perfectly imaginative setting for this poem

nice sequencing with the 960, well done !

Beautiful piece ! 🙏 😍 🍀 🎶 🎧 

love your use of those arps...good to hear you not try to fill the space too but let it breathe...

Love the sparsity - adds to the impact of the lyricism. Fantastic, moving.

a unique pairing of music and verse. good work.

The words and meanings weave nicely with the absorbing soundscape

Poem/Lyrics by Andre Veilleux:
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-life-of-death-or-the-death-of-life/

So my question to you is simple and yet sharp as a knife,
Are you living a life of death or the death of your life?
Is death coming suddenly, or are you just wasting away?
Which of these morose questions holds the truth I cannot say,
With one hand you're watching your life decay,
On the other you're waiting for your last day,
Whichever of these statements you feel is true,
The end of your life is all it comes down to.

Artwork : "Queen's choice" by Michael Cheval
https://no.pinterest.com/pin/99853316728365745/

Choices [Lyrics by Andre Veilleux]

Band 4

Song by Robert Burns
Vocals and Instrumentals by Layna Claunch

My love is like a red, red rose
   That’s newly sprung in June
My love is like a melody
   That’s sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lad
   So deep in love am I
And I will love thee still, my dear
   Till all the seas gang dry

Till all the seas gang dry, my love
   And the rocks melt with the sun
I will love thee still, my dear
   While the sands of life shall run

But fare thee well, my only love
   But fare thee well awhile
And I will come again, my love
   Though t'were ten thousand mile

My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose

This song was recorded as a collaboration between two home studios. My friend Greg Bartlett played drums. My friend Dean Constance played bass.

The Serpent & The Bellman

intro ( lofi remix )

Afro-funk II

Project RESIDUE (As the Crow Flies)

I met Dave Bayes on soundcloud, with his beautiful compositions and excellent guitarplay. We had already worked together. I needed a beautiful instrumental and he needed a voice,...look what happened. Hope you like it!

Zen warrior lyrics

I’m not the kind of girl
That you see in me
I not even come close to who you want me to be
You see in me some kind of fighter in your fantasy
You call me zen warrior
Well it isn’t me, it isn’t me it isn’ t me , no  no

I’m mostly calm and at ease, my breath is deep as a soft slow breeze
Live and let live, avoid the negative
I am I am I am totally zen
(4x)

You never see me start a fight
but don’t attack me
Don’t touch my basic right 
Wanna stay out of trouble
Don’t wanne make it double
Zen warrior zen warrior

Zen Warrior (collab Dave Bayes X Saskia Goethals)

'Maybe Another Time' a Jazz Fusion track that I recorded some time ago and overlooked. So here it is now and hopefully you'll enjoy the listen.
Alan

Or Is It All An Illusion

Maybe Another Time

The Lantern Fouling the Brittle Air, Listening to the Dog and the Echo

method: first, I created a shaman-monk-version (mostly ‚Gregorian‘ voice and jaw harp) on cassette tape (this is where some of the noise - especially in the first section - derives from) and zoom r20 with a vacuum-tube pre-amp for the voice ….. all of which I then treated like a field recording sample in Samplitude - sculpting it with vst instruments and effects. 
narration: it feels like I have sonified this poem a million times before …. which might be the case because I have lived through it that often - I and others I dearly care for …. but then again … I might have actually done so. it is also part of the cycle SONIC CASCADE published in  A SINGLE LOOP OF FORTUNES. Alternative titles are ‚TWO-PLACE‘ and ‚04s SAMPLE‘. For this publication, I simplify the title to  ‚SAMPLE‘.
Image: copyright jo richter. you see some of the instruments used in the shaman-monk-version, arranged with a bracelet as though displayed in a museum. 

poem / copyright jo richter:

two-place sleeps on the ground
and still doesn‘t know where it is -
all of its strings sound sound
in heaven-hellish bliss -
nothing, it says, goes amiss
that doesn‘t want to be found

sample

My account is resting. Only occasionally posting or managing the account. I'll be back! 
 Keep the world a sane place and thanks for listening!

And...Putin, go fuck yourself!!!

Choices [Lyrics by Andre Veilleux]

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