Haunted By Hip Hop at Level One Up

8/3 2023
Hönö  Gothenburg
Photo: Skeneby

Edge

Other versions:
https://soundcloud.com/albobbidwell/loose-bruce-utica
https://soundcloud.com/albobbidwell/loose-bruce-iii

Loose Bruce [Demoose]

Image created by me.
https://www.deviantart.com/leehon/art/Bake-Kujira-s-Woes-951581025

Crookedness

A real pleasure to present to you perhaps the strangest song I have ever collaborated on. Gary simply sent me a line of prose to be used as an acrostic, where each word is the beginning of a line of lyrics. Nothing else. Blank canvas. The original words are "Show Those Ones You Love That They Are Adored Fully, Encompassed Within My Daily Thoughts Are Peaceful Intentions Towards Them All"

He asked me to make up some lyrics and a melody, any key, then to sing the tune to a click track and he would do the rest. To top it off the title of the song is acronymous - ACRONYM standing for the full title, which is "A collaborative record of nostalgia, yearning (&) memories"

Acronym

Show that I love you and hold all
Those memories close to my heart..those
Ones that we all made together. 
You mean all the world what we call
Love has been from the start..the thing
That will unite us forever. 
They make us gold
Are all we know
Adored until we're old
Fully complete

Encompassed by magic and fire
Within our safe house, desire, yeah 
My future is with you together 
Daily my prayer to our Maker, our
Thoughts mingle sweetly forever 
Are only of one and the other
Peaceful night
Intentions right
Toward the light, hold
Them tight
All complete

I did my usual trick of slapping something down, nipping to Bruges to check that the Trappist Monks were still making beer to my rigorous personal standards and leaving all the heavy lifting to him. Through an elaborate ritual of digital ceremonial magic, electronic alchemy, Job-like patience and wiffle dust he has produced this. Fascinating how he uses tonal and atonal harmony to create tension, power and release, matching it so well to the emotion of the words.

The lyrics are a paean to family and friends, his, mine, yours, ours.
If you've not experienced Gary and Jamie's work, please check them out
https://soundcloud.com/one-other where he has also uploaded this collaboration
https://soundcloud.com/one-other/acronym

As Thom, https://soundcloud.com/esyrup agrees, time is our only enemy. :)

Initial words, music, arrangement and production: Gary
Additional lyrics and Vocals: Nick

Be good, you little rascals

Nick

Pic: Nick (Barry Beach South Wales)

Acronym - ThePhaige and Nicholas Ridiculous

MENDICANTE

Flint Banjo Club

What started as a handful of selfdescribed “banjo nuts” getting together to play after a rough winter in 1967 became a band with more than 50 members

The Flint Banjo Club, is considered one of the best banjo and old time music clubs in the United States. They established a tradition in holding their annual Banjorama, the FBCs primary fundraiser

The club was founded in April 1967 by six banjo enthusiasts from Flint Michigan back when American manufacturing was prosperous and thriving union jobs allowed for workers to retire with pensions, healthcare, and social stability 

“…no doubt as a result of cabin fever resulting from the preceding relentless winter,” wrote C.O. Johnson, one of the original six founders, who was is still strumming away with the ensemble in 2014

The FBC collected a number of awards. Members had diverse professional backgrounds and most were retired. The club performed across the country, in concert at prestigious halls including the Whiting, as well as hospitals, schools and senior homes. The club has raised more than $50,000 for community projects and in particular, scholarships administered by Mott Community College

Since 1974, the annual “Banjorama” featured a variety of banjo and non-banjo old time entertainment

Flint Banjo Club - The Happy Sounds Of The Flint Banjo Club album cover
Genre:	Folk, World, & Country	
Year:	1978
Track list:
-Alabama Jubilee And Waiting For The Robert E. Lee Medley
-Five Foot Two	
-Sweet Georgia Brown	
-Carolina In The Morning	
-Nobody's Sweetheart, Now	
-Bye Bye Blues	
-Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home	
-The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise	
-Whispering	
-The Pennsylvania Polka	
-A Shanty In Old Shanty Town	
-Battle Hymn Of The Republic	
-Coney Island Washboard	

In Davison town, gold was found,
A banjo club with a joyful sound,
With strings that twang and fingers that fly,
The Flint Banjo Club's tunes filled the sky

For over 50 years, they strummed and played,
Their passion for banjos never did fade,
From six enthusiasts, the club has grown,
To more than 50, a band of their own

Their Banjorama, a yearly delight,
A fundraiser held through the night,
With Picks and Sticks and Mel Collie too,
An evening of music, for me and you

With diverse members and awards galore,
The Flint Banjo Club has a history to adore,
They've raised funds and brought joy,
To many communities, girl and boy

So come one, come all, to Davison town,
And hear the music that won't let you down,
For in the Flint Banjo Club, there's gold to be found,
A treasure of sound, that will astound

https://youtu.be/lGN86Z6QEeU

https://youtu.be/MZ9xl4mdabQ

JTS

GOLD IN THEM HILLS

Gold In Them Hills

Drums & Sitar - The Pharmaceutical Phaggot
@pharmaceutical_phaggot

Bass - Lofi Menta
@user-672449547

Guitar, Lyrics, Vocals & Art - Cosmic Keanu
https://soundcloud.com/cosmic_keanu

Lyrics & Vocals - The Mysterious Decibel
@themysteriousdecibel

Mixed, Mastered, and Screams by Hobocop
@metrocityrecords

Lyrics:

(The Mysterious D.)
Rain falls from the light
The vows of the fox burn bright

(Cosmic K.)
Sun shines as the rain falls
Shadowy forest filled with lights
Silently processing forward
In the trees, flashing bright

Foxfire flicks between realities
Lures unwelcome eyes
If they catch you watching,
best atone --
if you are wise

(The Mysterious D.)
In the land of the rising sun, where legends,
myths and magic is spun
There's a tail of a fox bride
who comes with the rain by her side

(Cosmic K.)
Foxfire flicks between realities
Lures unwelcome eyes
If they catch you watching,
best atone --
if you are wise

(Mysterious D.)
In the land of eternal forest
where the love lies deep in root
If the fox groom sees you looking,
You might meet his overbearing tooth

Kitsune No Yomeiri - (Pharma P / Mysterious D / Cosmic K / Lofi M / Hobocop)

Made with some loops from the inimitable and sorely missed Jens @senfsuck
Catch the rainbow at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuoAeyQEtzI 
Percussion, drum, voice and music loops - Jens
Guitar, bass, keys - Nick

Always keep some senf in your Chuchichäschtli!
Ciao for now!
Be good

Nick

Senf Abuse - senfsuck and Nicholas Ridiculous

The Lunatics proudly present a Lunatics special with Paul Racle aka Paploviante
______ Paploviante on bass - https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle
______©️osmic ®️atzzz - mastermind - magic triangle: drums, piano, everything - https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-ratzzz
______ joerxworx - flute, EWI trombone

G 
1. Si ya todo lo has perdido
D
Si te sientes oprimido,
Em C D
Hay un don de gracia para aquel que cree;
G
No te pongas requisitos,
D
Su perdón es infinito,
Em C Am7 D
Él limpio ya tu delito ¡Sólo cree!
C G
Sale el sol en tu horizonte. (Grita) ¡Libertad!
C D
Ya se anuncia el evangelio (Grita) ¡Sólo cree!
C
La palabra que esperabas,
Em
El regalo que anhelabas,
Am Am7 D
La alegría que soñabas- Libre sé…
C G
Para disfrutar la gracia del Señor,
C D
Sólo disfrutar, Su rostro contemplar,
G C G C G
¡En la libertad! ¡Cree en Él! ¡Libre sé!
C G C
¡Jubileo es!

2. En Sus palabras de gracia,
Nada falta ni escasea,
No hay molestias, miedo, ira o ansiedad;
En el jubileo de gracia,
Nuestras deudas son borradas,
¡Qué felicidad, qué gozo, qué bondad!

3. Cuando Cristo nos atrae,
Cuando Él sólo satisface,
Nuestro Jubileo entonces Cristo es;
Hay satisfacción, reposo,
Libertad, consuelo y gozo,
¡Disfrutando las riquezas del Señor!


🌹🎻🎶🌺🌷☘️🌸🌱🌹🎻🎶



1-If you’ve lost all your possessions
And you’re feeling the oppressions,
There’s a gift of grace to you who would believe; 
There’s no high requirement from you,
Jesus Christ, Whose blood redeemed you,
Is the One who is forgiveness, just receive! 

	There’s good news on your horizon—(Shout) Jubilee!
	There’s a gospel worth announcin’—(Shout) Just believe!
	It’s the word for which you’re waiting,
	It’s a gift worth celebrating,
	Hear the trumpet, how elating—Be set free....
	To enjoy the Lord, receive abundant grace,
	Just enjoy the Lord, behold His shining face,
	In the Jubilee!   
	Just believe!   
	Be set free!   
	In the Jubilee!   

2-Through Christ’s words of grace and mercy,
There’s no shortage, lack, or worry,
Don’t be bothered, vexed, or feel anxiety;
In the Jubilee of grace where
All our debt has been erased there,
We are happy, joyful, filled with ecstasy!

3-When Christ is our satisfaction
And our one unique attraction,
Christ, the Savior, has become our Jubilee;
Everything is satisfying
When in all Christ is supplying
All the riches found in God’s economy!


🌹🎻🎶🌱🌸☘️🌷🌺🌹🎻🎶

Loose Bruce [Demoose]

Al Bob Bidwell