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No Stopping

from I Come From Earth by Harmony Dreamers

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Words, Music and Produced by Byron Lee Scott
Vocal Melodies by Anna V
Mastering by Luis “The LP” Pacheco at The Hideout Studios, Las Vegas

About the song, from Byron: In summer of 2021, Larry and his wife invited me to house and pet sit while they went on vacation. We started recording in Larry's studio where his drums were all setup, with balanced sound, ready to record. Larry then invited me to stay the summer, and No Stopping was the beginning of our multiple-drummer sound. No Stopping was an instrumental at first, no lyrics, and had been through several titles. I had a finished song, as it was, on my old 4-track analog masters. We were going to start from scratch, do the song over from the ground up. I recorded three takes of Larry jamming to the old recording, then we planned to start over from his drums and add tracks, or as they say, overdub, one instrument at a time. I told Larry, “This is the song for all those amazing drum riffs you've been rehearsing.” He wailed on the drums! In fact, he was jamming so hard on take that there was No Stopping at the end he kept going a bit too long. That's why at the end of the song you can hear him say from a different take, "I hit the ending." Then we didn't finish the song. It seemed like the original tracks just had something worth keeping. So, one day Larry is watching an Eric Clapton live video on the TV, and they had three drummers on stage. I said, “I want four drummers!” That gave us the idea to use both drum tracks together, and the alternating drum solos. This song really came together, all the parts. Nevertheless, I always felt this was Larry's drum song, where he got to cut loose, and you can hear, he's a top-notch drummer.

After many crazy ideas, I finally wrote lyrics that fit the energetic mood of the music. I had no vocal melodies written and decided to give the song and lyrics to Anna V. She had already finished brilliant singing on Spinning 'round the Sun Parts 1 & 2, and I knew that she likes to write melodies. Once again Anna amazed me. Not just the cool melodies and feel she brought to No Stopping, but I found out the girl can rock & roll!

Most of the synths were done recently on guitar synth, except the keyboard solo in the instrumental section. That solo, all the way through the helicopter sound was recorded years ago on the 4-track, using a Korg Poly 61 that my friend loaned me to record. It's amazing the mixing together of a few old sounds with new tracks.

Computer recording has come a long way. This entire project, all the technology involved, the inventors and vendors ... I feel it's like standing on the shoulders of giants. I would not be able to share my music were it not for so many people before.

Harmony Dreamers is a studio project of prolific songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Byron Lee Scott, along with long-time band mate and drummer Larry Dragland. On each song are a host of top-tier vocalists and musicians from around the world, including more than 20 international backup singers on the humorous title track, I Come From Earth. It's all new music, happening now.

Click this link www.koji.to/harmonydreamers for the band's fun KOJI BIO, where you can do things like ask questions, or name an artist who one of our songs reminds you of. Koji is amazing, and later we will add more ways for you to interact, make videos for our songs, and who knows what other shenanigans.

Enjoy Life

lyrics

There's no stopping
when you're living your dream
Whatever it is
There's really only one guarantee

Well you can change your direction
from a million different ways to be free
Now if you choose to move on, that's alright
It's up to you … what you wanna wanna wanna do

There's no stopping
when you're living your dream
Whatever it is
There's really only one guarantee

Well if you stop chasing rainbows
you might make it to the top all the same
But either way, it's alright, time won't mind
For in the end it will be okay my friend

So find that fire
Don't you hide it inside
The time is now
To let it fly

Instrumental Sections

There's no stopping
Every moment is a fork in the track
Well if you want to know the way ahead
ask the ones coming back

And when the seasons are changing
and you're riding on top of a wave
Don't be afraid to be brave, keep it cool
The storm will pass
Then it's time to move your feet

When you're living your dream
Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead
Go ahead

credits

from I Come From Earth, released August 26, 2022
The artists on this song are...
Byron – Drums, Percussion, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Guitar Synthesizers, Keyboard Synthesizer.
Anna V - Lead Vocals
Larry Dragland - Drums and Percussion

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Harmony Dreamers Las Vegas, Nevada

Harmony Dreamers is an extraordinary group of musicians and singers from around the world.

The music is heavily guitar and synthesizer based. On various songs, there are orchestrations, a vibraphone, a clarinet, and sound effects.

Scott sings all the male vocals, along with seven female vocalists, chosen to fit each song, and as you might expect, the vocal harmonies are most interesting.
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