Some of you will be familiar with this tune, and indeed it has been modified to include a bit of audio which was the basis of the theme. This bit of audio is the original recording of Stephen around 1982. I had looked for that recording for decades to be included just before the start off this song. Also, most recently I had redoubled my effort to find it to play for my beautiful wife as  she lay on her death bed. But, alas, I was only to find it the very day after her passing.

As you might imagine, the old cassette tape was full of hiss. So, my good friend and mentor, Sander (https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer), volunteered to help subtract that flaw and render Stephen's little voice to crystal clarity. Well, that is very much part of Sander's trademark. Thank you, Sander.

And below follows the original description of the song:


This is a song from a child which has no voice of his own. Having succumbed to the side effects of a childhood vaccination, he was never able to learn the spoken word...though through some miracle he seems to have developed perfect pitch. 

How would I know? Well, if I pick up various objects which can make a tone if they are blown into, though he may have heard it only once before, he will sometimes sing the note as it is being picked up. Blow into that object and, sure enough, he is in tune with it.

He was only about 3 years old when we were trying in vain to get him to speak into a tape recorder. Instead, he came up with this tune, which I decided to just add accompaniment. The original recording actually had his voice on it, but it has been lost over the years.

Stephen's Song (REMIX)

Date de publication: 08/06/2023

Musique, arrangements, claviers: Leia & C.M
Mixage, mastering: C.M

Voix: Leslie

© Leia  S.V & C.M 2023, All Rights Reserved.

Even If We Fight

I hope you enjoy this cover of a song and artist I adore. 
I love the version Adam created and it was so much fun recording the vocals for it! 
Again, it was such a pleasure to work with you, Adam! 

Listen to his beautiful music, he's so very talented: 
https://soundcloud.com/adam4le

picture: https://www.pexels.com/photo/timelapse-photo-of-gray-clouds-896673/
Thanks to Tessa K for sharing this beautiful picture!

What Was I Made For (Billie Eilish cover) collaboration with Adam4le

Microtonal quartet performance for Malloween Festival in celebration of the release of the 3rd album by Mall.Dad.

Watch the complete Malloween Festival here:
www.twitch.tv/videos/2290543539

Listen to Mall.Dad 3 here:
soundcloud.com/mall-dad/sets/malldad-3-sticks-in-the-sticks

Recovery Jam

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT by REGIS MINA 2025

Update: Added Bass & Space pad keys & Piano with 1/8 slow pan delay & more vocal & 2 x Electric guitar runs (one is octave root and fifth mainly and other plays with drop D lower strings)

Lyrics

Multicontinental dreams
Truly new collective pristines
Collection of Earthly souls
Light army where now and future rolls

Togetherness unconditionally
Painting & drawing & playing that free
Loving & laughing.
It's child's play really
Using our eyes together musically

More we see
We torched some dark
In ourselves we found some lark
Somehow, our insides came out to play
It needed nothing from past,
Nor unknown future
Just today
Just today
The pangea way
Today pangea way

Multicontinental scenes
Pangea is back
Human unity dreams
Solidarity, Kinship, Oneness, Now!
Let's do this right,
Let's do it for the cow

War will remains.
Our negative shoots
Our lights shine refrain,
We are floral real boots
Repellent humans won't find future ways
All war will be blinded by our light someday

More will see
They'll torch that dark
As they burn their neighbours
They mute their lark...
Still, real larks sing in-spite of oppression
With beautiful birds we baring that progression
Real larks sing in the face of aggression
As beautiful birds we baring progression

It's truly free
A better Pangea day
It's you and me
Together really

Pangea (DAW RAW)

True story from this year, recorded live at Huddersfield Friday night (23/5/2025) if you enjoy this song give it some love and if you got instagram come over give me a follow, join the broadcast channel to stay upto date

Gulls Eat What Now?

Deux (2008)

QUIET AT NIGHT
Copyright 2025 Rand/O'Brien/Haag/nick D/Pansard/Howard
Music by Peter Rand, Bruce Haag, nick D, Philippe Pansard, Moe Howard
Lyrics by Alex O’Brien, SOCAN 
All Rights Reserved

Peter Rand: guitars
Bruce Haag: vocals & backing vocals
nick D: drums & percussion; mixing & mastering
Philippe Pansard: bass
Moe Howard: piano; synth

Please let there be quiet at night
Please let there be quiet at night

Fussing and fighting
Like thunder and lightning
It really is frightening
For a child just ten years old
I lie and I listen
There’s no use in wishing
Cos they’ll keep on dishing
Anger all night long

Fight after fight after fight after fight
It’s all I can manage to get through the night
For all of my, all of my, all of my life
I lie awake praying for quiet at night

The subject don’t matter
And there’s seldom laughter
And no kisses after
Just silence and tears
The dishes a flying
My mother a crying
And me just dying
For them to make peace

Fight after fight after fight after fight
It’s all I can manage to get through the night
For all of my, all of my, all of my life
I lie awake praying for quiet at night
Quiet at night
Quiet at night

I love you mother
I love you father
And God won’t you stop
All the screaming and hate

I lie awake praying for quiet at night
I lie awake praying for quiet at night
Oh quiet at night
Please let there be quiet at night

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: June 6, 2025

Quiet at Night

Another nice Collab with my Friend Joerxworx on Trumpet EWI.
Big Thanks my Friend
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

lunatics 233 / I Feel Your Love / Joerxworx & Ratzzz

Out of My Mind

To celebrate 2000, I took a year off to write songs, novels, plays, and stories - and I've been doing that since. At the end of my first year, I won first prize in the USA Songwriting Contest in the Lyric Category for 'Drum Machines and Beauty Queens.' This led to co-writing songs with many excellent musicians, including those represented in songs posted here. 

More recently, I was one of seven finalists in the Crisis Lyric Category of the 2021 UK Songwriting Contest for 'Lockdown Blues,' and one of nine nominees in the 2021 International Song Awards with 'Didn't the River Know' and 'Blue and Gold.'

For the past two years, I've been collaborating with many talented musicians on Kompoz. I release many of these songs here and compile the best into albums released under Captain Stormfield's Trip on Spotify and other platforms (see links below).

Quiet at Night

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