Vox & String

By Kyle Richtig

Vox & String is the collection of Kyle Richtig's songs and spoken word pieces from 2002 - 2011.

Selections are from the following albums:

Grounding
Frozen Fish
Life in a Scat Filled Universe
Snow Day
Green Sessions
Demise
Tranquility
Hate, Fear & Trust
Mesmerize
The Journey
Saviour
Not Present

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781304766472

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Vox & String

Vox & String

Kyle Richtig

Copyright © 2014 Kyle Richtig

All rights reserved under International Copyright Conventions. 

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

Richtig, Kyle

Vox & String

ISBN: 978-1-304-76647-2

For Chris, Joel and Mary. You have made the mosaic of my life a beautiful place. You turned me from one to one quarter. There is no other group I could lose myself in.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Grounding

Ashes to Ashes

City

Eye To Eye

As You Enter Me

Long Strange Journey

When Forward Turns To Back

Perfect Silence

Death 1990

Becoming Callous

Perfect Silence II

Frozen Fish

Barren

January 3rd 1994

Batchewana

Necklace

Harboured

Loved

Chelsea

P-ART-NERZ

Zwei Liebes

Life in a Scat Filled Universe

Countryfied

In The Dark

Insect Black Vinyl Halo Teaches Me

February

Tuesday

Morning Light

Gone

Rain

Snow Day

Snow Day

City II

The Lament of Teo

Green Sessions

As Thoughts Wander…

Green

Patchouli

Photograph

It’s A Jude Kind Of Day

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Strong Man

Demise

Cherished

Whispered Truths

Ghostplay

Worm Tongue

Electric

Ashes

Temple

To The Beat

Demise

Tranquility

Goodbye

Fe Fi Fo Fum

Stones

Boys Like You

The Reason

Green Warriors

Morning Would

Surprise

Your Love

Hate, Fear and Trust

You

Postpone

Morning Sun

Reciprocal

Blind Steps

Sometimes Silent

Nothing Left to Give

Lesson

The End

Mesmerize

Abyss

Broken Success Express

Garden of Earthly Delights

Inside You

Little One

Mesmerize

Shards

Steel Town

Violet Sky

The Journey

Blur

Neanderthal

Variable

Us

Incantation

Broken Halo

More Beautiful

Remember The Good Times

My Love Is An Ocean

Storm Clouds

Home Again

Only More Two

Saviour

China Doll

Hidden Agenda

Wouldn’t Do Us Any Good

Not Present

And I Want To…

Cavan

Joel’s Song

Forgotten Pools

Not Present

The Last

I’ve Lost That Sight

New Song

Cold December

Foreword

I started playing guitar in 2002. Prior to this, I had several guitar playing friends who used to entertain and create an atmosphere. They played popular songs we could all sing to, as well as their own creations. When we all went our separate ways, as is the way in Toronto, I started to play.

I did not take any lessons, which made the process longer and more difficult than it probably needed to be. I, however, wanted my sound to be as organic and of myself as possible. I was looking for a way to amplify and enhance my writing, rather than to compose music that others would envy. That did come with time.

Vox & String is my collection of songs and spoken word written from 2002 - 2011. In the early days I wrote to entertain myself, as well as to work through my own issues. Some of the songs were adapted from poems I had written years earlier, but were purposeful for my own needs. I found that singing is a lot like meditating. Singing the same songs repeatedly keeps the mind focused on the issue, and allows one to work through the good and bad.

The cited period represents my most productive period of song writing to date. I continue to write songs, but with age unfortunately comes greater responsibilities, and less time to devote to such pursuits.

Grounding

Ashes to Ashes

Why do I wonder why

You never say I