Amazing sounds & vocals, great space rock

(Written by Terry Reeves)
Terry Reeves: Lead Vocal
Gary Reeves: Drums / Drum arrangement
Hans Albers: All instruments, backing vox, arrangement & production

Cover art by Jooinn.

This is a totally stolen idea gleaned from another one of those phone conversations with my brother Gary. We talk to each other every few days and normally end up sounding like two old men sitting on a park bench putting the World to rights.

I’m sure a lot of what we say has been said many times before (what hasn’t?) but one day, out of the blue, Gal says to me “ Sometimes I find things too difficult to deal with. I would love the opportunity to step off the world for just one second and clear my head a bit...” At the time I just accepted it as the type of thing we say to each other but two days after the phone call the idea of stepping off the world to escape the pressures of daily life returned when I was playing my guitar. The words “I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off” fitted with what I was playing and the start of a new opus was born.

Once a song seems complete, I generally record a quick demo and send it off to Gal to see if it has any potential. If he thinks it has, between us we try to put a better demo together to send to Hans.  If he thinks it’s any good, he’ll work on an arrangement and more often than not sends back something back that sounds way better than what we’d imagined.  

We might chip in a few ideas here and there (as Gal did with a totally new drum arrangement on this) but Hans is definitely the one that gives it most of it’s final shape and sound.  I love every step of the songwriting process.  It provides a kind of therapy and the creative process gives every day purpose and interest.  You could say it’s my way of stepping off the world for a short moment.
(Terry Reeves)

I’m stepping off the world
To give myself a chance
For a moment of reflection
Avoid the need to dance 
One thousand miles per hour
Never firmly on the ground 
Gravity with no connection 
Spinning fast head going round 

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world 

No New Year's Revolution 
Rotating much too fast 
Survival of the fittest
Fittest days are in the past
Step off every Monday
Not back until Tuesday week
One moment makes a difference
Like a lifetime so to speak

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
Stepping off the world

Don’t want to give a reason
Good feelings are oppressed 
Try different constellation 
Laying down has more interest
Stepping off a single second 
With no single past regret
Not a care for single thinking 
Avoid joining one single thread

Stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off
I’m stepping off, I’m stepping off the world
Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world, Stepping off the world...

STEPPING OFF THE WORLD - CRIPPLE CLUB & HANS ALBERS

A.J. Kaufmann is a Polish genre-bender. Weaving folk, noise, and psychedelic rock, he creates a "Strange World" of sound. From heavy riffs to spaced-out soundscapes, his music (albums like "Stoned Gypsy Wanderer") and poetry explore the fringes. Look out for his new single "Ramzes Metamorfozis" and upcoming album on The Swamp Records in December 2024.

https://ajkaufmann.bandcamp.com/

"20 Years"

You Absolute Shovel Sandwich (Version)

The Pièces froides are two sets of piano pieces composed in March 1897 by Erik Satie. Unpublished until 1912 when Ravel played them publicly, they marked Satie's break from the mystical-religious music of his Rosicrucian and Gymnopodies period (1891–95), and were a harbinger of his humoristic piano suites of the 1910s. 

The title Pièces froides, translated as Cold Rooms or Cold Cuts, is a punning allusion to the dire poverty Satie experienced during his last years living in Montmartre. In July 1896, he had been forced to move into an unheated ground floor closet (he called it a "cupboard”. The space was so small that Satie's camp bed all but blocked the door shut, and on frigid nights he kept warm by sleeping fully dressed with the rest of his clothing piled on top of him.

This the second of the two cold pieces: Danses de travers (Crooked Dances)
1. En y regardant à deux fois (Give it a good look)
2. Passer (Go on)
3. Encore (Again)

Here i've arranged the original solo piano for 2 classical guitars, 12-string, celeste, woodwinds & strings.

cover art: Le Repas Frugal by Picasso

Erik Satie, Pièces Froides

TOURNICOTI

Time Traveller

The Big Mistake You Choose . Glenny G's One Man Band.

The One Mistake You Choose ( Original )  Blew the Dust off my old 1970 Hofner today

Remember 

The Walking Session (Jam Session)

N0V4 5T4R

guitar op.1 nº3

INVITATION TO COLLAB >>> MUSICIANS,  BEATMAKERS, SINGERS, RAPPERS ... Who want Can USE & REMIX  those A CAPPELLAS, choice parts you want, place it, modulate it as You like, MAKE A SPECIAL TRACK, with SOUNDS or FIT IT AS A FEAT in a SONG...   LYRICS are Here Below.
DOWNLOAD are FREE & it's in Wave, if You Want MP3, ask me. If You Use My Vocals, Mention My Name in the Track & Let Me Know, I will Repost, Share, Include it in Playlists & Mix...
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LYRICS

Music is in You Music is in Me                                                    
Music is our Philosophy
Don't bother stop it
don't even bother try                                                                                                  
it's part of   Life...
Music all the time

Child yet feel it 
Youth can play it
Elders still make it
Some are famous and wealthy
Some are poor materially 
but so rich artistically....

Music is in You Music is in Me
Music is our Philosophy
Don't bother stop it
don't even bother try
it's part of  Life...
Music Day & Night

Music comes from Deep inside
Expressing the subtile
from Souls to Souls
Music is Vital Entertainement
Must be the Sixth Element....

Music is in You Music is in Me
Music is our Philosophy
Don't bother stop it
don't even bother try
it's part of  Life...
Music all the Time

Music is Voice of People
Sounds of the Earth
Music can make us feel Higher
bring us together

Couldn't live without her....

Music is in You Music is in Me
Music is our Philosophy
Don't bother stop it
don't even bother try
it's part of  Life...
Music day & night

...All the time...

Music is Vital Entertainement
Must be the Sixth Element....

MUSIC PHILOSOPHY / The SIXTH ELEMENT Vocals

NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!
"A.J. Kaufmann's world is strange indeed, serving up a set of ten psychedelic oddities. We've got acoustic guitar and vocal driven psychedelic folk songs bathed in atmospherics, wigged out psycho-folk freakouts, acid drenched space-time distortion, grungy garage-blues, and a noisy instrumental that sounds like an unearthed Faust basement tape track. File under totally trippy!" -- Jerry Kranitz of Aural Innovations. 

https://ajkaufmann.bandcamp.com/album/the-strange-world-of-a-j-kaufmann

A.J. Kaufmann is a Polish genre-bender. Weaving folk, noise, and psychedelic rock, he creates a "Strange World" of sound. From heavy riffs to spaced-out soundscapes, his music (albums like "Stoned Gypsy Wanderer") and poetry explore the fringes. Check out his new album on The Swamp Records!

"Stoned Gypsy Wanderer (2014) – 14 songs on Vinyl LP. This LP captures time. Bard’s Woman in the Cool of the Summer Breeze (2023) – 10 songs on Vinyl LP. It’s fun to see the maturity and development of A.J.’s music over nine years. A music review of 14 songs in the year 2014 and 10 songs from 2023. Kaufmann is a folk troubadour, minstrel and a harbinger of new sounds and thought. There is a theme that runs through this body of work, a method to his madness. All of these songs are a journey. So take the trip and give a listen. Nobody knows it but A.J. Kaufmann is a national treasure of Poland."
-- David Bixby.

"20 Years"

The Strange World of A.J. Kaufmann

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