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I Am by Billie Davies

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Album Title: Time to Cut Loose
Label: Cobra Basement
Released: 2026
Duration: 00:28:23

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I Am (By Billie Davies - 2020)

I was born on a by the ocean land
And guided by my mother's hand

Raised intuitively
I got lots of instinct
Grown up instinctively
I've become contradistinct

And
I don't want to write like you...
I don't think like you
I don't speak like you
I cannot play like you
I am me

I think about that
I want to write about that

But I do not want to be right, righting
I cannot play like that
I am me

I do not want to be like others
I do not want
To be formatted
To live in a box designed by others
And I don't care
It's the right thing
For others
If it's not the right thing
For me

I was born on a by the ocean land
And guided by my mother's hand

Lived free and without a plan
Not to think but to live
Have experience because I can
Not to live but to give

And
I don't want to be like you...
I don't live like you
I don't see like you
I cannot play like you
I am me

I think about that
I want to write about that

But I do not want to be right, righting
I cannot play like that
I am me

I cannot be like others
I cannot be formatted
To live in a box designed by others
And I don't care
It's the right thing
For others
If for me
It's not the right thing
I do not want to be right, righting
I cannot play like that
I am me

As a direct continuation of the "Music for the Future" series, "Time to Cut Loose" pushes the boundaries of modern instrumentation. Reviewers and musicians alike will find a challenging, deeply textured sonic landscape driven by complex interactions between strings and rhythm. Billie Davies meticulously directed the AI instrumentation to deliver distinct, track-specific personalities for both the guitars and basses on all songs:
What "I Am" is concerned she found the right approach for the upright bass: A bright modern jazz upright bass characterized by sparse, sharp pizzicato walks in the high register, evolving continuously into tense, atonal free improvisation.
Cobra Basement

Tracks

Time to Cut Loose; I Am; Why Does it Make Me Cry; Three Days in 1968

Personnel

Billie Davies

drums

Raphaelle O'Neal

vocals

Additional Personnel

Billie Davies: Piano; Billie Davies: Moises AI for bass & guitar

Date featured

October 30, 2026

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