"Short Italian Lullaby"

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Written by Dave Caruso
Arranged and produced by Dave Caruso in Trenton, MI in 2004.

Musicians on the Demo (With All Your Heart):
Dave Caruso: Lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards, drum programming, percussion.
Wally Piotrowski: Electric guitars
Chris Wietzke: Drums

Musicians on Short Italian Lullaby:
Dave Caruso: Lead vocals, backing vocals, piano, bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards, drum programming, percussion.
Wally Piotrowski: Electric guitars
Chris Wietzke: Drums

The Song:
The sound FX at the beginning and end of "With All Your Heart" imply that some kind of music machine is being wound up and then played. The artificial quality of the drum loop adds to that image. When the song ends, it sounds like a machine turning off, slowly losing speed, even though the pitch of the piano doesn't change. The windup sound was accomplished with a ratchet wrench. The sound of the machine starting up and shutting down is a coffee grinder, with the speed adjusted digitally and some EQ thrown in to disguise it. Eric Freeman, drummer for The Room Upstairs, hadn't yet joined the band when recording began on "With All Your Heart." Chris Wietzke played a MIDI drum controller for this tune. The drum loop is a combination of two loops from Sonic Foundry's "Acid" collection, with some additional drum machine sounds layered on top.  

The Recording:
"With All Your Heart" was recorded and mixed at Aural Contact Productions Studio on a PIII, 550Mhz PC using Steinberg Cubase software. No ADAT or tape of any kind was used--all audio was recorded directly to hard drive and stayed in a digital environment throughout production.