Fantastic folk rock piece! Beautiful dissonances here and there!

Written, performed and recorded by Neli CoKo, 2023, all rights reserved. Thank you for listening :) 
Photography by Elijah O´Donnell https://www.pexels.com/de-de/@elijahsad/
Lyrics:
Sitting in a taxi
It is dark outside
Looking out the window
At pictures passing by

I´m just passing by in a taxi
In a capsule

Houses, cars and people
In grey, black and white
Look so large and distant
In electric light

I´m just passing by in a taxi
In a capsule

Neonlights and dim glow
Abstract sighs of light
In lonesome lost places
Attract creatures of the night. 

I´m just passing by in a taxi
In a capsule

Cab Ride

Neli CoKo - Cab Ride

Indie rock with a 80’s/90’s vibe …

Start (How did you know ) written Oct 2023 

I’ll start from the beginning 
I was surrounded by love 
And it all became too much 
When I Stood on the cusp 
Of adulthood 
I can see it was never enough 

You had no support but you still remained
The most positive person I’ve ever seen constrained 

How did you know 
I’d hide if love took control
How did you know 
It would all take it’s toll 

You stopped me in my tracks 
I had never felt such a force 
It told me I should reason 
With my darkest thoughts 
Because in the light 
Is where life is taught 

You had no support but you still remained
The most innocent person I’ve seen restrained  
 
How did you know 
I’d hide if love takes control
How did you know 
It would all take it’s toll

Start

See also: 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/0bREnowKOP8TeEFgWd0MWe?si=1TSN2KDZTLu3LRi1pxYHYA
Youtube (with Scores): https://youtu.be/OEr_OsCbRMg

This laid back song takes its course without many surprises, just like a afternoon where you have nothing specific to do. Your mind wanders around from here to there, not really resting on a specific topic but without haste thinking about this and that.

Compositionwise: Most of the song plays with a delay of an eigth beat between the left and the right hand. Typically, the right hand follows the left hand thus creating a relaxed and laid back feeling. However, at times, the delay when playing shifted quarter beats in the left and right, leads to the music sounding more agitated though both hands have actually relatively slow metrums. (e.g. @ 0.35 or @ 1:20). The main motive arrives three times in the song in different variations with a relatively long (@ 1:10-@ 2:40) middle part that touches on  prelude-like as well as song-like elements. 

The track has been recorded on a Roland FP-90 and mastered in Cubase relatively puristically by just adding  reverb and fiddling a bit with the EQ. I currently find that other effects such as Compressor or Stereo Enhancer do not necessarily improve the sound. But might change that opinion again when I gain more experience ... :-)
The picture was created with Stable Diffusion.

Silent Tuesday (Solo Piano)

A song about a long-distance relationship.

MAYBE SOMEDAY (c) JunkHeap Jan 26 2024

She loves him, he loves her.
Living far away from one another due to circumstance.
Occasions where they meet and their love blossoms.
The hardest time is being apart when you so want to see them.

She doesn't have the money, he's flat broke.
Travel seldom happens, but they won't flow apart.
So they speak through their phones;
work hard for the next time when they can hold each other, 
so, so close,
lost in the moment.

Their love it makes them work so much harder,
to live together and share their worlds.
Maybe someday, but not today.
 
The crescendo building 
near Iguazu Falls in Argentina,
that's where he wants to say the words to her.

She dreams of the quiet of an old growth forest in BC, 
let the trees share their wisdom, 
while they stare in each others eyes.
She's not going to lie, she melts when he looks deep.

Br.

Maybe someday.
Sippin’ hot chocolate on a train going to nowhere, 
holding hands...
Sleeping in on a rainy day, making sure not to plan anything, 
so difficult these days.
Their hearts feel, and they can dream.  
It'll happen where they can both meet, and be together,
be together, forever.
Maybe someday.

Their love it makes them work so much harder,
to live together and share their worlds.
Maybe someday, but not today.

uh, uh, uh ohh...

outro.

Maybe Someday

Translated after French text

Vidéo YouTube :  https://youtu.be/bThqxsUetr0

Nous ...
Texte de Say M
Chant : Julia
Musique : Alain Illos 

Nous,
Ne les écrirons jamais
Ces paroles qui nous aiment
Mais qui nous ont menées
Vers un jardin d'ébène
Aux amours végétés
N'y entre que la peine
Que des vœux oubliés
Nous,
Ne nous obligerons jamais
À recouvrir de haine
Nos pas ensoleillés
Autour de l'Aquitaine
Et d'une vierge dorée*
Témoin de nos "Je t'aime"
De nos rêves échangés
Nous,
Ne remplacerons jamais
Au parfum de l'hiver
Tous nos troublants étés
Au devant de la scène
Cet enfant désiré
Qui ne sera la sève
De notre amour vidé
Nous,
Ne les écrirons jamais
Ces paroles qui nous aiment
Mais qui nous ont menées
Vers un jardin d'ébène
Aux amours végétés
N'y entre que la peine
Que des vœux oubliés
Nous,
Ne le deviendrons jamais
Nous,
Ne le deviendrons jamais

We...
We will,
Will never write them
These words that love us
But have led us
To an ebony garden
To vegetated loves
Only sorrow enters
Only forgotten vows
We'll never
Will never make us
To cover with hate
Our sunny steps
Around Aquitaine
And a golden virgin*
Witness to our "I love you" moments
Of our shared dreams
We'll never
Will never replace
To the perfume of winter
All our troubling summers
To the front of the stage
This longed-for child
Who will never be the sap
Of our emptied love
We will,
Will never write
These words that love us
But have led us
To an ebony garden
To vegetated loves
Only sorrow enters
Only forgotten vows
And we,
Will never become
We'll never
Will never become

Nous .... avec Julia

Wait A Whale2

Pacing4

Little Dove

Sung better!

Cheesy Russian guitar removed from the start and replaced with distorted electric! Way better...

The heavy breathing is my pea brain attempt to be in solidarity with the humans in fear of getting bombed and shivering and the people that have to bear the cold winters there, fighting... So damn sad

I wrote this around the start of 2024 not long after meeting a family who had driven from Ukraine, Mariupol to Ireland for refuge. Their family and ours were buying Christmas trees at the same time and I noticed the reg and swooped in for a little welcome. I had followed as close as isn't depressing the war but that was a dagger and I'd say the biggest thing that spawned the tune. 

The contrast of their life and mine was a great perspective even if I only saw them for 30 secs...

The outro is a bit different. It takes a few of my favourite artists and sheds their light on the situation. In my head I am saying, ok here are a group of people that I love for their music and if they were in charge we wouldn't have this mess... A pipe dream of course but one worth singing about as aligned with the knob end causing all this He needs a good bit of real soul to stop this shit show on Ukraines land. Also artistically it connects loads of my inspirations to the idea I think now subtlety enough to work and makes it super powerful in my head anyways. In my head I'm using all their power too to help stop this shit! In the song and in my head! But I'm mad!... Wait I'm even more mad.... eh em... what if all the artists heard it and said ahhh that's average..m we should all help him out... Might need to replace Jeff.& a good few others but sure we could think of something plenty of soul out there... 321 and you're back in the room...

But the war is mad... So balance and all that jazz! Still feels so strange that it's happening there in 2024... I really hope Ukrainians get the peace they deserve and all their land back with as little more pain as possible for everybody 🕯️🇺🇦

Love you Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🕊️🙏🏻🙏🏿🕊️🙏🏻🕊️

Lyrics

Earths yeast on the rise
Now our skies are burning
And our sons and daughters are learning
To kill or die in that hell fire

Why? What is this greed formed from a creed…
Don’t you see no one here gets freed
The autocrat just fogs the lights
Here’s some inside

So its less yeast
For our beast out east
Should we make friends?
Hell no he’ll just do it again
This time,
We won’t cry
One man to purge
Put in his p45

Why? What is this greed formed from a creed…
You see no one here gets freed!
Don’t you see no one lights

Where’s your inside?
Bold Barman buddha
Raged Reznor razor
Voiced Vedder flutter
Mind Morrison mutter
Yearned Yorke photo
The Bat for Lashes show
Harvey’s hints, bravo!
Perry’s got to know
Jeff the real devine
Good Winter fell in line
Layne went for all time
Bowie left the king of pine

For peace
From all land
We watch Ukraine transcend
Come on  Russia, Don't pretend...
Where's the revolution my friends


Original song version here:
https://on.soundcloud.com/wvQpJ

YEast 🙏🏽🕊️

gravity ., vol- 3-

Yorkshire

Love many kinds of music, try myself to bring out some spiritual and soulful tunes to reflect or simply to have fun in producing. Doing nightshifts so sometimes if I can focus and "enjoy" and when its a silent night I can listen halfway carefully or in the morning I repeat and hear via headphones without interrupt and in a very relaxed mood, often till my handy fell on my face 

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