Originally Posted By: Tano Music
I decided to punch in on this because I never heard the word "tranlitic"--and I wanted to see what you were talking about.

First of all, on its own merits, this is a lovely song, and so professionally produced, and I really enjoyed it.

After reading the background info on translit process, I still don't completely understand it, but it seems that what you are doing is very creative! I love an experimenter!

Thanks for posting this!


Thanks so much! I'm happy you enjoyed the song. As far as the translitic, this is something that I learned about in the 80s and taught in the 90s & early 2000s when I taught creative writing at the university. Originally it was something applied to writing poems, but over the years, it has been adapted to song lyrics. Friends of mine, J. Wagner and Gregory Alan Isakov have used this method a lot on their last few co-writes & albums. I think it can be a powerful tool to generate interesting images, metaphors, juxtapositions, etc. When I get some more time, I'll try to do a better write up about the process and post it.

Thanks again! Cheers, Todd

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