Where do we live, and where do we go, awake or not, and how do we give birth to our true reality?
Composed, arranged, treatments, photograph- dah/ December '21
featuring the synthetic choir

OOOOOOOoooo

Kaleidoscope Shroomy Dreams

Kaleidoscope Shroomy Dreams (collab Gothic Funk)

A little backstory is needed here.

A few years ago I hung up my old guitar for good, having finally lost patience with my own decades-long inability to do any serious practice.  Not long afterwards, one of those things that only ever happens to other people, happened to me, when the nice consultant explained that the source of the pain was a large tumour in my throat.

During the fun and games of treatment over the subsequent months I made a few deals with myself regarding how things would change if we came out of the other side alive and reasonably intact.  One of these was a commitment to getting my old guitar out again and working at it;  the quid pro quo being a new, decent guitar in the event that any signs of progress appeared.  I even held out the hope that I might start scribbling out a few songs again, not having done so for many, many years.

That I now have ever so slightly more than one decent guitar hanging on my wall is not a reflection of the degree of progress, just my tendency to re-interpret the rules of the game sometimes....

A few weeks back, the nice consultant explained that he didn't want me ever to darken his door again as he could see no need to continue the checkups.  For the best of reasons.  

No "All Clear"s in this game of course, just probability curves, a fact sadly demonstrated, also few weeks back, when a very brave lady who was not so fortunate as I, lost her own battle with cancer.  She was Dame Deborah James.  A teacher, who, in the words of her family, shared her experience of cancer to "raise awareness, break down barriers, challenge taboos and change the conversation around cancer.  Even in her most challenging moments, her determination to raise money and awareness was inspiring". 

This is one of the first songs I wrote after picking up the guitar again.  The lyrics are odd in places … that morphine, it lingers in the bloodstream you know.... :) and you may apply to them what metaphors you wish.

I decided to make the quiet, simple, one take, live version of “Genuflection” offered here as a small personal tribute to the bravery of Dame Deborah.  It is far from perfect, but not far from the heart.
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Genuflection

As sensibility subsides, my spirit lies
In shattered fragments, scattered with the roses at my feet.
A plastic destiny confides what was never meant for real;
An unholy desecration that is scarcely incomplete.

A storm-tossed foreign sea, has driven me
To the reef, with smiling Lucifer’s contaminant collusion.
My bloodshot welling eyes offer thin disguise;
Translucent as the glass before my naked self-delusion.

A sleet-swept breeze hit my bright horizons.
I’m on my knees, black moon rising.
Sweet salvation, my long lost friend,
I’m on my knees,… again.

Fractured rainbows hold the storm, heaven-sent;
Kaleidoscopic essence of the life behind the deal.
Enraptured scarecrows take the form of a living testament
To the martyr’s psyche slowly being broken on the wheel.

Earth gathers dry husks as they fall, and Charon calls;
My antimony confidante, gasps breathless at the shore.
The coin I proffer him today secures my solitary way
To the shadow that’s imprisoned me so many times before.

A sleet-swept breeze hit my bright horizons.
I’m on my knees, black moon rising.
Sweet salvation, my long lost friend,
I’m on my knees,… again.

A sleet-swept breeze hit my bright horizons.
I’m on my knees, uncompromising.
Peace of mind? I left him way behind.
I’m on my knees,… again.

Genuflection

'Inside Out And Then Some' is a mid tempo Fusion track.

Inside Out And Then Some

This is a reimagining of the Lee Hazlewood song 'These Boots Are Made For Walking' originally released by Nancy Sinatra in 1965... enjoy!

You've Got Something (So High)

BuggI Remix Vox 3822

https://youtu.be/xnLWOMiO7sk
Born out of experimentation and mainly because Electrometis  https://soundcloud.com/fiona-greasley and M-Drid  https://soundcloud.com/m-drid inspired me to do this: an EDM version of the previous song "Anima Dannata". 

Thank you both....has cost me a night 🤣

🎞️ Video

Anima Dannata | Exclusive Dance Version

Yesterday we lost the world's finest jazz and blues Hammond organ player of all time, Joey DeFrancesco.  Joey simply was a legend , a jazz monster and responsible for the resurgence of the classic Hammond sound in so many settings.  Not only did Joey play the organ better than anyone else did or ever had, but he also was a very fine trumpet and tenor sax player - and no one plays both the trumpet and tenor sax in jazz.  But Joey could, did, sang, created 30 albums under his own name, and brought that soulful sound with simply amazing technical and creative abilities.  Difficult to explain the impact that Joey D had on my music, but it just didn't get any better listening to his playing - was fortunate to have seen him several times, including just a few years ago at the Blue Note.  So I'm reposting this blues I recorded about 5 years ago over a teaching backing track that he released.  All the wonderful comping and trio is his work - I just have the lead on this.  RIP Joey.  Damn

Grooving With Joey D

Out of the Box October 2022
Fruit or vegetable?

Are You A Cake Or Are You A Biscuit?

B-side to the newly released 'Venus Gospel'.

Check it out here:- https://crestofthesyndicate.bandcamp.com/album/venus-gospel

or here:- https://open.spotify.com/album/6GTrvq2yFC3bBdaVbkfcE1?si=ATXGlcoEQkOnCRlE4og8Qg

Venus Gospel

Angels Unaware

AS MY MIND DRIFTS BACK IN TIME
I GO BACK TO BULL MOUNTAIN BRIDGE
WHERE THE BLACK TOP ENDED
AND THE DIRT ROAD STARTED
A PLACE WHERE THE BOYS HUNG OUT

CHORUS
I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO BULL MOUNTAIN BRIDGE
WHERE WE LAUGHTED AND HAD A GREAT TIME
NO CELL PHONES OR LAP TOPS
ON BULL MOUNTAIN BRIDGE
JUST JESSE PLAYING HIS FLAT TOP GUITAR
I MISS THOSE LAZY SUMMER DAYS
ON BULL MOUNTAIN BRIDGE

IT WAS THERE I HAD MY FIRST RACE
WITH GENE AUTRY TAYLOR
IN MY DADDY'S PICK UP TRUCK
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BRIDGE 
STAYED AT THE BRIDGE
THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS
ON BULL MOUNTAIN BRIDGE

REPEAT CHORUS (2 TIMES)

JUST JESSE PLAYING HIS FLAT TOP GUITAR
I MISS THOSE SUMMER DAYS
ON BULL MOUNTAIN BRIDGE

2012 (c) (BMI)

Bull Mountain Bridge (Lyrics by Tony Harris)- Music/Vocal by Bob Pickens Original 2012

PLEASE STOP SENDING ME OFFERS OF MUSIC PROMOTION.
 
AI is not an option I use or intend to in the future. All of my music is composed, played and produced using the following equipment:
Cubase 14 Pro on Windows PC
Arturia instruments (full suite) some FX
Native Instruments - Instruments and FX
Toontracks -Superior Drummer 3 and Percussion
Korg Triton Synth
Roland RD800 Piano
Native Instruments - Komplete Control S49 and S61 keyboards
Icon Mixing desk
Yamaha & KRK active monitors
Congas and various  LA percussion instruments.
Various String libraries including: Spitfire/ IK Multimedia/labs/Orchestral Tools and The Crowhill Co.
Orange Tree Samples - Guitars and Flute
Musiclabs Guitars
Spectrasonics Trilian Basses
Soundpaint: Strings/Brass/Wind/Guitars/Percussion/ and a multitude of other things.
Various FX from a multitude of companies.
Various Programs from the Spitfire Original range
My trusted "Drum Stool"
Fridge (for Guinness)!!!!



Now retired from a life 'on the road' as a freelance keyboard player, I compose and record in my home studio, situated in the Carrick Hills in Southern Scotland. My music is mainly instrumental in nature and is a reflection of my life experience, sometimes real and sometimes imagined.
My influences are many and I have quite probably been shaped by listening to the very many "giants" of music, both players and composers. From classical to contemporary jazz and everything in between. My main instrument is the keyboard, whether that be piano, organ or synth. But I also play banjo, flute and percussion. I have a special relationship'with bass, whether upright or electric and use virtual and synth basses from numerous sources, but mainly Trilian by Spectrasonics.


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Inside Out And Then Some

Alan Hamilton