ALL TOGETHER NOW!!

You've called on me to sing a song
I'll see what I can do
I won't say that it's good or bad
I'll leave that up to you.
My song I'll lay before you
and this i do declare
There's no-one in this place like me
With a head of
GINGER HAIR!

Ginger Hair

A re-imagining of a much loved song we used to play in my old band Wayland in the early 90s. Music made from scratch entirely with Garageband for iPad.
Recorded my vocals at Plymouth Music Collective studios (not in my car this time !) 24.07.12 with friendly engineer "Doc" who really put me at ease.
Lyrics were by our bass player Andy Tiller (used with kind permission from him) and spoken excerpts based on "The Ballad of the White Horse" by G.K. Chesterton 1911.
This song was inspired by the ancient and mysterious White Horse hillside chalk carving at Uffington UK.

White Horse 2012

[Spoken Intro]
Before the Gods that made the Gods
Had seen their Sunrise pass
The white horse of the white horse vale
Was cut from Britain’s grass

[Instrumental Build up 1]

[Verse 1]
White horse, white horse
Thought we knew you so well
But it seems to us that you’ve
A different tale to tell
Are you the guardian of 
The ancient Druids spell ?

[Verse 2]
I wonder can you see
Just how this world has changed ?
This place we call our home
Suddenly seems so strange
So we look to you now
The spirit of a bygone age

[Chorus]
Where do you run to ?
Where do you go ?
Oh oh white horse
Oh oh white horse

[Verse 3]
How are your eyes so blind
To the bitterness we’ve caused
In the name of progress
We’ve forgotten natures laws
And the ship of fools
Must turn aside on her course

[Chorus]
Where do you run to ?
Where do you go ?
Oh oh white horse
Oh oh white horse

[Spoken Break]
When all philosophies shall fail
This word alone shall fit
That a sage may feel too small for life
And a fool too large for it

And though skies alter & empires melt
This word shall still be true
If we would have the horse of old
Scour ye the horse anew

[Instrumental Build up 2]

[Verse 4]
Standing all alone
Looking out across this land
Maybe now the time has come
For us to make our stand
And fight the hatred
That lies on either hand

[Verse 5]
White horse, white horse
Release us from this pain
And the years of tears
We’ve cried them all in vain
Oh will you help our people
Love this land again ?

[Extended Chorus]
Where do you run to ?
Where do you go ?
Oh oh white horse
Oh oh white horse
Oh oh white horse
Oh oh white horse

[Spoken Outro]
And right to the red torchlight
From the misty morning grey
They stripped the white horse of the grass
As they strip it to this day

Music & Vocals by Nathan Jon Tillett 2012

Words by Andrew Tiller

Vocal melody by Dave Blakesley

Spoken extracts from “The Ballad of the White Horse” by G.K. Chesterton 1911


White Horse

Let me take you on a journey, to outer space....and inner space.

A Prog rock/Space-rock odyssey inspired by a traditional Russian language marching song by composer Lev Knipper in 1933 called "Polyushka-Polye", also known as "Meadowlands".

Video version here :
https://youtu.be/Z8ozrNRI6bc

Music made on an iPad2 with the following apps :
Voice Synth : Vocoder,
Thumbjam : Mellotron choir, Mellotron flutes and Sax
Sunrizer : Big Strings
Space Wiz : Generative soundscapes
Garageband : drums, guitars, bass, lead synths
Hokusai : audio editing.

Hope you enjoy, one for headphones in the dark. Comments welcome.

Lyrics : Star Fields © Nathan Jon Tillett  2012

Star fields, deep fields,
We crossed the bridge of space and time,
Solar winds scatter our forgotten dreams now dust,
Realities entwine.

Star fields, deep fields,
We left the fabric frayed and torn,
Soaked in the blood of dying stars still screaming light,
A universe reborn.


StarFields

Recorded at Dolly Delights Spooktacular Spooktacular on 4.10.12 at Annabels.

Live Show: Favourite Things And The Worm Song WAV version

The Mistletoe Bough was written by Thomas Haynes Bayley in the 1880s and is based on a traditional folk story told at Christmas. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Mistletoe_Bough

The Mistletoe Bough : Trad.Argh. Song For Christmas 2012

My attempt at a dark and gothic rock style. 
Music made with Garageband for iPad and Mac.
A lot of effort in this one, I'd love to know what you think.

Video Version here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPm3vDBAhAQ

Lyrics based on “The Cruel Maid” by the incredible 17th Century English Poet Robert Herrick.

"No More, But So"

--AND, cruel maid, because I see 
You scornful of my love, and me,
 I'll trouble you no more, but go 
My way, where you shall never know 
What is become of me; there I
Will find me out a path to die,
 Or learn some way how to forget
 You and your name for ever;--yet

 Here I go hence, know this from me,
 What will in time your fortune be;
 This to your coyness I will tell; 
And having spoke it once, Farewell. 
--The lily will not long endure, 
Nor the snow continue pure; 
The rose, and violets decay 
And fade you must as well as they.

 And it may chance that love may turn,
 And, like to mine, make your heart burn 
When you shall see that I am dead,
 For pity let a tear be shed; 
Next hollow out a tomb to cover
 Me, the most despised lover;
 And write thereon, THIS, READER, KNOW; 
LOVE KILL'D THIS MAN. No more, but so.

Ginger Hair

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