earth again.
I merge with the current, KILL serpents and reign victorious.
Modern day WARRIOR, conquering the conformity.
Break it off like cornices, and smash your whole fortress in.
Absorbed by the FORCE, not a soul to tell the story lives.
And with that destiny I take a minute to adjust.
Conflicted by a vision that my mission's in flux.
But we're swimming in the RUSH, far beyond the threshold.
And sometimes, to hold on, you just gotta let go.
My narrative is EBB AND FLOW.
The vessel in my FLESH and BONES.
An epicenter where the messenger control the metronome.
Values, balance, harnessing your talents.
Throw it all down and accept any challenge.
My chapel stay the mountains, till i'm hanging at the gallows.
And my soul afterglow, through the valley of the shadows.

[PRE CHORUS:]

WHO AM?
A child inside a lifeline, time gone by but the time is I.
WHO ARE YOU?
A view that I will not perceive, but all that exists in you is in me.
WHO ARE WE?
The seasons engrained in the hardship. The product of darkness.
The monster that’s conscious.
US. The taste of the dust. The way of the ONE from our old to the YOUNG.

SING!

[CHORUS:]

WHO AM I?!?!

THE WICKED AND THE WISE INTERTWINED/
THE THIRD EYE VISION THAT RESIDE IN THE MIND/

WHO AM I!?!?!?

THE FLICKER IN THE FIRE/
THE CRY OF THE BEAST WHO DERIVED FROM THE WILD/
NOW CONFINED/

WHO AM I!?!?!?!

THE RISE OF THE TIDE/
THE SILENCE OF NIGHT THAT WILL SWALLOW THE LIGHT JUST TO THRIVE/

WHO AM I!?!?!?

I AM ALIVE/
I HAVE SURVIVED/
IN TIME I WILL DIE/

THAT IS LIFE.

Hendri Coetzee Audio Sample:

"There's a reason that death and rebirth are so close to each other in spirituality. And i'm not saying I enjoy knowing i'm going to die, or I could die. I don't. It's a process. It starts a process of reassessing your life. And it makes it really hard not to live as best you can. When you know, that you might not live forever."
------------------

Hendri Coetzee Audio Sample Courtesy: Hendri Coetzee Trust

Provided by Ben Stookesberry from the kayak film "Kadoma"

=================================

Lyrics to “Days Go By”
Written by Rush Sturges
Composed by Rudy Slizewski
Produced by Steve Berlin
Performed by TapWater:

There’s no time like the present.
That's why i'm taking in, each breath, like it's the last I might inhale forever.
Putting it in perspective like a panoramic, captured on camera. My birds eye view, over the planet, expanding.
Sinking, Atlantis, but it's actually happening.
Moving rapidly like the eyes of humanity fast asleep.
But aint no way i'll stay complacent.
We need to break the chains of this financial system that viscously enslaves us.
I want to take it back like Cave Men, ancient, basic, no seven day creation, faithless.
Exploration.
In this wilderness of consequence.
Deliver honestness, common sense, not dominance.
The problem seems endorsed by the dreams of our culture.
Bleed the resources into glorified fortunes.
The rivers into reservoirs, my forests into floor boards, absorb everything, I need MORE! MORE! MORE!

Now breathe.
(exhale)

CHORUS:
I see days go by.
Watching the sun-rise again.
Like a road that has no end.
Or an old familiar friend.
I set the journey as my destination.
We'll stay connected like constellations.
Soon I will be home.
For now I am gone.

[Verse Two:]
Let me travel to where this started.
Like stardust evolving into a garden.
Blossoming, like the dream that we harvest inside the monster. Stay alive constant, time watcher, All of this I am a part of.
Lost inside the chaotic carnival of the conscious.
Like autumn leaves that fall, then dissolve into winter.
The seasons personify, what it's like to be living.
Given the present circumstances, i'll take my chances with death. Testing her every caress, makes it less stressful to accept. AH YES!
A breath of fresh air.
Out into the clear sky.
Frontier of mind.
Good times, outside the confined.
The city life, turning it's citizens into victims, in this existence, you get one chance, to push the distance.
Positioned for the path of least resistance, like rivers.
We all carve these canyon walls into the system to fit in.
But in my heart i'll never give in.
All I got is ambition.
An addiction to break the limits build a vision to finish and then BREATHE.
(exhale)

[CHORUS:]
I see days go by/
Watching the sun rise again/
Like a road that has no end/
Or an old familiar friend/
I set the journey as my destination/
We'll stay connected like constellations/
Soon I will be gone.
For now i'm HOME.

Home now i'm home

Now i'm home (X4)
Soon I will be gone (X3)
For now I am home.

(CLOSING)

Another year gone by.
Another sunset.
Another sunrise.
NO. I'm not done yet.
I can't rest until I finish the quest.
And even then, i'll be asking the question, like what's next?
-------------

---------

Review of Rush's last EP from Laurel Brauns
"... Sturges has spent much of his life exploring all corners of the planet as a filmmaker and boater, and it seems he might have been collecting sounds and songs in addition to footage along the way. At times, the words plow forward at 90 miles an hour, without time to stop for acoustic flourishes: instead psychological excavations and cinematic quests take the drivers seat. At other times, this is a Rhythm of the Saints-esque soundscape set to literate raps, bringing the listener inside the heart and mind of a sometimes crazed, but always intriguing white guy reaching for enlightenment and self-actualization..."