The music was composed to accompany a video made from collages of photographs, creating striking alien landscapes.
Download from: https://craigwinstanley.bandcamp.com/track/sunrises
Video: https://youtu.be/W5xSth6-j50
Live version: https://youtu.be/tf89UmzgRF0

Sunrises

Not so much shanty as ranty...

Hark, the roar of the silenced boys
Filling the air with deafening noise
Hark, the cancelled women complain
Again and again and again and again

Random bores and media whores
Bravely fighting phantom wars
Bravely battling for billionaires
Brave generals in brave armchairs
Bravely signalling virtue-free
Peddling fantasy history
Bravely following the people’s clown
Saluting the flag hung upside down

Whistling warriors call their pack
Lighting gas for the snark attack
Money makes the merry-go-round
Sell fake England by the pound

Brave Trombone by Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

Whistling Warriors

Birth was played as part of C÷M appearing at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival (Sept. 2021).  See live video: https://youtu.be/cSlwPqf8e1U

The track includes recycled lyrics.  I always put my recycled lyrics out on a Thursday...

(previously used in https://soundcloud.com/craig-winstanley-1/imposter)

Birth (a C÷M  track)

Music to accompany a video made from more than 100 photographs taken from the same position over the period of a year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIjNoyC0gQ

Walk Through a Pandemic #1

Music composed to accompany a video showing >100 photographs of the same view taken over the course of a year:
https://youtu.be/CL6ahmqruE8

Walk Through a Pandemic #2

A recording of C÷M performing ‘Forgotten Conversations’ at the Empty Space, Salford (25th September 2021) as part of the show "From Where? To Here".  For video see https://youtu.be/S55q6Gqge1I
Forgotten conversations: Recordings of voices reciting the phonetic alphabet, scrambled and reimagined.  Bubbles of turbulent communication; Incorporating The Curve: musings on past, present and future; It takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve.

C: myself
M: Jon Ogara (@allopenelectrics)
(see https://craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/ for further information)
For a review of the show, see https://thegmreviewer.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/

Forgotten Conversations (performed live by C÷M)

To mark COP(out)26, C÷M present the track 'Inertia'...
Video: https://youtu.be/5iQvc4ItEQA

Bubbling streams of hollow schemes
Melting in the silence of the sun

Riding high on the crest of a sigh
Tears of rain come crashing from the sky

Motion late, equivocate
Ripping free the ice-coat from the land

Soothing text, empty pledge
Usher forth the raging of the storms

C: Craig Winstanley. Guitars, voice and stuff
M: Jon Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics). External forces applied in saxophonic and trombonic forms.

Inertia

Music composed to accompany a video showing >100 photographs of the same view taken over the course of a year.  Third in the series.
For video, see https://youtu.be/tEuRxZBihBU

Walk Through a Pandemic #3

Growing tired of the liars and the cheats, the deceits of the elites….
Self-unaware at the Vanity Fair -the highest possible priority to saying words
Sow what you reap, bullshit is cheap, selling out to the dragging feet, of the elite
Slipping away, save it for a rainy doomsday, making hay, on the way
Sinking deep in the shadow of the valley of time, bluff on the causes of crime

Video: https://youtu.be/185DOo7AGxE

Conscience

From the show "From Where? To Here". Recorded live at the Empty Space, Salford (Sept. 2021).  
Video: https://youtu.be/-Q-yzkIZ4mE 

Using an artificial intelligence system developed by Dr Anna Djambo (University of Leicester), recordings of neural network representations of our musical DNA are used to play a variety of sounds, accompanied by improvisations. Each performance will be unique.  Incorporates Whistling Warriors: Bravely fighting phantom wars, they haunt the modern mediascape.

Hark, the roar of the silenced boys
Filling the air with deafening noise
Hark, the cancelled women complain
Again and again and again and again

Random bores and media whores
Bravely fighting phantom wars
Bravely battling for billionaires
Brave generals in brave armchairs
Bravely signalling virtue-free
Peddling fantasy history
Bravely following the people’s clown
Saluting the flag hung upside down

Whistling warriors call their pack
Lighting gas for the snark attack
Money makes the merry-go-round
Sell fake England by the pound

C: myself
M: Jon Ogara (@allopenelectrics)
(see craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/ for further information)
For a review of the show, see https://thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/

Who are we Here? And who are we There?...(performed live by C÷M)

From the show "From Where? To Here". Recorded live at the Empty Space, Salford (Sept. 2021).

C÷M are myself and Jon Ogara (@allopenelectrics)
(see craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/ for further information)
For a review of the show, see thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/…re-to-here/

Thunderstorm (performed live by C÷M)

C÷M performing Journey's End live at St. Augustine’s Arts & Events Centre, Brighton 6th May 2022) as part of the show "From Where? To Here" 
(see https://craigwinstanley.online/from-where-to-here/ for further information). For a review of the show, see https://thegmreviewer.wordpress.com/2021/09/18/c-div-m-from-where-to-here/

The voice hasn't recorded brilliantly, but you can hear the saxophonic and flautistic journey of Jon Ogara (@allopenelectrics), who is M to my C...

When time weighs heavy in a distant place
When bygone memories swarm diminished space
When the past’s trodden path dwarfs the future’s trail
When what once shone bright, flickers drawn and pale
When the sweetest taste yields a bitter hue
When all’s grown tired that sparkled new
When you reach in vain for neglected friends
Thoughts turn to journey’s end

Journey's End (by C÷M , recorded live in Brighton)

Eyes on the prize and the latest lies …. he said
Lead us on to the bridge of highs…. he said
Milk and honey, follow the money … …he said
Giving up the ghost of the Sunday roast… … he said

Fool Britannia, selling off the waves
Fool Britannia, selling off the waves

Offering the lamb for the latest scam…he said
And it came to pass, following the ass…he said
Disciples scream as he’s selling the dream…he said
Playing the clown as the people drown…he said

Fool Britannia, selling off the waves
Fool Britannia, selling off the waves

On your side with the mockery of pride… he said
Believe in me and the land of the free… he said
Onward Faustian soldiers march… he said
In the theatre absurd, he doesn’t mean a word he said

Fool Britannia, selling off the waves
Fool Britannia, selling off the waves

C (me): guitars, voice, stuff
M (@allopenelectrics): selling the sax...
Video: https://youtu.be/2DxgmWbfpHM

Selling The Dream (by C÷M )

Taking five, waiting for the time to arrive, searching for the will to survive, on the drive of your lives
Taking four, chilling for another cold war, dreaming of the broken dance floor, falling through another trap door, hoping for more
Taking three, dominoes are falling over me, imprisoned in the land of the free, submerged in a fake reality
Taking two, power trippers calling after you, looking for another breakthrough, rejoicing at the callous menu, it’s true
Taking one, mad dogs running for the sun, fat cats have only just begun, creaming cream, having fun

Counting Down

Music to accompany a series of images taken of the same view over a period of about a year. Includes many sunrises. The video is available from:
https://youtu.be/pf5dPaugpEY

A walk through time (position 6)

Built around a recording of an alarm forming the audio background to a hospital visit. Musings on dementia.

Turbulent word streams, erratic coherence
Urgent meanings frustratingly mislaid
Inner sense to outer muddle [innocence]
Interface to inner struggle [in your face]
Fragmented paranoia, translucent target, floating beyond the grasp of balanced conscience
Unviolated nuance beyond interpretation
Disjointed intelligence, resentful agitation

Agitation

Schizoid dance of the criminal clown,
Seldom up, but never down

misleading you in good faith...

Schizoid Dance of the Criminal Clown

Originally inspired by visions of Fjords...
Saxophone by @allopenelectrics
Video: https://youtu.be/rnGQiQ-Fzis

Pining (a C÷M track)

the lyrics are regurgitated phrases from the Old Testament (King James Bible)

Apocryphal

Stagnation: a state of not flowing or moving...

Stagnation

The true spirit of Christmas...buy my new book

New Book

Good riddance to 2016, a year when heroes died and villains triumphed.

Happy New Year to all the good people

2016:Dissonance

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kakGLRTbV9o

Connectivity (v1)

What are words worth?

Time and tide and Slime and slide and Crime and cried and
Dream and died and Scream inside and Gleam and glide and
Mime and mired and Prime and pride and Rhyme and ride and
Vine and vired and Wine and wired and Shrine and shade 
Fear and fade and Line and lied and Spine and spied and
Time and tide

Much admired and Acts inspired and
Lost inside and Totally wired and
Petrified 
Events conspired and
Odds defied
Paternal pride 
Reluctant bride 
Secrets confide and Warm inside
False override
Gentrified
Personified
Occupied and
Time and tide

Withering looks
Dithering minds

Won’t somebody think of the children?

Time & Tide

...and so the first post-truth decade ends

Decade's End

perfectly timed for when nobody can go out, a dance track for you delectation, with accompanying rant

thunderous sax courtesy of Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

They won’t be voting for the cause 
You’ll have to settle for applause
A charity sing-song day
Is your substitute for pay
The biggest thank-you yet
Is worth more than a safety net
They won’t be voting for the cause
You’ll have to settle for applause

They can grandstand and preen
Be robust as they please
But bravado won’t protect them
From this insolent disease

They measure worth and quality 
By the size of your salary
Behind the claps and bonhomie
Lie contempt and hypocrisy
As they smile and they pledge
Your left to wriggle on a knife’s edge
And as they lie and they blunder
Hold on tight to your silent thunder

Silent Thunder (this insolent disease)

a track remixed, reimagined, regurgitated...

with sensual sax by Jonathan O'Gara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)

if/when C÷M ever get around to playing live, it will sound like this...

Quorum Sensing (2020 Vision)

Curvaceous saxophone courtesy of Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
Video: https://youtu.be/vNYwDHQgydM

You wake, with senses opaque, to the fuse of your muse, confused by the shape of things that have gone, departed, confined, but with saccharine grief left behind, and the certainty that you find in the memory banks of the past, you contrast with the doubts and the fear of what horrors are yet to appear, but the now and the here is a shape that you cannot control, and it shifts and it squirms as you grasp to try and make sense of the present tense

And it takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve
And it takes all your nerve to flatten the area under the curve

The Curve

To mark 5 years on SoundCloud, this is a repost of the track that has had the most likes (with some minor changes)
For video, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiNS5SmiOCQ
Download from https://craigwinstanley.bandcamp.com/track/a-thin-slice-of-reality

A Thin Slice of Reality (2020)

The flute on this little ditty was played by Jonathan Ogara (@allopenelectrics) 
Still waiting...

The here that’s always wrong
The now that’s much too long
Waiting for you, still waiting

The day remains unseized
The crowd remains unpleased
Waiting for you, still waiting

The time that’s never called
The action plan forestalled
Waiting for you, still waiting

The target never reached
Destination unimpeached
Waiting for you, still waiting

The curtain never raised
The mission reappraised
Waiting for you, still waiting for you

Waiting For You

A combination of bemused rantings into the disinterested void & ambient doodling. Visit https://craigwinstanley.online I would like to create dark impenetrable experimental music, but I'm too fond of melody...
Bandcamp: https://cdividebym1.bandcamp.com/

Also see collaboration with Jonathan Ogara (https://soundcloud.com/allopenelectrics)
https://soundcloud.com/cdividebym

Other collaborations with the wonderful Augenmerk (https://soundcloud.com/augenmerk; https://soundcloud.com/augenmerk/from-the-inside-of-being_craif-winstanley-augenmerk) and Lemonade: https://soundcloud.com/lemonadelove/red-queen-by-craig-winstanley-ft-lemonade-1

Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kakGLRTbV9o

MintFam community: https://soundcloud.com/mintfam.
Exclusive track (Smoothing the Wrinkled Front): https://soundcloud.com/mintfam/craig-winstanley-craig-smoothing-the-wrinkled-front

All tracks created using guitars, keyboard (midi) and Presonus Studio One Artist software.  Oh, and sometimes a microphone.

On here since October 2015.  

I've never really understood musical "genres".

Craig Winstanley

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