wolves

Recently discovered, not neccesarily recent releases.
For curious musicians.

Check january 2021

UK Songwriter Forum - January 2021

Great Sacred Music

this song originally written
by my friend firecat9, 
altered, produced n performed by yours truly. 
a link to the original 

https://soundcloud.com/aineparkes/fold-yourself-away
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fold yourself away

start to dig deep
mud up to your elbow
what will will people think?
the truth's hard to swallow
and lies leave you hollow

fold yourself away

is that really you?
standing by the window
reflections of time
your body's in limbo
but there is no sin

fold yourself away

don't stop and fall
don't get into trouble
break through the wall
step out of he rubble
a body double

fold yourself away
fold yourself away   
fold yourself away

________________

firecat9 / rightly

Fold yourself awaY

I'm right here

you are not me, remain indoors, 
or better still switch off the lights
on all that's yours
on all that's yours

th' back n' forth, this time today
when there is love, th' vain an' th' proud
will fade away
eventually

the darker arts, must not prevail
they try to break your heart, don't let them in
behind the veil
behind the veil

I'll hold my breath, I bend and break
there is no blue that is equal to
the love we make,
the thought of you

before your feet, I am right here
I know you will love me, if the whole world
should disappear
I will be here

I'm right here

I'm Right Here

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with music from St Martin's Voices, directed by Andrew Earis and Gabriella Noble with organist Ben Giddens

Music:
A Cosmic Prayer – Cooman
Morning glory, starlit sky – Barry Rose
The Ground from ‘Sunrise Mass’ – Ola Gjeilo
Fly me to the moon – Bart Howard

Thursday 22nd July - Fly me to the Moon

wolves

we fall back on clichés at times like this,
I'd rather fall back with you instead,
onto the footpath, we could talk things over,
a forest of people moving over-head
but you don't want a little world,
an everywhere scenario, or not with me, not now

besides your hurrying for work and the words we use,
aren't words so much as cries,
just random sounds for all the stuff
we can't talk about, not yet,
but you don't want a little world,
an everywhere scenario, not with me, not now

not words so much as wolves
they hide behind the sunlit city buildings,
getting closer, dodging through the traffic and the crowds,
they gather in a circle around us,
howling, howling, howling, and when you leave,
they follow me back home

_____________________

Written by Ciaran Parkes, Aine Parkes & Rightly

Production by Rightly

W o l v  e S

Come to the end of the day

Inertia

Nadine Shah's album Fast Food is Released April 6th 2015.
Pre Order here:
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TOUR DATES: 
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Friday April 10th Brighton Haunt
Sat April 11th Gateshead Old Town Hall
Sun April 12th Travel day
Mon April 13th Glasgow King Tuts
Tues April 14th Manchester Deaf Institute (travel after the show)
Weds April 15th Day off london
Thursday April 16th london Olso 
Friday April 17th Bristol Exchange 
Saturday April 18th Birmingham Rainbow
  
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The inimitable Nadine Shah has announced her return with the majestic rush-of-a-track ‘Stealing Cars’. Following the critically acclaimed debut album Love Your Dum and Mad in 2013, opening for Bat for Lashes and Depeche Mode and playing live for Vivienne Westwood's Red label London Fashion Week show, her new single is a statement of intent - 2015 could be hers for the taking.

‘Stealing Cars’ is a yearning, tender yet billowing thing of smoky wonder. A heady mix of clattering percussion, serrated guitar lines, minimal yet addictive piano refrains, and those all-important enigmatic vocals; it will be ringing in your ears for days.

‘Stealing Cars’ is out now via Apollo (UK: http://found.ee/ZIycR / US: http://found.ee/wjPcV) and a full album will follow in early 2015.

The track was once again recorded at The Pool in London with Peter Jobson (I am Kloot), Nick Webb and Ben Hillier – who oversaw production duties.

Praise for Nadine Shah:
‘Love Your Dum and Mad is astonishingly coherent’ Sunday Times ‘Album of the Week’
'It’s utterly magnetic. There are few albums that will make you experience so many emotions concurrently, and even fewer that will still give you chills hours later' 8/10 ‘Album of the Week’ The Line of Best Fit
‘An assured launch of a career that will provoke and explore in the style of Bjork or PJ Harvey’
‘Stand Out Album’ 4/5 Daily Mirror
‘Cosy and cataclysmic all at the same time, this is one of the most compelling expressions of Great British gothic since Morrissey made a date at the cemetery gates’ 4/5 Time Out
'Subtle electronics and the creation of desolate, 3-D spaces is the icing on a seductively ruined cake' 8/10 Uncut
'A piercingly direct seduction of the senses' 4/5 Mojo
‘The voice of a goddess’ 4/5 Evening Standard
'Nadine Shah’s voice is a revelation' 4/5 The Skinny
‘A dark, delicious masterpiece’ Diva
'An album that beguiles and bruises at every turn' DIY
'An extraordinarily delectable noise to behold' London in Stereo
‘Shah is clearly going to be around for some time’ 7.4/10 ‘Record of the Day’ Bowlegs
‘Expect her to be next year’s critics’ darling’ The Independent
'Her dark tales of lust, loss and vengeance bring to mind Broken English-era Marianne Faithfull and are due belated critical acclaim’ The Guardian
(Love Your Dum and Mad) retains a dynamism through Shah's magnetic voice’ 7.9 Pitchfork

Fast Food

Stealing Cars

STEALING CARS

MAAT is Agitation Φ Astarte 23 & Myrh
https://maatphianamyrh.bandcamp.com/

music . Agitation Φ @user-674764601 @agitationphi @user-311133327 @user-723302254 @user-454806171

singing & vocal mix / lyrics / cover art & design : Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

december 29 2018
vocal mix improved jan 3 & jan 6 2019

Timeless Memory - MAAT

Lyrics:

When she walked in the bar, man, I knew we were in for trouble.
She put her finger to her lip and said; thanks I will take a double.
Now with whiskey on her side, she will go where the mood dictates her.
Now let’s let the evening slide,
consequences are for later.

So she steps onto the floor, lets the pulse of the music take her.
And she’s moving to the beat, It’s a primal stimulator. 
The need is waking up inside, she’s unable to sedate it.
So let’s keep it simple now, we don’t need to complicate it.

Some decisions must be made, because the morning’s getting closer.
You know the danger is that you could wind up on a missing poster.
But how do you resist when everything’s conspired to trap you?
And you’ve really got to choose because now she’s going to ask you.

Keep it together, keep it together

EP01

Keep It Together (Mix 5)

AVONDWINKEL

Original Lyrics by Heidi-Marie
Music Produced by ARAPA Music Studios - Sydney, Australia
Mastered by Heidi-Marie Arapa

Something tells me
That we’ve gotta 
Gotta be patient

There isn’t a lot 
we can do
All we have to do 
Is patience

Something tells me
Something tells me
We’ve gotta be patient
Gotta be patient

Something tells me
We’ve gotta
Gotta be patient

Something tells me 
That we’ve gotta be patient

Something
Keeps telling me
Something
Telling me
Something’s telling me
We’ve gotta be patient
Gotta be patient

Gotta be pushin
It ain’t gonna get easy
Gotta 
We’ve gotta be patient
We’ve gotta keep
on pushin
Forwards

Something Tells Me (Feat. Heidi-Marie)

Dedicated To A Most Wonderful Man, Nigel Bateman. RIP.
Produced By Martin Reed.

Mysteries Of The Blim

Cold Moon in December 
(c) 2021 Linda E. Lucas and Shane D. Dunne

Cold moon in December 
Last one of the year 
Soft snow on hard ground 
Silence in my ear

Sleeping and forgetting 
Don’t mean the same thing 
Mirrors can be teachers 
Other times they sting

I hold on to your breathing 
It keeps my heart alive 
Nothing ever changes that
 It won’t change when I die

Ringing out the old year 
Ringing in the new 
Hanging on for dear life
 Thankful I’m with you

Cold moon in December
 In the silence of the snow 
Days are getting longer 
This I know

We happily remember 
To happily forget 
Ringing out the old year 
Paying down bad debt

And if you go before me 
To the place we cannot see
 I will be here waiting 
And you will wait for me

So I hold on to your breathing 
My lifeboat in the storm 
I’ll see you in the morning 
And we’ll be safe and warm

Cold moon in December 
Last one of the year
 Soft snow on hard ground 
Silence in my ear

Ringing out the old year 
Ringing in the new 
Hanging on for dear life 
Thankful I’m with you

Cold Moon In December

Song written by Firecat
https://soundcloud.com/aineparkes

what's wrong with you?

everything / anything

She thought that husband number one, was the one
But she was wrong.
She couldn't control
Wouldn't do what he's told.
He decided to act
Now she's after the fact.

She found husband number two
She liked what she thought she could get him to do.
She told him lies
Clouded his eyes.
He could avenge
She needed revenge.

So husband two planted a bomb, to kill number one
And when it went wrong
He was in the frame
A pawn in her game
Put away for some time 
For doing her Crime

Now she's looking for man number three
He must have the connections, that is the key
You could be the one
If you get the job done
If you just find a way
She's willing to pay.

Oh Elizabeth, demanding death
It's not yours to take
Oh Elizabeth, get on with your life

Oh Elizabeth 
Let him take, another breath
Oh Elizabeth, get on with your life

Now Elizabeth 
We've seen the way, you operate
For your own sake
Why don't you wake?
It's time to accept
People cannot be kept

What was the sequence that twisted your mind -
To make you so blind?
And will we find
If we walk in your shoes
We'd be able to choose?
And not abdicate
To a life full of hate

Oh Elizabeth, demanding death
It's not yours to take
Oh Elizabeth, get on with your life

Oh Elizabeth 
Let him take, another breath
Oh Elizabeth, get on with your life

Black Widow

Background

This is my take on an old traditional song. The earliest reference I've discovered is around 1847.  It supposedly had other titles 'The Grinders' and 'The Saddle on the Right Horse'  

It is a vivid description of the lot of Sheffield Grinders, working and often dying early in life due to their trade. The 'Grinding Hull's' mentioned in the lyrics were grim places, full of particles of metal and dust from the grinding wheels. Historical evidence suggests boys were often apprenticed from nine to twelve years of age.

Through my working career I was employed in the Steel Industry engaged in scientistic work and environmental research, quite a bit of it related to occupational health problems, So it is no surprise to me and very fitting that I wanted to get this song recorded. As a Sheffield lad born and bred it connects for me I guess. 

Apparently a version of this traditional song was recorded by 'The Ian Campbell Group' in 1972 and the band 'Afterhours' from their eponymous cassette only album from 1988. After hearing the 'Afterhours' 1988 version, I decided to work up a DADGAD guitar arrangement of my own.  Here is the result.
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Instrumentation and Arrangement

I wanted a simple arrangement for this song as really it's all about the lyrics and overall message. I used a DADGAD guitar tuning and aimed for a strum pattern that hopefully reflects the cyclical rhythmic quality of the grindstones in use.

After the main vocals was recorded I decided a bit of backing vocals would add a bit of extra spice to the overall song. Sometimes voice and guitar is all you really need. :-)
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The Sheffield Grinder (Lyrics around 1847)
**( with small revisions for this version)
(Photograph taken from the Illustrated London News 1866)

The Sheffield grinder's a terrible blade.
Tally ho, the grinder!
'Fore he sets his little 'uns down to trade.
Tally ho, the grinder!
He sets ‘em all down to grind in the hull,
Till their bodies are stunted and their eyes are dull,
And their brains are all dizzy and dazed in their skulls.
Tally ho, the grinder!

He shortens his life and he hastens his death.
Tally ho, the grinder!
And he’ll drink steel dust with every breath.
Tally ho, the grinder!
And he won't wash his hands ‘ere he eats a meal
And he won’t wear a mask as he grinds at his wheel
And he’ll die as he’s lived, as hard as cold steel.
Tally ho, the grinder!

(Instrumental)

The Sheffield grinders of whom we do speak.
Tally ho, the grinder!
Well they’re men who’ll earn just one pound a week.
Tally ho, the grinder!
But of Sheffield grinders another sort
Methinks ought to be called to court,
Aye, and that’s the grinding Government Board.
Tally ho, the grinder!

At whose door lies the blacker blame?
Tally ho, the grinder!
Oh where lies the heavier weight of shame?
Tally ho, the grinder!
Is it the famine-price contractor's head,
Or on the workman who’s under-fed,
And who grinds his own bones and his children’s for bread?
Tally ho, the grinder!

The Sheffield Grinder

Serendip Lab's 10th anniversary compilation on download here : https://serendiplab.bandcamp.com/album/serendip-lab-10-ans-ser011

In this strange year's ending, and to ward off the curse, Serendip Lab offers you a nice end of year gift ! 

Unfortunately for his 10th birthday the festival did not happen this year. Nevermind, a compilation project with all invited artists since 2010 was born and what a good surprise people did answer the call : more than 90 tracks, reflecting the festival / label eclecticism and its evolution. 
From Pierre Bastien's mechanical music, present for the first year, to KK NULL's cyberpunk, whose cassette was our last release, very diverse scenes and styles are represented : psychedelic rock, post punk, improvised, concrete, industrial or rave music, synthwave, IDM, noise, rap, électro… Coming from all around France (Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Rennes, Lille...), Europe (Suede, Denmark, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy), or the world (USA, Australia, Indonesia, Japan), pioneers or new comers are mixed, as usual, in a huge and generous party, like a big dadaist mutant family.

So thanks a lot to the hundreds of artists who have participate to the adventure since all these amazing years, to the friends, volunteers, a lot of love to the artists in this compilation, and even more to Patrice Curtillat for the mastering, and Jean Turner for the artwork, and at last a stream of love to you all, hope to meet you soon, best wishes !

Compilation Anniversaire Serendip Lab 10 ans

1 heart whole

deeper funk of blue

honey, you've got that voodoo
'can hardly take my eyes off o' you
'feeling like I could move a mountain
with y' here in this deeper funk of blue

it's funny you just say the word
the ticking of the clock does sound absurd
I can finally hear the voice of nature
asking me if I would have the nerve
giving all I get both night and day
working up a sweat to throw it away
 
promise me you'll never be dishonest
ev'ry distance bridged with your promise
left without I wear the crown of doubt
no schoolin' is foolin' me to want this
brighter lights are found in darker nights
let the fall precede the greater heights

here in this deeper
funk of blue

deeper funk of blue


it's easy to be "unique"
one just refrains from making the effort to immitate someone*

*(me, this year)

Blessed be the atheists. 

Any feedback is very welcome. I aim to improve!

Each to their own. 

This dramatisation is inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters, names, businesses, incidents, locations, and events have been fictionalised for dramatic purposes


That’s all for now.

what's wrong with you?

2 Rightly