Beautiful Song. Top voice and I like the lyrics especially!

Nice catchy song....the muse comes to a free mind.

1) Wren & Cuff The Caprid (0:00)
2) Wren & Cuff Garbage Face (0:30)
3) Ronsound Hairpie 75 (1:00)
4) Stomp Under Foot Amhearst Rams Head 76 (1:30)

Intro played into Big Muff with Gain at noon (Bridge Pickup), Solo phrase Gain maxed, Tone at noon (both Pickups), Volume leveled between the pedals (around noon). Played into Ditto Looper, arranged later in Cubase.


Rhythm Gutar played into Tube Works Real Tube, no Big Muff.

Guitar: Jazzmaster Partscaster / Curtis Novak Pickups
Amp: Marshall Plexi 50w Clone
Loadbox: Two Notes Torpedo Captor 
CabSim: Torpedo Wall of Sound - Marshall 4x12
Bass: Preci
Drums: Addictive Drums

Music: Dinosaur Jr. Out There (bpm slowed down to 130), thanks J!!!!

Big Muff Shootout (Dinosaur Jr - Out There)

Hudson Valley by Phenomenon

SONGCATCHER
Copyright 2024 Rinaldo/O'Brien
Music by Whitman Rinaldo; Lyrics by Alex O’Brien 
All Rights Reserved

Whitman Rinaldo: vocals, electric guitar, mixing/mastering
Moe Howard: piano
Chris Fuller: bass

She ran to the river
To try and catch a song
When she got to the river
A voice asked her what was wrong

So she climbed up a mountain
She hoped a song was waiting there
When she climbed up the mountain
A voice whispered in the air

Inspiration is magic
It’s a gift on a breeze
No, don’t worry, you can’t hurry
It will come when your mind is free

So she sat in the silence
No thoughts of gold or fame
When she found her silence
A choir of angels came

Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah
Ah, Ah, Ah

She was met by a choir of angels
Singing her heavenly songs
Healing and making her strong

Inspiration is magic
It’s a gift on a breeze
No, don’t worry, you can’t hurry
It will come when your mind is free
It will come when your mind is free
It will come when your mind is free

RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD: July 17, 2024

Songcatcher

Hielo, Ariel En Bicicleta

Original track. Dean on all guitars and vocals.

LYRICS
Home alone. I'm home alone!!

Party at my best friend's house tonight
Don't think I'll go, it doesn't feel right
All the 'in crowd' are gonna be there
I haven't got any nice threads to wear

I think I'll stay at home... better off alone

I should make an effort, get out on the town
But I like it better no-one else around 
I hear people talk, I got nothing to say
Never meet nobody if I stay this way!

I think I'll stay at home... better off alone

Being reclusive, some say is a curse
But listening to people talk crap 
There's nothing worse!!

...so I'm home alone, home alone...

I think I'll stay at home... better off alone

Home Alone

'facetious feces'

Insecure.
Sins a blur
when you're livin'
in the fast lane.
Feel no pain,
until you come 
crashing down.
Lasting frowns
seem to stick around 
endlessly. 
No retreat,
until you get
high again.
Bliss.
Heaven.
The cycle it
never ends.
Repeat. 
Repent.
Be careful or
you'll be dead.
Catchin' zeds,
stuck in a bed 
permanently. 
Germinate seeds
of love within yourself. 

Crashing down.
Masking frowns
until I get high again.
Will it end?
Or is this just life?

facetious feces

another track from our Musical.  'Audition'

Feeling Good - Lokie

Lyrics: 
never meant for you to always have your way
I just wanted us to somehow find our way
But in the journey, I slowly started to fade
The man you thought you wanted I became

and now, that I’ve awakened
There’s this heart-breaking 
Divide between our reality 
And what we feel inside 

IM NOT THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMS
YOU MAY NEVER REALLY LOVE ME 
ALWAYS WANTING PRINCE CHARMING
AND TO ME THAT’S SO ALARMING
BECAUSE HE DOES NOT EXIST
HE DOES NOT EXIST

I never meant for us to crumble away
I just wanted us to live for today
But in the journey, we started to fade
Loving arms turned into hateful blades

and now, that I’ve awakened
There’s this heart-breaking 
Divide between our reality 
And what we feel inside 

IM NOT THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMS
YOU MAY NEVER REALLY LOVE ME 
ALWAYS WANTING PRINCE CHARMING
AND TO ME THAT’S SO ALARMING
BECAUSE HE DOES NOT EXIST
HE DOES NOT EXIST

Prince Charming Does Not Exist

Didn’t have time to master so this is the first take

Waves

What if every version of you—the brave one, the lost one, the angry one, the lonely one—were given a microphone?

A Monster of Me is a concept album disguised as a confession booth.
Across eleven tracks, Quantum me invites you into a hall of mirrors where each reflection talks back: the shameless self, the coward, the bureaucrat, the purist, the adolescent, the technodeterminist, the extremist, the nostalgist, the nihilist, the ironist… every mask you’ve worn to survive, every voice you’ve buried to stay sane.

Each song is a portrait of a “monster” that isn’t supernatural at all—
just painfully human.
These monsters whisper, argue, seduce, joke, deflect, confess.
Sometimes you root for them;
sometimes you recognise them;
sometimes you realise they’ve been running the show longer than you knew.

But the story doesn’t stay dark.
Woven through glitch-folk, indie-trap, electro-soul, and cinematic pop, the album traces a quiet rebellion: the moment the self stops fracturing and starts forming.
A journey from fragmentation to embodiment.
From masks to skin.

By the time the final track hits, one truth rises above the noise:

We’re all carrying monsters.
But none of them get the last word.

Listen from the beginning, or drop in anywhere—
every track is its own mirror,
and every mirror shows something worth looking at.

THE COWARD

Pilvet mua vie taas

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).

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