Dabobad

Mar 2, 2025

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Words and music by Briyan Frederick
© Brian F Baker | Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP
Briyan Frederick: rhythm guitar
Sounds and mixed with sunoai

Vocal by Freyd

This was written during FAWM 2025 for the Palindrome challenge. I uploaded the repetitive electric guitar rhythm heard off and on on and off throughout the song. This was a tapegerm from my open loop directory which Tapegerm Collective artists made available outside of the group pool. I’ve made the open loop collection available for download. Feel free to make something yourself. We’d like to hear it if you do.

Lyric

Dabobad
Gets you coming
Gets you going
With a greasy handshake
His words fall into themselves
Without you knowing

Dabobad
He’s always back and forth
Down south and back up north
He disappears at in-between
He’s run his course

[chorus]
Dabobad
We’ve seen it all before
You’re a revolving door
Foreverevermore

[instrumental break]

(…oooohoooo…)
(…oooohoooo…)

[bridge]
Tilt it lit (Tilt it lit)
Tilt it lit (Tilt it lit)
Tilt it lit (Tilt it lit)
Tilt it lit? (Tilt it lit)

[chorus]
Dabobad
We’ve seen it all before
He’s a revolving door
Foreverevermore

[end]
evereve evereve
Don’t ever eve believe him
(…oooohoooo…)
(…oooohoooo…)

Comments

@celineellis – 2025-02-03Yes this is amazing demo – great arrangement. The vocal treatment is immense – so tight. Really moves through the song well, because it’s such a great arrangement. And the second Palindrome in the bridge! It’s really atmospheric and at the same time pumping.
@kwillsen – 2025-02-03I read the lyrics first, and really liked them. The demo blew me away. Many of the drum and bass sounds have that “sharp stop” effect that I associate with reversed audio. Makes it hard to tell which way the audio is going – which is perfect.

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Blind Mime Ensemble is a multimedia art project by Briyan Frederick.

Blind Mime Ensemble is fronted by Riyan and Freyd, two enigmatic, mimes who navigate a surreal, ever-shifting world of sound, silence, and absurdity. Their blindness is fluid—sometimes self-imposed, sometimes real, sometimes performative—as they search for meaning, expression, and each other in an evolving landscape of experimental music, visual storytelling, and conceptual art.

Their performances blur the lines between dreams and reality, chaos and order, seeing and unseeing, embodying the essence of Blind Mime Ensemble’s ever-expanding universe.

Blind Mime Ensemble VS is a secondary project where BME creates albums from audio seeded from other artists, Tapegerms, videos, found recordings and more. It’s more experimental glitchy electronic and explores the boundaries of modern composition with AI and other methods.

Blind Mime Ensemble Variations is where we explore variations of found sounds, art and maybe other things. These explorations result in album-length pieces. Send us something for us to into something new.

You can find Briyan Frederick‘s home and studio recordings at briyanfrederick.bandcamp.com.