The main has such a great retro feel to it, resL

Opened my mind so widely, it split in two. Now all I can actually pronounce is Amen. Worried.

Cool vocals 🎶 And stylish guitar playing ✨

IN EINEM VERLASSENEN ZIMMER  feat. FELIX HOFFMANN  Lyrics by GEORG TRAKL

Here is a link to the youtube video for the song! https://youtu.be/sXd5B2iSWck
I looked back at the few notes I collected during this Photo Op's song development time-frame and concluded I did not have much to go on after a two year lapse.  The lyrics were not fully documented in my notebook. I must have been using lyric ideas and ad-libbing them into the song. I do not know my state of mind and wish I was better at capturing this closer to the song's conception point.

Life was still fairly locked down due to Covid, Trump was still in-office and the George Floyd protests were ongoing. The song was created without any direct outside musical influence driving the creative direction. This was me inside my studio starting from ground zero and evolving the song over the course of probably several weekends by playing around with sounds, rhythms and textures until a fuzzy shape of cohesion slowly emerged.

Listening back, I suspect, I smashed together two fairly divergent musical ideas. Bold move Dave and perhaps disastrous from a song gluing perspective. I like it anyway. Lyrics were influenced by what was going on around me and one of those things was a narcissist clutching a bible and clearing a peaceful protest with tear gas to enable his next photo op in front of the church.  A holy moment indeed. 

Lyrics
Photo Op
by David Husted

Dew drop dreams
Silly games
Buy some more stuff
Throw it away
Is it me?
Where did I go?
When we turn our backs
let them take it away.

They say it's gonna rain again
I don’t have an umbrella
They say its time to hate again
Photo ops and killing

Is it really so improbable?
State news and oligarchs selling fools
Make lies a game, and fear predominant 
Shake the base of our democracy

Photo Op

The Sanctuary

Queen Of My Castle - Piano version

Music written by Val Akey and Kontra Sz. Val Akey: drums, bass, keys programming in DAW (mix and master). Kontra Sz plays all the guitars.
Many thanks Val Akey for the succesful contribution!!! It took long but it is worth it! Please visit: @valakey
Release date: 18 November 2022

If you'd like to watch the video, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqZ2lc2GHQ4 I appreciate any reaction.

Slow River (Val Akey & Kontra Sz collab)

A visit to the 'Champs Elysees' of the Bronx - and thanks to the O'Jays for the memories (and chorus).

I love music

Ultra vivid dream (dub remix)

I recorded first guitar about one year ago and now I decided to add second one. This is rather my own interpretation than cover but maybe someone like it.
Video can be watched here;
https://youtu.be/JiBf0CuHoNA
Greetings!

Epitaph, King Crimson, sort of instrumental cover

Powderfinger

Music by Stina Crow
piano/mix/vocals/music/instrumentals/composer and producer

Existence

but soft
see she tends now
her basket of dreams
be they dead dark in mystery
buried in shade
see how she tends now – her basket of dreams

see how she breathes now, her basket of dreams
singing softly sing sweetly - caress ever deeply
see how she breathes now
her basket of dreams

see how she calls to her basket of dreams
at first soft in awakening – barriers breakenning
layer upon layer upon mistake upon stake again
calls to her basket of dreams…

[Picture by Amanda Cass]
Video by Emma:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Rtf3mVfvA&t=14s
Drawn with charcoal and pastel, turned into song and then mixed all about. Made by Emma

basket of dreams...

The GrOOvebOx is an "ideas and support" collective
with no specific genre barriers, just alternative open minds.

Please click link for lyrics and further information about this track,
and if you like it here, please "like" it there as well : 
https://soundcloud.com/david-stephenson/neverendinglessness-preacher-version

David Stephenson - Open Your Mind (Preacher Version)

The GrOOvebOx is an "ideas and support" collective with no specific genre barriers, 
just alternative open minds.

David Stephenson - Open Your Mind (Preacher Version)

Alternative GrOOvebOx

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