Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Bones of the Poor

https://youtu.be/BatGBByxnBY?si=EnhiWHFSIMM52FhC 

Im really sick of seeing how the drugs are destroying lives and how the music industry is contaminated with this garbage lyrics that promote drugs, I decided to send a different message to our community, I’m preying God give the positive attitude for many people to get out of addiction.

Drugs gonna kill your brain

Something like a quarter of the people you looked at today will have some form of mental health issue this year.

Far more than that will be seriously impacted by the mental health struggles of their loved ones.

I made this for someone very special.  

Seemed more honest done in one take.
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Glide Path

Breaking of the snow
Turns my head, to face the west
Where memories play for show
They never rest.
Eyes are clouding down
The more I hide, the less I smile
Saddest clown
For miles and miles.

Portrait of my face
Staring back, from times long past
The blackest space
Where my shadow’s cast.
Conversation stalls
Me and I, in fractured sense,
Childhood’s pall
On emotion’s fence

And where from here?
And when to there?
And what of fear?
And who should care?
And why the tears?
And whose despair?
And how to see,
What once was me?

Water kissing salt
Cry of pain, dissolves my mind
It’s all my fault
Crevasses of the conscious kind
Sharpest form of dark
Biting hard, my ego’s lip
Laser stark
As focus slips
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Photo by Cherry Laithang on Unsplash

Glide Path

Words and Music by Roger Whittlesey. Arranged by Whittlesey and Audric Jankauskas. Guitar and synth by Jankauskas. All other sounds by Whittlesey. ©2024

Dear Reader, 

What is existence? Who made time? Is there a governing force? These are questions that cannot be answered with any certainty. Humankind has spent thousands of years creating stories to answer these questions and there are as many answers as there are cultures. 

When something good happens, there is a tendency for some to thank a deity. But what about when something bad happens? Some will say that this event was the deity's doing too, and that it is all part of some grand plan. 

I prefer not to twist myself into a pretzel attempting to apply logic to what are leaps of faith. And so, I follow science as it attempts to get closer to truth. In this song, I apply—in a whimsical way—a religious trope (Say Amen) to what is my secular belief. I encourage all to follow their own beliefs, whether sacred or secular. I cast no aspersions no matter what your beliefs, so long as those beliefs do not impinge upon the beliefs and freedoms of others. 

My special thanks to Audric Jankauskas for joining me on this song. His immense talent as a guitarist may be known to those of you who have heard him play on several of my other songs, but you should also know of his great musicianship, arranging and compositional skills. Audric added those beautiful angular lines toward the end of the song, which I think are so cool. 

This has been a great summer for me. I've had the opportunity to collaborate with at least 12 other musicians—talented players and singers from all around the globe. The autumn approaches, but the music will continue—I still have much more music that I am eager to release. 

Thank you for your continued support.

All My Best, 

Roger Whittlesey
August 2024

Say Amen

For this latest collaboration, Liam and I alternated writing eight measures at a time for two of the four voices in the composition; the other person would then harmonize the prior person's work and add an additional eight measures.

Prior collaborations: https://soundcloud.com/liamhynestawawalkingears

Liam's Soundcloud account: https://soundcloud.com/liam-hynes-tawa

Sinistranda (Collaboration with Liam Hynes-Tawa)

Voyager 2
Arturia 
Serum Synths 
Voyager 2 space probe launched 1977 and its journey through Space.

Voyager 2

video out now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcsGMIbevLw
a collage of Fritz Langs colorisation ofMetropolis as visual background.

noxpox - honky dramatics     !!!see video link in description!!!


Lyrics:
I had binoculars so fine,
To watch the birds, they were divine.
But feathered friends, with mischief keen,...

Stole them away, a birdy scene.
They built their nest, up in the tree,
And hid my glasses, wild and free.
Now I can't see the birds so clear,
My feathered thieves, it's quite unfair.


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From the Inktober 2024 drawing challenge I add some musical colors to the drawings. Each day of October a new drawing needs to be created and posted. see my playlist “Inktober 2024 short tracks”


Inktober 2024 05.Binoculars-Valentino

From the Inktober 2024 drawing challenge, I add some musical colours to the drawings. Each day of October, a new drawing needs to be created and posted. see my playlist “Inktober 2024 short tracks”

Inktober 2024 06.Trek-Valentino

尾崎紀世彦 - また逢う日まで (cover)

New song written by David Cooper and Glen Granthem.

Music - Glen Granthem
Lyrics - David Cooper

All instruments - Glen Granthem
All vocals - David Cooper

Watch video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP8Lievat3g

From the new album The stories that we tell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mdGD8gSUC4gYRKKk6GT2dVYW4p86DcLx8

Lyrics by David Cooper:

She waits on the railway platform 
Same time every night
She takes her usual seat and waits there
But the train never arrives

She’s been waiting there a long time 
It’s all she can do
Wishing for her man to come home
But it never comes true

Chorus

For forty years she’s been there
Been waiting for that train 
And wishes her dreams will come true
But it never comes, it never comes

He went to war; it seems a long time 
A long time ago
But she only sees it one way
In her mind, it’s like yesterday

Chorus

Solo

Break

He’s never coming home etc

She gets up and makes her way home
With tears in her eyes
And the one thing that she knows
Waiting is futile

He’s never coming home etc

He's never coming home (Cooper/Granthem Collaboration with Video)

Caerffili based Celtic/Pagan/Folk/Rock musician, solo, or sometimes with Osian and Windfucker.
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Bones of the Poor

Adrian Y Gof